The stuff they pulled should never have been removed. Some of it is mundane and some of it is outright ridiculous.

This isn’t the first instance I’ve run into where intelligence agencies and the Pentagon and other government agencies have used classification to cover up faux pas. It just galled me.

If anything, things have gotten worse.

The image of NSA has been muddied considerably by this revelation.

This material is relevant to debates we as Americans are having about the war in Iraq and intelligence reform, … To keep it classified simply because it might embarrass the agency is wrong.

NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The contractors are guilty of promising the moon and not delivering. And Congress is guilty for...

The (communications) intercepts from NSA were the ultimate proof that an attack had taken place on August 4

Usually you can point the finger at the consumers of intel … the political and military leaders

Rather than come clean about their mistake, they helped launch the United States into a bloody war that would last for 10 years,

I am told that he rejected the request … because of the sensitivity of the material for a political reason.

Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent.

All the NSA people I’ve talked to think domestic surveillance is anathema.

It’s a form of censorship in its crudest and rudest form.