"Matthew M. Aid" is an American military historian and author. He is working on signal intelligence and the history of the National Security Agency.

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NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The contractors are guilty of promising the moon and not delivering. And Congress is guilty for failing to oversee it from beginning to end.

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The image of NSA has been muddied considerably by this revelation.

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Usually you can point the finger at the consumers of intel ... the political and military leaders.

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If anything, things have gotten worse.

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Rather than come clean about their mistake, they helped launch the United States into a bloody war that would last for 10 years.

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All the NSA people I've talked to think domestic surveillance is anathema.

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I am told that he rejected the request ... because of the sensitivity of the material for a political reason.

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This material is relevant to debates we as Americans are having about the war in Iraq and intelligence reform, ... To keep it classified simply because it might embarrass the agency is wrong.

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Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent.

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