Ever since the attack on New York in
2001, the NSA has made it their primary goal to protect the country from future
terrorist attacks, but in recent events the NSA has been spying on US citizens
and citizens of other countries. The trial of the NSA’s actions is still
going on to this day, but there has been some movement in the past where “a
federal judge ruled that part of its collection program is likely
unconstitutional” (“Task Force Calls for New NSA Limits” 1). The NSA should
own up to their actions, so that they can go back to looking for terrorists and
truly protecting the country. With that said, the NSA should be getting
limited access to an average citizen’s information, and should need special
clearance to access a person’s information that has been suspected of being a
threat. In recent events, the NSA was ordered by President Obama to
monitor German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone calls, found by a German
magazine called “Der Spiegel, claiming the U.S. spy agency has monitored
Merkel’s phone since 2002, or even before she rose to her country’s chief
executive position and was only an opposition leader” (“Obama knew of NSA
spying on Merkel and approved it, report says” 1). President Obama has
been seeking for the country’s respect and trust within his decisions towards
other matters that highly involve US citizens, but with his actions involving
the NSA, he shows that he isn’t capable to handling these situations. In
the story of Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe describes that the
main character, Okonkwo, who was a highly respected tribesman, accidentally
shot Ogbuefi’s sixteen year old son during Ogbuefi Ezeudu’s funeral. For that,
he was exiled and all of the power and respect he built was lost due to an
avoidable accident. The National Security Agency was created to operate
in counterintelligence on US soil, in other words, to locate potential threats
to the US population, but they are illegally accessing information which does
not earn the country’s respect.Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Anchor, 1994. Print.
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