General Keith Alexander : The Cowboy of the NSA
(Shane Harris, Sept 2013)
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For NSA chief, terrorist threat drives passion to ‘collect it all’
(Ellen Nakashima & Joby Warrick, July 2013)▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/for-nsa-chief-terrorist-threat-drives-passion-to-collect-it-all/2013/07/14/3d26ef80-ea49-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html
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Délit d’"initié" à la tête de la NSA ?
Why Was the NSA Chief Playing the Market?
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/10/22/keith_alexander_stock_trades_potash_aluminum_russia_chinaAt the same time that he was running the United States’ biggest intelligence-gathering organization, former National Security Agency Director #Keith_Alexander owned and sold shares in commodities linked to China and Russia, two countries that the NSA was spying on heavily
(remember the #NSA spies on EVERYTHING and EVERYONE)
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Amorce de réponse avec Tom Engelhardt ici ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/304068 :
How many Americans have security clearances? The answer: 5.1 million, a figure that reflects the explosive growth of the national security state in the post-9/11 era. Imagine the kind of system needed just to vet that many people for access to our secret world (to the tune of billions of dollars). We’re talking here about the total population of Norway and significantly more people than you can find in Costa Rica, Ireland, or New Zealand. And yet it’s only about 1.6% of the American population, while on ever more matters, the unvetted 98.4% of us are meant to be left in the dark.
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NSA director admits to misleading public on terror plots
▻http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/nsa_director_admits_to_misleading_public_on_terror_plotsÀ la question de savoir s’il avait volontairement gonflé le chiffre du nombre d’attentats avortés grâce au programme de surveillance, le patron de la #NSA répond tranquillement « oui. »
During Wednesday’s hearing, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy pushed Alexander to admit that plot numbers had been fudged in a revealing interchange:
“There is no evidence that [bulk] phone records collection helped to thwart dozens or even several terrorist plots,” said Leahy. The Vermont Democrat then asked the NSA chief to admit that only 13 out of a previously cited 54 cases of foiled plots were genuinely the fruits of the government’s vast dragnet surveillance systems:
“These weren’t all plots, and they weren’t all foiled,” Leahy said, asking Alexander, “Would you agree with that, yes or no?”
“Yes,” replied Alexander.
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La NSA admet avoir exagéré la menace terroriste pour justifier la surveillance
▻http://www.numerama.com/magazine/27146-la-nsa-admet-avoir-exagere-la-menace-terroriste-pour-justifier-la-suL’échange entre Patrick Leahy et Keith Alexander a été retranscrit par Salon. « Il n’existe aucune preuve que la captation massive des données téléphoniques a permis de déjouer des dizaines de complots terroristes », a d’abord déclaré le président de la commission judiciaire. Selon lui, sur les 54 cas avancés par Washington, seuls 13 auraient effectivement été contrés via la surveillance de masse.
« Tous [ces cas] n’étaient pas des complots et tous n’ont pas été neutralisés », a lancé Patrick Leahy à l’attention de Keith Alexander. « Êtes-vous d’accord avec ça, oui ou non ? » lui a-t-il demandé. « - Oui », a répondu le général. Cela, en supposant que les 13 cas restants n’ont pas impliqué d’autres sources de renseignement (renseignement humain, analyse, etc).
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Fact: the NSA gets negligible intel from Americans’ metadata. So end collection
▻http://warincontext.org/2013/10/08/fact-the-nsa-gets-negligible-intel-from-americans-metadata-so-end-coll▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/08/nsa-bulk-metadata-surveillance-intelligence
Leahy then demanded that Alexander confirm what his deputy, Christopher Inglis, had said in the prior week’s testimony: that there is only one example where collection of bulk data is what stopped a terrorist activity. Alexander responded that Inglis might have said two, not one.
In fact, what Inglis had said the week before was that there was one case “that comes close to a but-for example and that’s the case of Basaaly Moalin“. So, who is Moalin, on whose fate the NSA places the entire burden of justifying its metadata collection program? Did his capture foil a second 9/11?
A cabby from San Diego, Moalin had immigrated as a teenager from Somalia. In February, he was convicted of providing material assistance to a terrorist organization: he had transferred $8,500 to al-Shabaab in Somalia.
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For NSA chief, terrorist threat drives passion to ‘collect it all’ - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/for-nsa-chief-terrorist-threat-drives-passion-to-collect-it-all/2013/07/14/3d26ef80-ea49-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_print.htmlHe has been credited as a key supporter of the development of Stuxnet, the computer worm that infected Iran’s main uranium enrichment facility in 2009 and 2010 and is the most aggressive known use to date of offensive cyberweaponry. U.S. officials have never publicly acknowledged involvement in what has been described by experts as the first known, industrial-scale cyberattack on a sovereign nation, one that is estimated to have set back Iran’s uranium production by as much as a year.
