NSA "accidentally" spied on us

So yeah, I'm not entirely sure how the world's most powerful spy agency accidentally manages to spy on its own citizens.

Apparently the NSA installed permanent cookies on the computers of those people who visited their website. These cookies monitored what sites were subsequently visited. What's the NSA's first excuse?

"Don Weber, an NSA spokesman, said in a statement Wednesday that the cookie use resulted from a recent software upgrade. Normally, the site uses temporary, permissible cookies that are automatically deleted when users close their Web browsers, he said, but the software in use shipped with persistent cookies already on.

"After being tipped to the issue, we immediately disabled the cookies," he said."

So first, they ask us to believe that the spy masterminds responsible for protecting our nation got confused by some pre-packaged software. Who the hell would inadvertently slip those kinds of cookies into NSA's software anyway? So basically we're supposed to either believe that:

-The NSA is a pack of idiots
-Our government thinks we're sheep

Either way... yeah, America's safe.

But it's not done! After offering that explanation, Mr. Don Weber then gives a different explanation to the incident, saying:

it was strictly to improve the surfing experience "and not to collect personal user data."

So... this cookie that you spooks didn't know you were giving everyone was actually intended by you same, unaware spooks for benign purposes. And, you know, spam is just letting us know about Viagra and breast enlargement, just in case we weren't yet aware.

So with all this bungling, I'm left to wonder only one thing: DID BUSH APPOINT BORIS FUCKING BADANOV AS THE NEW NSA CHIEF, OR WHAT? This is probably the lamest crock of bullshit put out by any level of government since the lines "they hate our freedom" and "we had to destroy the village to save it." Either way, I think that in response to this idiocy, the official LP mascot should be a moose... or a squirrel.