A third world country run by an Indonesian Impostor
without so much as a transcript or birth certificate.
Posted on 08/01/2013 9:14:31 AM PDT by Nachum
Edited on 08/01/2013 9:16:48 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
While speaking at an annual conference of hacker and cybersecurity experts on Wednesday morning, National Security Agency head Gen. Keith Alexander was heckled by members of the audience for his agency
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A third world country run by an Indonesian Impostor
without so much as a transcript or birth certificate.
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Yes Keith, you are mortal and no one outside the Beltway is buying what you’re shovelling.
BTTT
Glad to see somone standing up to their obfuscating and outright LYING
This guy is apparently an idiot who agreed to speak without knowing his audience.
Techies tend to be VERY Libertarian on this stuff. Probably because they understand the full capabilities.
No, no, you have it ALL wrong. He told the least untruthful he was allowed. /s
I mean, it’s not like anybody is going to PRISON over THAT, right?! /s/s
Spot on. I’m a very experienced software engineer - give me 15 minutes with this guy....I’m not sure what he was thinking. They probably understand the general technology capabilities better than he does.
If they already *have* the data, why am I supposed to trust that they *will* go to a judge when they no longer need to? It’s only when you don’t have what you need from a 3rd party that you’ll need to go to a judge to order the submission of data. As it stands, they already have the data. They can mine it any way they choose, not just for looking at terrorist “patterns” found through algorithms (the claim). It is way too ripe for abuse by an individual, or with other agencies with political interests. They’re just telling us to trust they’ll be ethical, when they obviously don’t trust us. In the name of National Security they get to just tell us they’re not violating the Constitution, while providing no way of verifying it. Sorry, too convenient.
Generals hate being outside their “comfort zone”, i.e. any place where everyone isn’t kissing their butt.
“You lied to Congress. Why would we believe you’re not lying to us right now?” another attendee said, prompting another voice to demand that everyone “wait for the question session.”
Alexander denied that he ever lied to Congress, despite critics pointing to the March 2012 hearing in which the NSA chief said 14 times that the agency does not collect the sorts of data alleged in a Wired article on surveillance operations.
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