AFGSC (formerly Strategic Air Command)'s job is to provide a credible nuclear deterrent while not losing nukes or irradiating Americans.
Let's imagine if the NSA were in charge of the nukes:
- "Whoops, someone stole a bunch of our nukes. But those were old nukes—we have better nukes now."
- "Whoops, turns out we were nuking American cities. But Congressional oversight committees knew about it."
Seriously, I can't even facepalm hard enough. I guess security is hard—everyone's annoyed with you until there's an attack and then everyone's blaming you for not annoying them more to prevent it.
>These documents provide further evidence that the NSA has consistently been unable to operate the call detail record program within the bounds of the law. -ACLU
>NSA identified additional data integrity and compliance concerns… The issues have been addressed and reported to congressional oversight committees. -NSA spokesperson