When the NSA came recruiting at a University of Wisconsin language program, the students and teachers pushed back, hard. The transcribed recording of their discussion is a model for the dialog that we should be having with our spooks everywhere we encounter them: "So, 'adversary' is basically what any of your so-called 'customers' as you call them — which is also a strange term to use for a government agency — decide if anybody wants, any part of the government wants something about some country, suddenly they are now internally considered or termed an 'adversary.' That's what you seem to be saying."
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