NSA FAILED - ISIS Tweets

[THE MASTER OF HIS LIFE]

http://qz.com/221981/a-rebel-army-in-iraq-is-putting-corporate-social-media-mavens-to-shame/

 

 

The article on quartz features a few graphs that provide information on the number tweets and web traffic, as well as a summary of the issue.

 

 

UPDATE: Just to show internet footprints that the U.S government would be interested in; plus the NSA deals with internal threats ( mostly)

[Scionyde]

Wait, what does this have to do with the NSA, exactly?

[AustinKZombie]

^^ exactly

[THE MASTER OF HIS LIFE]

Wait, what does this have to do with the NSA, exactly?

They monitor everything , they prefer to gather information for the sake of national security. The threat was literally in plain sight...on twitter...which they have rodent hoard tendencies towards...

[flibberdipper]

Yeah... What does the NSA have to do with this?

[yurihellsing]

THE TECHNOLOGY OF PEACE!!!!!

 

not sure how many people will get that...

[Real_PhillBert]

They monitor everything , they prefer to gather information for the sake of national security. The threat was literally in plain sight...on twitter...which they have rodent hoard tendencies towards...

 

I hate the overreach of the US government as much as the next guy, but the National Security Agency is tasked with threats to the national security from within the US. Iraqi conflicts fall pretty far outside those bounds.

[THE MASTER OF HIS LIFE]

I hate the overreach of the US government as much as the next guy, but the National Security Agency is tasked with threats to the national security from within the US. Iraqi conflicts fall pretty far outside those bounds.

Yeah...I forgot about that ..., on the flip side we could say the U.S isn't trying to stick their noise to everyone's business as often as a result of this?

[Scionyde]

Yeah...I forgot about that ..., on the flip side we could say the U.S isn't trying to stick their noise to everyone's business as often as a result of this?

 

I think up until the invasions happened, the ISIS twitter account was just one of another dozen terrorist social media accounts - writing about jihad against the west, killing Shi'ites, and posting selfies of their sweet new turbans and beards.

 

I imagine the NSA was aware of ISIS and of their increased activity prior to the invasions, but were unsure of the specifics of the attacks. Either way, the current political climate doesn't really lend itself toward explicit intervention in the Middle East. At best, they could only have warned the Iraqi military that an attack was coming, but as the last couple weeks have shown, the new Iraqi military isn't terribly effective.