This passage from a Tuesday Wall Street Journal article on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) eavesdropping on the phone calls of friendly foreign leaders could come from the files of Franz Kafka:
“The agency has been rebuked repeatedly by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for misrepresenting the nature of its spy programs and for violating the court’s confidential orders. In its defense, NSA officials have said the agency didn’t understand its own programs well enough to describe them accurately to the court.”
In September, 2009 Atlantic Monthly named 
