In an absolute perspective, Security and Freedom are mutually incompatible. To take into account all perspectives to maximize both Freedom and Security requires much more information than a single person can amass, and assessment that would take a person many lifetimes to be just.

But critical information and dangerous conditions occur each day, sometimes within minutes of each other. Automated systems can collect and process information at great speeds, but a large ethical group of intelligent persons needs to create the automated keys for unlocking relationships related to balancing Freedoms with Security.

Because of the necessity for the NSA to be shielded from direct public scrutiny, a large ethical group of State elected delegates shall dedicate their resources for the preservation of our Freedoms while creating and defining rules by which the NSA can collect, assess, and create directives to provide for our Security.

To maintain equitable representation of all peoples, each State shall publicly elect an Oversight of NSA Ethics (ONE) delegate paralleling each elected Congressman and Senator position; but having no affiliation.

The Constitution for each State shall act as the basis for ethical perspective of each delegate.

The requirements for election as a ONE delegate are:

shall be a certified doctor from a nationally accredited school

shall have published a paper related to ethics in a nationally distributed journal

shall be a permanent resident of that State

shall pass uniform but unique tests related to Ethics, Critical Reasoning, probability, and statistics

shall be free of a felony record

shall not be strongly biased regarding any special interests

shall be willing to be monitored continuously while in office

shall forever be disallowed from ever discussing any information formulated or witnessed while in office

shall submit themselves for lie detection and questioning periodically to prevent outside influence by any special interest

The delegates shall be relocated to the surroundings near the NSA and will be furnished Government owned housing while in office. Physical security for the delegates shall consist of NSA surveillance with an armed NSA controlled security force to control any attempt to access or disproportionately influence the delegate or their family.

Each delegate shall have a two person staff at the NSA and a two person staff in their home State to monitor, collect, and research information.

Each State shall have one highly trained field agent for each delegate for that State whom shall collectively implement any directives from the NSA.

All work surrounding NSA data collection shall be done in a secure vault.

Absolutely no raw data or interest specific data or interest specific directives shall ever leave the vault under penalty of treason related to all intentionally involved.

No interest specific data or interest specific directive shall be propagated outside of the confines of the NSA by delegate staff or agents under penalty of racketeering.

The NSA shall devise and maintain a relational database to allow delegates to productively relate all measure and kind of ethical issue to the vast amounts of information collected by the NSA.

The delegates shall formulate "Automated Directives" for automatically: flagging potentially destructive relationships, developing priorities, developing issued directives to field agents, monitor metrics to verify results, track long term effects and related relationships, provide for a continuously updated score related to the qualities related to our freedoms and security at that moment in time, and provide simulations for anticipating the effects of issuing a proposed directive and how it affects the freedoms and security scores.

The creation of directives shall solely be governed by the ONE Committee. The President, Congress, the House, the Military, nor any other special interest group shall ever have any influence over the creation of directives. Any attempt to do so outside of approved channels shall be considered treason within the confines of the NSA, and racketeering otherwise, and all involved shall share the same fate, regardless of political standing or financial backing.

Because the positions of the delegates are elected positions. Data would be provided by the NSA which tracks the number of hours each delegate actively performed research, the influence each delegate had on the overall freedom and security qualities, and the core generalized formulas for creating the Automated Directives would be publicly disclosed but would not relate delegate involvement nor the data or type of data that they relate. Each delegate would be allowed to create public announcements that do not violate that which is outlined above.

Collectively, the ONE delegates shall determine the information necessary to guide the President, Congress, Senate, and the Military. The President, Congress, Senate, and the Military will have continuous one-way input into the NSA as part of NSA data collection, without warrant, the feedback will be immediate, so there is no need for any political party or military component to have dialog with ONE delegates or the NSA data collection and assessment systems.

Every political representative in America will be able to send their viewpoints to the NSA just by sending an email to a NSA server. They will only get an automated response, but their views will be collected and processed automatically by the data collection system. The same applies for all citizens of the United States. All persons in the United States shall have representation and voice.

Under this system, the NSA shall, without restriction, collect and assess all information as practically possible worldwide, without the need for warrant.

Although the President now claims he has a plan to modify the surveillance program, he still asserts he has the authority to violate the law when he sees fit and can return to warrant-less surveillance at any moment. This does not provide the representation or mental intellect necessary to ethically balance security with our innate rights and freedoms.

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