Jim Bamford: Elergy on Keith Alexander Pseudo-Geek

The Secret War INFILTRATION. SABOTAGE. MAYHEM. FOR YEARS FOUR-STAR GENERAL KEITH ALEXANDER HAS BEEN BUILDING A SECRET ARMY CAPABLE OF LAUNCHING DEVASTATING CYBERATTACKS. NOW IT’S READY TO UNLEASH HELL. James Bamford Wired, 12 June 2013 EXTRACT Alexander runs the nation’s cyberwar efforts, an empire he has built over the past eight years by insisting that …

Jim Bamford: How 9/11 Fearmongering Grew NSA Into a Very Expensive Domestic Surveillance Monster

September 11 fearmongering grew NSA Jim Bamford Politico, 9/8/11 Somewhere between Sept. 11 and today, the enemy morphed from a handful of terrorists to the American population at large, leaving us nowhere to run and no place to hide. Within weeks of the attacks, the giant ears of the National Security Agency, always pointed outward …

Berto Jongman: Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates

Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates J. Peter Scoblic, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School, is a fellow in the International Security Program at New America and the author of U.S. vs. Them: Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror. “From bias to probabilities, Kent anticipated …

Amazon Kindle: Anti-Intelligence: What happens when the president goes to war with his own spies? (Trump Revolution Book 28)

I strongly recommend that every thoughtful patriot click on the first link in the text and read the free online article by James Bamford before reading my reflections. James Bamford is arguably the finest open source researcher on the topic of the National Security Agency in history. Among his many works the best have been …