How Can The NSA Be Reformed When Not One Official Has Been Fired Or Punished Since The NSA Surveillance Scandal Broke Out?

To Reform The NSA, Fire Officials Who Lie -- The Guardian

I saw this at first hand over the Pentagon Papers case: the NSA has a culture of lying. That should be Obama's first concern

The NSA has lied to the Congress, the courts, and perhaps even to the president himself, but no one seems to care.

The Director of National Intelligence James R Clapper admitted he lied to Congress about the NSA metadata collection program. He said the NSA had no such program – and then added that that was the least "untruthful" remark he could make. General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, lied in 2012 that the NSA does not hold data on US citizens, and repeated similar misstatements, under oath, to Congress about the program:

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My Comment: It is very revealing that not one NSA and/or intelligence official has been fired or punished since these NSA revelations and leaks broke out. That in itself reveals to me the power and influence that the U.S. intelligence community has on the U.S. political scene .... and how important it is to Washington that the NSA continues doing the work that it has been doing for decades.