Agency officials insist that if Mr. Snowden had been working from N.S.A. headquarters at Fort Meade, Md., which was equipped with monitors designed to detect when a huge volume of data was being accessed and downloaded, he almost certainly would have been caught.
This, to me, is the most laughable and amazing part of the article. How did they think they had any security at all if this was the case?
"He would have been caught, if he had done it right in front of us!"
Actually, he is claiming they cannot do this. How, exactly, would we verify this claim? I'm sure he would have made the claim that Snowden could not have done something like this before Snowden did it.
This, to me, is the most laughable and amazing part of the article. How did they think they had any security at all if this was the case?
"He would have been caught, if he had done it right in front of us!"