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NSA employees received talking points for Thanksgiving dinner

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If a politically-charged dinnertime debate sidelined your Thanksgiving, don’t blame the National Security Agency. New documents have surfaced suggesting the NSA sent their employees home for the holidays with pre-determined talking points.Kevin Gosztola of Firedoglake published a document on Monday that was allegedly handed out to employees of the intelligence agency ahead of Thanksgiving to ensure embattled staffers would stand their ground if family members or friends berated them about the ongoing surveillance scandal started six months ago by contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The first of a series of classified documents were disclosed by Snowden all the way back in June, and a steady stream of leaks has ensured that the US government’s top-secret surveillance operations haven’t gone unreported in the months since. In a document dated November 22, NSA employees and staffers of the Central Security Service (CSS) are presented with a laundry-list of items to share with loved ones this holiday season who might want to learn more about the most interesting federal agency of the year.
“NSA’s mission is of great value to the nation,” reads the first bullet point on a list of items cleared by the government “employees are authorizes to share . . . with family and close friends.”


The documents goes on to list over the course of two pages a number of factors that could brought up in conversation to remind others that the NSA is far from the most sinister organization in the world, even after revelations made possible through Snowden’s leaks have spawn a firestorm of criticism at the US intelligence community from seemingly all corners of the globe.
Elsewhere the document reminds staffers that the “NSA performs its mission the right way — lawful, complaint and in a way that protects civil liberties and privacy,” and that that mission is performed “exceptionally well.”
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Read more @: http://rt.com/usa/nsa-thanksgiving-talking-points-617/

Remember, when you go home and you work for the NSA and family wants to talk politics dont forget the talking points we will be delivering for you
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Read more @: http://rt.com/usa/nsa-thanksgiving-talking-points-617/

Remember, when you go home and you work for the NSA and family wants to talk politics dont forget the talking points we will be delivering for you [/FONT][/COLOR]
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Ok but really so what?

The NSA employees thousands I doubt that they were all concerned about what to discuss at thanksgiving.

They ate, watched football, enjoyed the company of loved ones etc.

I think the only relevant lesson is for the government ot learn that no one gives a damn about government when at home with family
 
It seems more like it's a guideline on what employees can tell their families than some kind of propaganda that they're supposed to bring up.
 
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