"The NSA does NOT spy on Americans!"

From a comment left by "dbervin" under this post:

The NSA cares about the rights of Americans...The NSA cares about the Constitution of the United States.

Please go and read his entire comment.  If you wish to respond, Examiner.com now uses Disqus to do that.

I do have some questions for Mr. Ervin that are independent of the Snowden debate: 

How can you know what you claim unless you are employed by NSA in a top slot?  If so, how long have you worked there, what is your position, and what is your security clearance level to convince us you have visibility on what decisions are made at the top and coordinated with the administration and other departments/agencies?  If you're not situated near the top, with top secret clearances and a need to know about such things, how can you know you're in the loop and thus presume to give any assurances?

Assuming such decisions are classified, wouldn't your telling everyone what is and is not looked at, if true, actually be of interest to true enemies and thus harmful to the "mission" and to national security?

Here's the thing though -- I see from a past comment over at The Captain's Journal, Ervin claims "I work indirectly for a US organization."  Whether that means he has the visibility and clearances to be making definitive proclamations is unknown, but leading with that statement means he is claiming special inside baseball knowledge beyond the ken of us mundanes.

I've seen he's also been posting NSA apologia all over the place--at WRSA and Cold Fury and other places... so he's obviously a man with a mission, self-appointed or otherwise.