For many years, the East German Stasi was viewed as the most totalitarian of intelligence services, relentlessly spying on its citizens during the Cold War. But the Stasi’s capabilities pale in comparison to what the NSA can now do, notes former U.S. intelligence analyst Elizabeth Murray.Edward Snowden is not the only analyst that saw what was happening and viewed it as the erosion of constitutional democracy in the US and UK.
Consortium News
Examining the Stasi, Seeing the NSA [and MI5]
Elizabeth Murray | formerly Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the National Intelligence Council before retiring after a 27-year career in the U.S. government. She is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
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