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Meet The Man In Charge Of America's Secret Cyber Army (In Which "Bonesaw" Makes A Mockery Of PRISM)
With his revelations exposing the extent of potential, and actual, pervasive NSA surveillance over the American population, Edward Snowden has done a great service for the public by finally forcing it to answer the question: is having Big Brother peek at every private communication and electronic information, a fair exchange for the alleged benefit of the state's security. Alas, without further action form a population that appears largely numb and apathetic to disclosures that until recently would have sparked mass protests and toppled presidents, the best we can hope for within a political regime that has hijacked the democratic process, is some intense introspection as to what the concept of "America" truly means.
However, and more importantly, what Snowden's revelations have confirmed, is that behind the scenes, America is now actively engaged in a new kind of war: an unprecedented cyber war, where collecting, deciphering, intercepting, and abusing information is the only thing that matters and leads to unprecedented power, and where enemies both foreign and domestic may be targeted without due process based on a lowly analyst's "whim."
It has also put spotlight on the man, who until recently deep in the shadows, has been responsible for building America's secret, absolutely massive cyber army, and which according to a just released Wired profile is "capable of launching devastating cyberattacks. Now it's ready to unleash hell."
Meet General Keith Alexander, "a man few even in Washington would likely recognize", which is troubling because Alexander is now quite possibly the most powerful person in the world, that nobody talks about. Which is just the way he likes it.
This is the partial and incomplete story of the man who may now be empowered with more unchecked power than any person in the history of the US, or for that matter, the world. It comes once again, courtesy of the man who over a year before the Guardian's Snowden bombshell broke the story about the NSA's secret Utah data storage facility, James Bamford, and whose intimate knowledge of the NSA's secrets comes by way of being a consultant for the defense team of one Thomas Drake, one of the original NSA whistleblowers (as we learn from the full Wired article).
But first, by way of background, here is a glimpse of Alexander's ultra-secretive kingdom. From Wired:
Inside Fort Meade, Maryland, a top-secret city bustles. Tens of thousands of people move through more than 50 buildings—the city has its own post office, fire department, and police force. But as if designed by Kafka, it sits among a forest of trees, surrounded by electrified fences and heavily armed guards, protected by antitank barriers, monitored by sensitive motion detectors, and watched by rotating cameras. To block any telltale electromagnetic signals from escaping, the inner walls of the buildings are wrapped in protective copper shielding and the one-way windows are embedded with a fine copper mesh.
This is the undisputed domain of General Keith Alexander, a man few even in Washington would likely recognize. Never before has anyone in America’s intelligence sphere come close to his degree of power, the number of people under his command, the expanse of his rule, the length of his reign, or the depth of his secrecy. A four-star Army general, his authority extends across three domains: He is director of the world’s largest intelligence service, the National Security Agency; chief of the Central Security Service; and commander of the US Cyber Command. As such, he has his own secret military, presiding over the Navy’s 10th Fleet, the 24th Air Force, and the Second Army.
Schematically, Alexander's empire consists of the following: virtually every piece in America's information intelligence arsenal.
As the Snowden scandal has unfurled, some glimpses into the "introspective" capabilities of the NSA, and its sister organizations, have demonstrated just how powerful the full "intelligence" arsenal of the US can be.
However, it is when it is facing outward - as it normally does - that things get really scary. Because contrary to prevailing conventional wisdom, Alexander's intelligence and information-derived power is far from simply defensive. In fact, it is when its offensive potential is exposed that the full destructive power in Alexander's grasp is revealed:
In its tightly controlled public relations, the NSA has focused attention on the threat of cyberattack against the US—the vulnerability of critical infrastructure like power plants and water systems, the susceptibility of the military’s command and control structure, the dependence of the economy on the Internet’s smooth functioning. Defense against these threats was the paramount mission trumpeted by NSA brass at congressional hearings and hashed over at security conferences.
But there is a flip side to this equation that is rarely mentioned: The military has for years been developing offensive capabilities, giving it the power not just to defend the US but to assail its foes. Using so-called cyber-kinetic attacks, Alexander and his forces now have the capability to physically destroy an adversary’s equipment and infrastructure, and potentially even to kill. Alexander—who declined to be interviewed for this article—has concluded that such cyberweapons are as crucial to 21st-century warfare as nuclear arms were in the 20th.
