NSA Chief Gen. Keith Alexander went on ABC today in an attempt to placate the American public’s growing disquiet about his organization’s massive surveillance of day-to-day activities.
Gen. Alexander insisted that the surveillance program was exactly what the American public should’ve expected and indeed, secretly probably wanted, after 9/11, adding that everything they did was “what you’d expect us to do,” and of “noble intent.”
Though most of the interview consisted of Alexander defending the notion of surveillance as a matter of course and condemning whistleblower Edward Snowden for “betraying” the NSA’s trust, while providing the sort of equivocation-ridden non-answers that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper famously described as the “least untruthful” things he could think of.
In the end, Alexander would only concede that the NSA is doing something surveillance related, that it works in his estimation, and that it is perfectly legal, also in his estimation.
Alexander did make some notable claims, however, particularly insisting that he doesn’t even really know who WikiLeaks is, and that he’s never followed anything related to them.
Can't wait for this fruit to have his Petraeus moment and tumble from his throne.
by throne you mean the one he sits on when his tummy gurgles?
There is nothing "noble" about spying on the masses, it's an evil practice. The all encompassing, government eyeball is not so much concerned with the overworked word "terrorism", but far more concerned about common Americans who are getting fed up with a massively lame and dysfunctional government, that doesn't give a damn about its own people or for that matter people anywhere.
Every tyrant, despot, warlord and autocrat claims to be motivated by "noble intent." Whether it's Palpatine, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Cheney* or Obama, the same sleazy excuse is trotted out, though under different guises. No doubt all of them at least partially believed their own rhetoric. That doesn't make their deeds any less evil. So, Gen. Alexander, the hot air you vented on ABC does not change your status as an agent of evil. You can still salvage your integrity (along with your soul) by turning away from the dark side, but time is running out.
* – I listed Cheney instead of Bush the Lesser because he was the de facto despot during that reign. Bush was little more than an empty suit — a puppet that danced to Cheney's string pulling. "Cheney's poodle," if you like. That would make Tony Blair a poodle's poodle — a huge downward slide on the political food chain, which Blair will never live down.
Thank you my brother.
Nothing america has ever done should be considered noble being the cause of it all as a result of her policies.
It is said that Booth thought he had noble intent when he shot Lincoln, breaking the Constitution has NO nobility at all, don't like the constitution as it is, change it, there is such a thing as a constitutional amendment, of course though, every person that voted for such a thing wouldn't be around after the next election, and it would most probably be changed back very quickly!
"Noble intent" is BS, of course. This is what they tell themselves, and the public, so they can sleep at night. And they back this false sense of rightness with the equally absurd notion of "legality." And, as Strider55 points out they probably even believe it themselves. The problem is the American public are slowly waking up to the charade. The American people are, as noted above, fed up with these theatrics and are starting to demand reasonable explanations – and not accepting the BS usually trotted out.
But, I don't expect the Archons to give in willingly. They have acquired way too much power to walk away when a few concerned citizens start to examine what is being done. The pressure will be applied on the citizens (like prosecuting whistleblowers as spies) with the (noble) intent of beating down further examination. The outcomes of these battles will be the keys for how we as a people go forward as a country.
The Stasi insisted on the supposed nobility of their surveillance regime to the bitter end, and beyond.
Sorry Keith, it wasn't convincing either when Fawn Hall said there were "times when you have to go above the written law." But at least she was a good looking woman, not a middle aged man dressed in a Ruritarian palace guard uniform. Do you wear a sword with that?
"Hell is paved with "noble intent."
Do you think that would stand up in a court of law?
Sadly, it depends entirely on who is sitting on the bench…
Reasons FISA warrants are rubberstamped http://www.corbettreport.com/interview-687-sibel-edmonds...
After Hitler got arrested for an attempted right-wing coup in the early 1920's, he swore that everything he would do after that would be 'legal'. And he kept that pledge. The murder of 6,000,000 people was 'legal' under the laws he passed once he gained power. The arrests and torture of the Gestapo was 'legal' under the laws he passed.
Sorry if being told that this is 'legal' doesn't make me rest any better.
Note of course that this is already being used to spy on journalists who might report something embarrassing.
This of course from the same government and military that classified the "Collateral Murder" video as 'secret' even though it contained no 'secret' info that would harm the country …. only that it would be embarrassing and harmful to the war effort if it was released.
We've seen opposition political groups like "Occupy" spied upon, infiltrated, entrapped and likely disrupted with COINTEL-style acts from undercover agents. As an example, Occupy was obviously considered 'dangerous' by the government and was attacked by a coordinated effort led by Homeland Security.
As always, all of these program and policies are very quickly turned to political advantage. But hey, you can always believe that they are keeping us safe from terrorists who never attack and who are never arrested.
This was covered under Means vs Ends judgment. The ends do not justify the means.
Sorry. Try again.
As far as I am concerned Alexander's use of the term "noble" and "trust" are occult coded terms. "Noble" for the "Noble lie", the neo-Platonic pretext for lying and withholding information from the people, by the "elite", lately promoted and used by those in the neo-conservative camps, who ultimately represent the City of London, and Israel its Geo-political state player in the world.
"Trust" is also coded for Snowden's betrayal of trust of the NSA "brotherhood", obviously referring to the oath taken between bothers within the occult cabal that now controls the world. An oath that transcends the sovereignty of the country for which Snowden worked for (USA), but treason against the inter-connected secret societies that have been working together since Albert Pike and Mazzini camp up with the Palladium Rite.
How many active commissioned officers do we have running 'civilian' agencies? How come nobody seems to notice? If the military is supposed to be under 'civilian' control. how can we tolerate civilian agencies under military control? And apparently General Alexander the Great still has a military command in addition to his NSA duties. Isn't this just a little scary???
The NSA has always been a military agency since it was established in 1952. Every one of its (to date) 16 directors has been a general or an admiral. Civilian oversight is supposed to be provided by the Secretary of Defense. The issue here revolves around posse comitatus, the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution, and the exercise of unbounded power, not around a general running a military organization.
Very important points you make about martial law.
Alexander is an example of history repeating itself.
Milton Mayer's book "They Thought They Were Free" tells the story of how the German people came to accept the takeover of their democracy by the Nazi party and then let themselves be drawn into a war, a war which became the excuse for greater oppression and terrible atrocities. It should be compulsory reading for everyone in politics or national security and a handbook for all voters everywhere.
If you don't have time to read the book, check this link for an extract. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928…
Yeah, they deserve a star and a smiley face for wiping their backsides on the constitution they were sworn "to protect." He's Slim Pickins minus the charm.
That punk is certainly fit for mental treatment.