So about that gargantuan new facility the NSA built . . .

[snot]

If the Obama admin adopts the recs of the NSA spying commission (a big if, judging by Obama's slowness in embracing them), the NSA won't any longer be needing that gargantuan new facility they built, will they?

Which kind of brings up the question of, assuming we didn't know of and approve of their massive over-reaching before, why did we think they needed this massive new facility, again?

And so if the Obama admin adopts the recs of the NSA spying commission, is the NSA going to transfer that facility to AT&T? Because the NSA won't be needing it, will they?

[TreasonousBastard]

1. It's just the thing for Google and Amazon.

[merrily]

2. There's always the private contractors.

As big as the Utah facility is, it was never intended to house all the operations.

[Android3.14]

3. Of course the NSA will still need it.

The NSA will just agree to stop doing it and do it anyway. The only thing that will work on with this situation is court action and sustained criticism from the masses.

[woo me with science]

4. They sure are not going to just walk away...

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I predict manipulations, faux "reforms," and eventually a big "FU, we're doing it anyway."

[Recursion]

5. Since it was intended to provide cloud services for other government agencies...

... they will still want it.

[woo me with science]

6. They will still WANT it for spying. nt

[Recursion]

7. The lack of it hasn't been hampering them

I don't see how it would help them to spy; they need distributed facilities for that.

But, anyways, no: they actually want it to provide cloud services, because that's something else the NSA does.

[woo me with science]

8. LOL. "I don't see how it would help them to spy."

From the full-time poster who also repeatedly claims they haven't really been spying on us anyway....

Carry on with the absurd advertisements. Just know that the propaganda, at this point, is as credible as a Nigerian scam letter and not nearly as entertaining.

[Recursion]

9. You apparently missed my "this one is really serious" conversion

about the NSA's tap on the internal networks of providers.

Anyways, if you want to explain how this makes spying easier for them than it already is, go for it. Also how they'll provide the cloud services they're tasked with rolling out, if they use this for something else.