And he and his cyberwarriors have already launched their first attack. The cyberweapon that came to be known as Stuxnet was created and built by the NSA in partnership with the CIA and Israeli intelligence in the mid-2000s. The first known piece of malware designed to destroy physical equipment, Stuxnet was aimed at Iran’s nuclear facility in Natanz. By surreptitiously taking control of an industrial control link known as a Scada (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system, the sophisticated worm was able to damage about a thousand centrifuges used to enrich nuclear material.
The success of this sabotage came to light only in June 2010, when the malware spread to outside computers. It was spotted by independent security researchers, who identified telltale signs that the worm was the work of thousands of hours of professional development. Despite headlines around the globe, officials in Washington have never openly acknowledged that the US was behind the attack. It wasn’t until 2012 that anonymous sources within the Obama administration took credit for it in interviews with The New York Times.
But Stuxnet is only the beginning. Alexander’s agency has recruited thousands of computer experts, hackers, and engineering PhDs to expand US offensive capabilities in the digital realm. The Pentagon has requested $4.7 billion for “cyberspace operations,” even as the budget of the CIA and other intelligence agencies could fall by $4.4 billion. It is pouring millions into cyberdefense contractors. And more attacks may be planned.
Alexander's background is equally as impressive: a classmate of Petraeus and Dempsey, a favorite of Rumsfeld, the General had supreme power written all over his career progression. If reaching the top at all costs meant crushing the fourth amendment and lying to Congress in the process, so be it:
Born in 1951, the third of five children, Alexander was raised in the small upstate New York hamlet of Onondaga Hill, a suburb of Syracuse. He tossed papers for the Syracuse Post-Standard and ran track at Westhill High School while his father, a former Marine private, was involved in local Republican politics. It was 1970, Richard Nixon was president, and most of the country had by then begun to see the war in Vietnam as a disaster. But Alexander had been accepted at West Point, joining a class that included two other future four-star generals, David Petraeus and Martin Dempsey. Alexander would never get the chance to serve in Vietnam. Just as he stepped off the bus at West Point, the ground war finally began winding down.
In April 1974, just before graduation, he married his high school classmate Deborah Lynn Douglas, who grew up two doors away in Onondaga Hill. The fighting in Vietnam was over, but the Cold War was still bubbling, and Alexander focused his career on the solitary, rarefied world of signals intelligence, bouncing from secret NSA base to secret NSA base, mostly in the US and Germany. He proved a competent administrator, carrying out assignments and adapting to the rapidly changing high tech environment. Along the way he picked up masters degrees in electronic warfare, physics, national security strategy, and business administration. As a result, he quickly rose up the military intelligence ranks, where expertise in advanced technology was at a premium.
In 2001, Alexander was a one-star general in charge of the Army Intelligence and Security Command, the military’s worldwide network of 10,700 spies and eavesdroppers. In March of that year he told his hometown Syracuse newspaper that his job was to discover threats to the country. “We have to stay out in front of our adversary,” Alexander said. “It’s a chess game, and you don’t want to lose this one.” But just six months later, Alexander and the rest of the American intelligence community suffered a devastating defeat when they were surprised by the attacks on 9/11. Following the assault, he ordered his Army intercept operators to begin illegally monitoring the phone calls and email of American citizens who had nothing to do with terrorism, including intimate calls between journalists and their spouses. Congress later gave retroactive immunity to the telecoms that assisted the government.
In 2003, Alexander, a favorite of defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, was named the Army’s deputy chief of staff for intelligence, the service’s most senior intelligence position. Among the units under his command were the military intelligence teams involved in the human rights abuses at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison. Two years later, Rumsfeld appointed Alexander—now a three-star general—director of the NSA, where he oversaw the illegal, warrantless wiretapping program while deceiving members of the House Intelligence Committee. In a publicly released letter to Alexander shortly after The New York Times exposed the program, US representative Rush Holt, a member of the committee, angrily took him to task for not being forthcoming about the wiretapping: “Your responses make a mockery of congressional oversight.”
