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Testimony Of NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander - Live Webcast

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Army Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and head of U.S. Cyber Command is currently testifying in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee's scheduled session. As TPM reported, Alexander had already met with the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who chairs the committee, said the committee had asked Alexander to declassify some information pertaining to the NSA surveillance programs so that Congress could better explain their purpose to the public. "I think they're really helpful," Feinstein said, as quoted by CBS News. "And that's the problem, it's all classified... If we can get that declassified then we can speak much more clearly." Watch the hearing on C-Span 3 live after the jump.

 

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Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:28 | 3651444 mrdenis
Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:29 | 3651448 thisandthat
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Read his name as Kaiser Alexander...

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:32 | 3651453 Brixton Guns
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Mikulski and the other senators are effectively sucking the NSA witness panels' cocks.  C-SPORN.

Fuck these assholes, and their fucking CLOSED SESSION.

 

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 17:10 | 3651478 Kirk2NCC1701
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I sometimes wonder if they cancelled the ABC TV series "V" for reasons that hit too close to home.  Space Aliens (lizard shapeshifters?) are aiding & abetting TPTB -- for their own &  hidden (Luciferian?) agenda.

   Shapeshifter at Obama's AIPAC speech:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MIKHUZAsUc

   UFO over Dome of The Rock, Jerusalem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27x5n2ZVgvE and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZuZ_ha2XtM

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=58KWzHutB3Q&feature=endscreen  (up 1/4x to 1/32x slow-mo)

          CNN reports high-level/VIP convention on UFOs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=P0v0DhNcDn4&feature=endscreen

Notice the endless barrage of Aliens vs. Earth TV shows and movies in recent years?  In the latest TV series, they portray a post-Apocalyptics world, where we actually collaborate with some aliens -- to fight against other ones.  WTF?  Are we being 'prepared'?

NWO?  Is this why "Deficits don't matter", "Debt does not matter"?  "Global Warming does not exist or does not matter"?  Is this why they want to spy on every human with brains, means or connections?

Is this why they don't want us too well armed, or have 'rogue' states threaten the Aliens with nukes?  Certainly if one of them came down and sat upon a throne (as The Messiah) in the Al Aqsa mosque, that would provoke the Muslim world to a nuclear war!

And why does the UN now have an Office and Amnassador for UN Office For Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)?  See...  http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20017713-501465/united-nations-ap... We're not talking 'just' Trekkies, Sci-Fi buffs or fringe groups -- but the UN itself.  Why???

They want a One-World Government (OWG), and will use Terra Forming (global warming) for "desertification" of planet Earth?

/Damn it Spock, whaddya mean your scanners are not picking up shape-shifting aliens? /s

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 17:37 | 3651676 InconvenientCou...
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They want you to eat and drink. So the question is ; What are you going to do about it?

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:38 | 3651480 Zymurguy
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The flaw in our constitution... it's missing one more branch of government:  Public oversight of government activity.

Our politicians and intelligence/law enforcement agencies have colluded to pass legislation protecting themselves from public scrutiny and punishment.  They've walled themselves in behind layers of beuracracy intented to keep the public from seeing or knowing what they are truly doing.  They use special committees to even hide it from other agencies and politicians.  They use terms like "classified" and "sensitive information" as tools to block out our attempts at observation.

We need an amendment that puts an additional check and balance power directly into the hands of the actual public.

Problem is... they keep us from having any control over lawmaking to begin with so our legislators, who have rigged the system into their favor, won't lift a finger to provide any additional transparency into the inner workings of our own government and hence we cannot bring any legislation in without it being in their control.  Our elected politicians are nothing but a layer of panderers whose job is really to act as a sea wall against us.

The public has been completely walled off.

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:55 | 3651537 trader1
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public oversight requires public "give a fuck"

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 18:46 | 3651879 btdt
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"...

The flaw in our constitution... it's missing one more branch of government:  Public oversight of government activity.

...."

The Grand Jury is public oversight of government activity.

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:40 | 3651485 TheMayor
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I am supposed to trust some goon in a military uniform?

"I am only spying on you a little bit, really it's not that bad."

God help us.

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:44 | 3651495 booboo
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I will ask again, if this program is "perfectly legal and normal and are not really intrusions into privacy" what did Edward Snowdan reveal that was criminal? Let me guess, he exposed the truth?

 

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:50 | 3651513 IndyPat
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The fact that they didn't get 350 million plus FISA warrants and that 350 million people suspected sorta buttfucks the very notion of probable cause?

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:44 | 3651502 TheMayor
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"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" -  Nazi Joseph Goebbels

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:59 | 3651555 Jim B
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Goebbels and the "power" elite in DC!

