The National Security Agency #NSA

Behind the Scenes at the National Security Agency

 #NSA 

   With so much hoopla about NSA stemming from Eric Snowden scandals it is important to consider the realities of our National Security Issues and understand the decision making of other NSA contractors.  I don't want to expose the identity; however, I've had the opportunity to work closely with an NSA contractor and he recently surprised me by his candid stories about his work.  Their assignment was to help an elderly woman, that in her senility was constantly placing her life peril by engaging in high risk activities.  Presumably the constant calls to the fire department or police department and emergency response calls required a change in strategy and closer monitoring.  The NSA as a result contracted our unnamed hero to place sensors throughout her house to warn her when she was engaging in high risk activities.  

    What they saw was a mess, an old woman barely able to care for herself, in constant depression, unwilling to move into a retirement home.  While the NSA member was supposed to avoid intervening, as a matter of science, the subject was obviously in severe distress and so the care was made to be sure she was comfortable.  Depressed by the news and what she called, "Warfare and Propaganda," he had her write out her hundred favorite movies of all time and picked them up for her so that they played on a loop on her tv.  Seeing that she would buy water, then not remember that it was new and throw it out assuming their were bacteria growing in it, he bought her a particular top that could be opened and closed to keep the water fresh and ease her anxiety over whether the water was drinkable.  He helped work with her on improving her diet to be sure she remembered to eat healthy.  They also of course were able to monitor and notify her to stop, when she was doing something high risk over by the stairs.  

   Its these types of stories from the NSA that we do not here enough.  Its these type of stories that remind us that their are good intelligent people out there they may know a lot about us and have technologies to know what we are doing, that are not going to use them for evil and malfease.  So the key to NSA is finding the individuals that are capable of such care, such compassion and concern for society and as a Democratic Republic, to hire, empower and promote such individuals within our Government Structures.