In short: Emperor Alexander.
Inside the government, the general is regarded with a mixture of respect and fear, not unlike J. Edgar Hoover, another security figure whose tenure spanned multiple presidencies. “We jokingly referred to him as Emperor Alexander—with good cause, because whatever Keith wants, Keith gets,” says one former senior CIA official who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity. “We would sit back literally in awe of what he was able to get from Congress, from the White House, and at the expense of everybody else.”
What happened next in Alexander's career some time in the mid 2000's, was Stuxnet: the story of the crushing virus that nearly destroyed the Iranian nuclear program has been widely documented on these pages and elsewhere, so we won't recount the Wired article's details. However, what was very odd about the Stuxnet attack is that such a brilliantly conceived and delivered virus could ultimately be uncovered and traced back to the NSA and Israel. It was almost too good. Still, what happened after the revelation that Stuxnet could be traced to Fort Meade, is that the middle-east, supposedly, promptly retaliated:
Sure enough, in August 2012 a devastating virus was unleashed on Saudi Aramco, the giant Saudi state-owned energy company. The malware infected 30,000 computers, erasing three-quarters of the company’s stored data, destroying everything from documents to email to spreadsheets and leaving in their place an image of a burning American flag, according to The New York Times. Just days later, another large cyberattack hit RasGas, the giant Qatari natural gas company. Then a series of denial-of-service attacks took America’s largest financial institutions offline. Experts blamed all of this activity on Iran, which had created its own cyber command in the wake of the US-led attacks. James Clapper, US director of national intelligence, for the first time declared cyberthreats the greatest danger facing the nation, bumping terrorism down to second place. In May, the Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team issued a vague warning that US energy and infrastructure companies should be on the alert for cyberattacks. It was widely reported that this warning came in response to Iranian cyberprobes of industrial control systems. An Iranian diplomat denied any involvement.
The cat-and-mouse game could escalate. “It’s a trajectory,” says James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “The general consensus is that a cyber response alone is pretty worthless. And nobody wants a real war.” Under international law, Iran may have the right to self-defense when hit with destructive cyberattacks. William Lynn, deputy secretary of defense, laid claim to the prerogative of self-defense when he outlined the Pentagon’s cyber operations strategy. “The United States reserves the right,” he said, “under the laws of armed conflict, to respond to serious cyberattacks with a proportional and justified military response at the time and place of our choosing.” Leon Panetta, the former CIA chief who had helped launch the Stuxnet offensive, would later point to Iran’s retaliation as a troubling harbinger. “The collective result of these kinds of attacks could be a cyber Pearl Harbor,” he warned in October 2012, toward the end of his tenure as defense secretary, “an attack that would cause physical destruction and the loss of life.”
Almost too good... Because what the so-called hacker "retaliations" originating from Iran, China, Russia, etc, led to such laughable outcomes as DDOS attacks against - to unprecedented media fanfare - the portals of such firms as JPMorgan and Wells Fargo, and as Wired adds, "if Stuxnet was the proof of concept, it also proved that one successful cyberattack begets another. For Alexander, this offered the perfect justification for expanding his empire."
The expansion that took place next for Alexander and his men, all of it under the Obama regime, was simply unprecedented (and that it steamrolled right through the "sequester" was perfectly expected):
[D]ominance has long been their watchword. Alexander’s Navy calls itself the Information Dominance Corps. In 2007, the then secretary of the Air Force pledged to “dominate cyberspace” just as “today, we dominate air and space.” And Alexander’s Army warned, “It is in cyberspace that we must use our strategic vision to dominate the information environment.” The Army is reportedly treating digital weapons as another form of offensive capability, providing frontline troops with the option of requesting “cyber fire support” from Cyber Command in the same way they request air and artillery support.
All these capabilities require a giant expansion of secret facilities. Thousands of hard-hatted construction workers will soon begin erecting cranes, driving backhoes, and emptying cement trucks as they expand the boundaries of NSA’s secret city eastward, increasing its already enormous size by a third. “You could tell that some of the seniors at NSA were truly concerned that cyber was going to engulf them,” says a former senior Cyber Command official, “and I think rightfully so.”