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:48 | 3651514 gdpetti
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THis is another repeat pattern same as the Presidents speech to excuse his/their bad/evil behavior by claiming their 'intent' is 'good for the nation'. This pattern is found in the Global Warming scam as well, by cherry picking the data to frame the discussion as you like and disparage any opposition that dares to speak otherwise, especially with they dare divulge all the other facts that speak the truth. Feinstein, and the 3 Amigos of Graham/McCain/Leiberman are always using this tactic, which is so classic in the means of control of the masses.

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:52 | 3651527 IndyPat
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Yup. Modest invasion of privacy.

Really raises the bar for wanton invasions to come. I bet they are up to it.

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:55 | 3651535 monad
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Its cool, just give us your guns.

Now.

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:58 | 3651539 Jumbotron
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This seems interesting.  Personal peer to peer encryption to only people you trust.  It's called Retroshare.

Have a look here....

http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/index.html

 

And here is an article about it here....

http://www.unixmen.com/retroshare-a-next-generation-secure-communication...

 

Best thing is....it's all free

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 17:03 | 3651570 Pretty Vacant
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As taxpayers we should be entitled to know what this program costs, and what specific terrorist attempt(s) were thwarted. 

 

Sequester the NSA! 

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 17:04 | 3651573 0b1knob
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Doesn't having an active duty military officer in charge of a civilian agency (NSA) raise issues about civilian control of the military?

 

¿In Soviet Union civilians have control of military.

¿In Soviet America MILITARY has control of CIVILIANS.

Jackoff Smirnoff

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 17:06 | 3651578 sitenine
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Govt. Investigating Govt. Wow. And the band played on...

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 17:09 | 3651587 Richard Head
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This fucking liar Keith Alexander deserves to be busted down to Private, have his pension canceled, and sent to Guantanamo. 

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 19:40 | 3652025 Non Passaran
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The Real Terrorist

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 17:17 | 3651611 Canoe in the Desert
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The good General would likely defend his country with his life....but not lift one finger if it would jeopardize his career. Ask General Petraeus what happens when the White House wants you out of the way. The data available from PRISM and other collection programs can be used to profile and destroy anyone.

Is that the sound of helicopters approaching? AAHHH!!

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 19:26 | 3651951 acrabbe
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i bet you one all expenses paid trip to guantanamo that this guy alexander has been fucked up the ass multiple times since joning the military in order to move to top ranks of total command and control... and probably has more than one neuro psycho muscular control chip mechanism thingy implanted somewhere anywhere on or in his body. NSA Director????   What type of vetting do you think the dark evil earth warlords go through to appoint and monitor the director of one of their most powerful secret mission organizations? 

is this fight club or is it kindergarten? maybe the trolls have totally coopted this place and the rest of you are bound, gagged and fucked. maybe if i hadn't left the US a few years ago i would be in the same position. unable to post. or have had my name clandestinely appropriated by some faceless 20something year old agent who is too smart for his own good (but no imagination or original thought patterns).

is this place dead like the republic? your only escape is death. im not preaching violent revolution. oh no. far from it. im preaching realization. catch up. look at the "conspiracy theorists". begin to move from the most conservative end of the spectrum to the extreme. the further along u go, the tougher time u will have accepting their arguments. that is just you in denial.

yes. some theories are cuckoo. deadpan stupid. but look around you. i mean, i live VERY far away from america and they are stillw atching me and occasionally sending people to frame me, murder me, scare me. believe it, it's true. funny thing is if i hadnt lved in the US for 15 years i wouldnt be paranoid enough to have survived all this shit they throw at me.

your deepest fears are true. embrace them, you might have an out of body experience or life crisis, temporary, but you won't die. right away... part of their power comes from illusion of total power projection. sort of like the Bully, in a way. much more dangerous, but still the same concept. their power is derived from all of YOU

 

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 19:36 | 3652011 goldenbuddha454
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All Prezbo has to do is say its the Republican's NSA and the Republican's CIA and the Republican's Gitmo and FBI and George Bush's PRISM and Bush got us into Afghanistan and Iraq and a right wing conservative started the IRS targeting of the Tea Party and the body guards that guarded Hillary while they convened a hooker party voted for Bush and the company's that gave money to make the guns in Fast and Furious gave money to Mitt Romney and look at Boehner, McConnell, McCain and Graham they are Republicans and they like the surveillance of Americans and warrantless wiretaps and John Roberts is a Republican and he likes the ACA/Obamacare, in fact he judged it into law as a tax and the 17 trillion in debt we have now is because Republicans gave us the go ahead to spend more through the stimulus plans and look at the Federal Reserve its a bunch of rich millionaire country club Republicans.  See how easy it is to spin your way out of trouble.

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 21:42 | 3652478 ThisIsBob
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We have decided that what we are doing is a state secret, and we are forbidden to tell you state secrets.

Wed, 06/12/2013 - 23:07 | 3652873 Totentänzerlied
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This dog practically wags itself.

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