The liberal media need a liberal expert to give them a perspective they can understand and use to bolster their opinions.
And didn't Pike once get in trouble for claiming a degree (PhD) that he didn't have?
Nevertheless, fas.org is chock full of info.
Tuesday January 15, 2002 05:00 PM EST / Budget Cuts Threaten Space Statione-- "The space station has been a very important foreign policy tool and now NASA is making it a foreign policy problem," says John Pike, a space analyst. "It's like we tricked countries into participating and now we won't let them go on with their experiments."
Monday January 7, 2002 6:24 PM ET /Fla. Military Base Knew About Plane-- Those are probably sufficient to shoot down a small plane, said John Pike, a military expert with GlobalSecurity.org in Alexandria, Va. But they would have little effect on a hijacked airliner plummeting from the sky. The base doesn't have any surface-to-air missiles defending it, officials said."
October 8, 2001/Security Chief Must Battle Bureaucracy-- National security experts also say Ridge must define his agency's role and scope. "What is homeland defense? Everyone's in favor of it, but how will we recognize it when we have it?" asked Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a national security think tank in Alexandria, Va. "Where does homeland defense leave off and law enforcement begin? His big challenge is going to be defining homeland defense broadly enough to actually accomplish something."
May 23, 2001/U.S. Wooing Student Hackers Yet another expert was unimpressed. "That doesn't strike me as being a lot of money," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org."Putting a couple dozen security professionals on the government payroll is a drop in the bucket." Pike said the problem is not the lack of information systems (IS) professionals; it is more critical to set security standards on commercial vendors that protect trade secrets, intellectual property, and software source code. "I don't think it's the sort of issue that could be addressed by reallocating personnel," he said.
Feds may be reading your mail-- "They are looking for thugs and drugs," says John Pike, expert on security and intelligence issues for the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, D.C……. For those concerned about potential abuses, the issue is simple: "What it comes down to is, somebody is reading your mail," says Pike, who serves as director of the Federation of American Scientists' Intelligence Project. "If it is an international transaction, the National Security Agency is monitoring it," Pike adds. "The target is wide open: Essentially, it consists of anything that would be of interest to the U.S. government -- and the rest of the English-speaking world." And no one is watching to see what they do with the information.
November 13, 2001/War's swing south changes U.S. focus-- John Pike of Globalsecurity.org, a defense and national security analysis Web site, cautions against depicting the south as an obstacle-free battle zone for the U.S. The region tends to be much cloudier than the north in winter, Pike said. And for the moment, there is no place in the southern portion of the country where a U.S. or U.S.-backed force could feel entirely safe from guerrilla attack.