CSA Summit 2014: NSA Surveillance a Pre-cursor to Police State, Says Former US Cyber Czar
Clarke noted one of the major problems with the NSA’s data collection efforts was a lack of specific guidance by policy makers. He said the review group found “there was a complete disconnect between policy makers' desire to collect information, and those who actually collect it. The NSA followed the letter of the law, he concluded, but due to a lack of specific guidance, it ended up collecting more data than it may have needed. “Policy makers”, he asserted “need to be specific about what in intelligence they want and need, and what should be collected.”