Companies/institution
NSA
2017-03-28, 1 mention2018-11-09, 1 mention2019-02-09, 2 mentions2019-07-21, 1 mention2020-07-05, 1 mention2020-11-15, 1 mention2022-01-29, 1 mention2024-11-16, 1 mention2025-02-27, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He mostly uses the NSA as a punchline for the assumption that everyone is already being surveilled, tossing off lines like "the NSA loves that you do it" or joking that "the NSA is listening to this podcast right now" 59:01 31:42. In guest-driven segments it gets folded into a larger, more serious picture of surveillance infrastructure — DARPA's shelved programs migrating to NSA and DHS, or NSA computers running privatized intelligence contractors — where he takes the critical framing at face value 1:03:30 43:24 37:05. There's no separate argument about the agency itself; it's shorthand for the surveillance state generally, deployed as a joke or absorbed from whoever he's talking to 51:35.
Every Reference (10)
"call it main justice. They have people covering the CIA and the NSA and so on. Now, the way things come out is because the guy covering"
Double, Triple, and Quadruple Agents: The January 2017 Ukraine Peace Plan Meeting — Boss of Bosses (with Russ Baker)+113s into the segment"The outrage. Yeah. People, when the NSA back in the 2005, came out, they were bugging people. And I get"
Trump as the Monster at the End of the Horror Movie — America's Election Headquarters+3s into the segment"there's no way after you know over a decade of of this thing being live, of Tor being a live thing that the CIA or the NSA or the FBI hasn't figured out how to properly and adequately track users of this software."
"skills. Yeah. To answer the first part of your question, when the NSA or the NSA does this more than any other intelligence group or department,"
How Governments Actually Recruit Hackers, and Cicada 3301 — I Am The One Who Dox+89s into the segment"do face app you don't have to do it you don't have to do it the NSA loves that you do it now you're only do you're probably were in"
"which by the way is running on a bunch of Pentagon computers CIA NSA computers just like Juliet was and it's no coincidence I think that"
The Maxwell Twins, Magellan, and 9/11 Software Contracts — #207 - Whitney Webb Returns | The Tim Dillon Show+310s into the segment"programs got divided up and went to different agencies like the nsa and dhs and all of this and now under the guise of coronavirus a"
The World Economic Forum's "You'll Own Nothing" 2030 Article — #226 - Whitney Webb #3 | The Tim Dillon Show+298s into the segment"cancer from having clouds now a lot of it's mit yeah because well nsa is at mit right but a lot of those um cia recruits out of um what"
American University's CIA and Chemical Warfare History — #285 - Tim Dillon VS Substack | The Tim Dillon Show+35s into the segment"became the CIA um the FBI is very powerful the CIA is powerful and the NSA is listening to this podcast right now and hopefully enjoying"
"National intellig Intelligence which has everything everybody's got NSA it's got the they can look into your phones they know everything"
The Deep State as the Praetorian Guard — Steve Bannon Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #433+27s into the segment