The NSA surveillance agency is living in a complete bubble, researcher Madiha Tahir told RT. Tahir stirred up quite a storm when she confronted a couple of NSA recruitment agents who showed up at the University of Wisconsin in early July.

The grad students and members of a local high school class debated the National Security Agency (NSA) representatives on the meaning of the word "adversary" in regard to NSA surveillance targeting the US allies in Europe - in particular Germany - the legality of the NSA’s global data collection programs and misinformation about the NSA activities presented by the agency’s bosses to the American and international communities.

The agents that came to the University of Wisconsin seemed to be “entirely unprepared” to answer “basic questions” posed by potential employees, said Madiha Tahir, a PhD candidate at Columbia University currently attending a language program at the University of Wisconsin.


Madiha Tahir

“It is fixed to the bubble the intelligence community lives in. They are so disengaged that they think that they don’t actually have to answer any questions when they go out recruiting,” Tahir said. “They have never had to actually justify or even critically think about the work they are engaged in. They simply did not know how to answer the basic questions about the nature of their work,” she said.

The claim of the NSA recruiters that their agency is an “apolitical organization that fulfills requests sent to it by other departments” appeared as if they were trying to hide behind “I’m only doing my job” excuse “which is not a defense at all,” Tahir shared with RT.

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