NSA Chief Gen. Keith Alexander gave a long interview today with the Pentagon’s “Armed With Science” blog, calling on the world to find some way to stop international media outlets from reporting about his agency’s surveillance programs based on leaked documents.
“We ought to come up with a way of stopping it. I don’t know how to do that,” Alexander insisted, saying that the ability of media outlets to report on the NSA “just doesn’t make sense” to him.
The focus of Alexander’s comments to the military blog was insisting that all media reports on the NSA were a “dramatic, convenient lie,” followed by an admonition for troops not to “give into the hype” and to trust the NSA unconditionally.
Alexander’s comments during the NSA scandal have mostly been blanket denials, and even after some of those denials have been proven flat out untrue he has stuck to that story. He seems to still be holding out hope that after months of confirmed reports based on official documents, everyone will somehow be convinced to forget about everything and just trust him.
Sounds like a call to buy the complicity of the reporters that can be bought, then suppress by marginalization, imprisonment, and in extremis "termination with extreme prejudice" of those few reporters without a "For Sale or Lease" sign on their backsides.
What a deranged fruit. But let him keep talking. The more he talks, the more the world discovers how nuts and criminal he his. Not unlike with the neonons. And as these idiots start feeling the pressure they lose their minds altogether and even let the truth of their real intentions escape every once in a while.
Perhaps the good General would "understand" if he took the time to read the First Amendment to the Constitution that he has sworn to defend "against all enemies, foreign or domestic." But it would be difficult for him to admit that he is one of the "domestic enemies" whom he is duty-bound to oppose.
He'll deny that he is a domestic enemy even as they're taking him off to a jail cell for his treason.
He'll deny that he is a domestic enemy even as he's being led off to a jail cell for his treason.
Why is this fool in a uniform? Is the NSA a military, para-military, or non-military entity within the US government ?
As a former NSA op, let me take a whack at that. It's never fit neatly and comfortably into any precise category as to militarization. While it has always had an extensive civilian/contractor component, the NSA's general work force has always been overwhelmingly based in the military. I can't speak to the organizational structures in the other services, but I served in the USAF when I was put to work for NSA, doing the job the NSA was created to do, listening in on Soviet military communications. It had/has its own separate "command" within the USAF, known as the US Air Force Security Service (USAFSS) when I was in, now dubbed the USAF Electronic Security Command. This command has its own separate Air Force squadrons entirely dedicated to the mission of "serving the customer" in which the sole "customer" is the NSA.
Why is that guy even still in office? Save us, Obama! Oh wait…
So he would say – Dissent is verboten in der USA.
What will the world learn about the Clappers and Alexanders in twenty years.
Remember the opening of the doors on J. Edger Hoover. What an eyefull.
Twisted little minds blackmailing the political "elite" in ever increasing power grabns for their own egos.
Foreign terrorists certainly have a lot to learn from these boys.
All those words, safety, democracy, freedom, dignity, human suffering. – for a rat's ass!
Nothing is too low for obsessed minds and unchecked power.
We are going down like Rome in a whirlpool of corruption and insanity!
Mental darkness
An illusion of good hiding misery,
a liar’s pretense of good hiding an
intent to be enriched upon our misery.
So, just how do we protect ourselves from the Alexander and Clapper liars of the world, as not until after the fact do we grasp who is benefiting the most from our misery?
And so, is not the sole purpose of this world to establish a full and perfect understanding of darkness?
Guys like Alexander fully believe that they are justified and will be on the right side of history. They've bought in so far on the myth that what they do is legal and right and that methods and procedures used protect the freedoms and rights of the American people – and State. Little people who scream that their privacy has been violated are not acting in the best interest of the people – and the State. Unfortunately, people like Alexander have blurred the lines between the "people" and the "State" equivocating one with the other. But it has never been that way, even at the start. The State has always attempted to whittle away the rights the Founders codified…successfully, IMO.
For the American citizen, the real danger to our freedom is not the al-Qaeda fighters or the real journalists who expose the inner machinations of our government but the State itself. Those we elect sell out immediately upon elevation to Congress and proceed to enable the State to suppress the citizens, for their protection, of course. The concept used to define the structure and direction of this country has been corrupted and hijacked – and they're not going to give it back without a serious fight.
Louis Brandeis said it best in his dissenting opinion in Olmstead v. U.S.:
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
Herr Generalissimo needs to be stopped. Or in the very least told to STFU.
No, the NSA must be stopped, and those leaders like him (Obama, Clapper, et al.) who have betrayed our trust and the values they were sworn to uphold, e.g. fidelity to the Constitution.
as opposed to the non-stop 24/7 lying/coverup of the united states government……
How long till we see big groups of citizens simply start detaining and trying these fascists?
There exists a presumption which almost everyone accepts without any skepticism whatsoever: spying is a necessary fact. All countries do it, and ***MUST*** do it.
I suggest it is time to actually think about this. Is it really true? Is it unconditionally true? I could understand the need for spying during wartime, but when there is no war?
I expect that many will jump up all reflexively, all automatically, and say something like, "Don't be ridiculous, of course spying is absolutely vital to national security!!!!" But I think this is just echo chamber ignorance, foundational dogma that has become presumptive "truth", canonical even, akin to the cold war dogma: "Commie = evil!" The value to the leadership class of spying, secrecy, and public ignorance and paranoia, is clear. It enhances and protects their power, leaving the people ignorant and frightened and dependent on these their "Guardians" for protection.
Time to question the assumption that spying is necessary. Then immediately thereafter, time to question as well, whether we even need a leadership class.
Something has to change. What we have now is an abomination.
There exists a presumption which almost everyone accepts without any skepticism whatsoever: spying is necessary. All countries do it, and ***MUST*** do it.
I suggest it is time to actually think about this. Is it really true? Is it unconditionally true? I could understand the need for spying during wartime, but when there is no war?
I expect that many will jump up all reflexively, all automatically, and say something like, "Don't be ridiculous, of course spying is absolutely vital to national security!!!!" But I think this is just echo chamber ignorance, foundational dogma that has become presumptive "truth", canonical even, akin to the cold war dogma: "Commie = evil!" The value to the leadership class of spying, secrecy, and public ignorance and paranoia, is clear. It enhances and protects their power, leaving the people ignorant and frightened and dependent on these their "Guardians" for protection.
Time to question the assumption that spying is necessary. Then immediately thereafter, time to question as well, whether we even need a leadership class.
Something has to change. What we have now is an abomination.
There exists a presumption which almost everyone accepts without any skepticism whatsoever: spying is necessary. All countries do it, and ***MUST*** do it.
I suggest it is time to actually think about this. Is it really true? Is it unconditionally true? I can understand the need for spying during wartime, but when there is no war?
I expect that many will jump up all reflexively, all automatically, and say something like, "Don't be ridiculous. Spying is absolutely vital to national security!!!!" But isn't this just echo chamber ignorance, foundational dogma that has become presumptive "truth", canonical even, akin to the cold war dogma: "Commie = evil!"?
The value to the leadership class of spying, secrecy, and public ignorance and paranoia, is clear. It enhances and protects leadership class power, leaving the people ignorant and frightened and dependent on these their "Guardians" for protection.
Time to question the assumption that spying is necessary. Then immediately thereafter, time to question as well, whether we even need a leadership class.
Something has to change. What we have now is an abomination.
NSA is just like Amazon and its crazy bug-eyed CEO Bezos. You go on the amazon web site and your browsing history under the caption 'recently reviewed' is right there, which implies its they are tracking you!
Why don't we all get off the grid, right now,
Remember: it's not the crime that is condemnable, it's the denunciation of the crime. But only when the author is Government.