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Pholus

(4,062 posts)
Thu Jul 31, 2014, 09:33 AM Jul 2014

The NSA as personal profit center

Last edited Thu Jul 31, 2014, 11:25 AM - Edit history (1)

More detail on General Alexander's post NSA consulting gig. It involves lots of cash, patents on revolutionary cybersecurity concepts somehow developed independently from taxpayer funded duties and oh yeah....it's all sekret from us. Cause sekrets are never used to hide shenanigans right!

Just adding evidence to my thesis that the NSA is mostly angry at Snowden for giving away their illegal milk for free.

Best quote:


At the very best, he is stoking a perception of impropriety so extreme and inevitable that it speaks poorly of his character that he's chosen to retire in this fashion.
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http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/keith-alexanders-unethical-get-rich-quick-plan/375367/




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