[48469] in Cypherpunks
Re: Downsizing the NSA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tighe)
Mon Jan 29 10:04:46 1996
From: Mike Tighe <tighe@spectrum.titan.com>
To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 09:03:02 -0600 (CST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: tighe@spectrum.titan.com
In-Reply-To: <ad3075d502021004640c@[205.199.118.202]> from "Timothy C. May" at Jan 28, 96 02:04:52 am
Timothy C. May writes:
>AT&T is downsizing, IBM downsized a while back, so why couldn't the NSA
>just do the right thing: admit that the Soviet threat is no more,
>congratulate the victors, and downsize by 20,000 employees?
They have been downsizing for almost 4 years now. Not just people, but
budget and mission priorities too. I would imagine they are smaller now
than they were in 1980.
