NSA's In-House Ethicist

[NobleSavage]

...the NSA asked its workforce in a memo soliciting applications for an in-house ethicist who would write a philosophically minded column about signals intelligence. The column, which would be posted on a classified network at the NSA, should be absorbing and original, the memo said, asking applicants to submit a sample to show they had what it takes to be the “Socrates of SIGINT.”

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/11/surveillance-philosopher-nsa/

I'd call this rationalizing.

 

[barbos]

...the NSA asked its workforce in a memo soliciting applications for an in-house ethicist who would write a philosophically minded column about signals intelligence. The column, which would be posted on a classified network at the NSA, should be absorbing and original, the memo said, asking applicants to submit a sample to show they had what it takes to be the “Socrates of SIGINT.”

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/11/surveillance-philosopher-nsa/

I'd call this rationalizing.

Edward Snowden should apply

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Funny that a spying organization would refer to someone who admitted they knew nothing, and was comfortable with it.