In May, work began on a $3.2 billion facility housed at Fort Meade in Maryland. Known as Site M, the 227-acre complex includes its own 150-megawatt power substation, 14 administrative buildings, 10 parking garages, and chiller and boiler plants. The server building will have 90,000 square feet of raised floor—handy for supercomputers—yet hold only 50 people. Meanwhile, the 531,000-square-foot operations center will house more than 1,300 people. In all, the buildings will have a footprint of 1.8 million square feet. Even more ambitious plans, known as Phase II and III, are on the drawing board. Stretching over the next 16 years, they would quadruple the footprint to 5.8 million square feet, enough for nearly 60 buildings and 40 parking garages, costing $5.2 billion and accommodating 11,000 more cyberwarriors.
In short, despite the sequestration, layoffs, and furloughs in the federal government, it’s a boom time for Alexander. In April, as part of its 2014 budget request, the Pentagon asked Congress for $4.7 billion for increased “cyberspace operations,” nearly $1 billion more than the 2013 allocation. At the same time, budgets for the CIA and other intelligence agencies were cut by almost the same amount, $4.4 billion. A portion of the money going to Alexander will be used to create 13 cyberattack teams.
In the New Normal, the CIA is no longer relevant: all that matters are Alexanders' armies of hackers and computer geeks.
But not only has the public espionage sector been unleashed: the private sector is poised to reap a killing (pardon the pun) too...
What’s good for Alexander is good for the fortunes of the cyber-industrial complex, a burgeoning sector made up of many of the same defense contractors who grew rich supplying the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. With those conflicts now mostly in the rearview mirror, they are looking to Alexander as a kind of savior. After all, the US spends about $30 billion annually on cybersecurity goods and services.
In the past few years, the contractors have embarked on their own cyber building binge parallel to the construction boom at Fort Meade: General Dynamics opened a 28,000-square-foot facility near the NSA; SAIC cut the ribbon on its new seven-story Cyber Innovation Center; the giant CSC unveiled its Virtual Cyber Security Center. And at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, where former NSA director Mike McConnell was hired to lead the cyber effort, the company announced a “cyber-solutions network” that linked together nine cyber-focused facilities. Not to be outdone, Boeing built a new Cyber Engagement Center. Leaving nothing to chance, it also hired retired Army major general Barbara Fast, an old friend of Alexander’s, to run the operation. (She has since moved on.)
Defense contractors have been eager to prove that they understand Alexander’s worldview. “Our Raytheon cyberwarriors play offense and defense,” says one help-wanted site. Consulting and engineering firms such as Invertix and Parsons are among dozens posting online want ads for “computer network exploitation specialists.” And many other companies, some unidentified, are seeking computer and network attackers. “Firm is seeking computer network attack specialists for long-term government contract in King George County, VA,” one recent ad read. Another, from Sunera, a Tampa, Florida, company, said it was hunting for “attack and penetration consultants.”
It gets better: all those anti-virus programs you have on computer to "make it safe" from backdoors and trojans? Guess what - they are the backdoors and trojans!
One of the most secretive of these contractors is Endgame Systems, a startup backed by VCs including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Paladin Capital Group. Established in Atlanta in 2008, Endgame is transparently antitransparent. “We’ve been very careful not to have a public face on our company,” former vice president John M. Farrell wrote to a business associate in an email that appeared in a WikiLeaks dump. “We don’t ever want to see our name in a press release,” added founder Christopher Rouland. True to form, the company declined Wired’s interview requests.
Perhaps for good reason: According to news reports, Endgame is developing ways to break into Internet-connected devices through chinks in their antivirus armor. Like safecrackers listening to the click of tumblers through a stethoscope, the “vulnerability researchers” use an extensive array of digital tools to search for hidden weaknesses in commonly used programs and systems, such as Windows and Internet Explorer. And since no one else has ever discovered these unseen cracks, the manufacturers have never developed patches for them.
Thus, in the parlance of the trade, these vulnerabilities are known as “zero-day exploits,” because it has been zero days since they have been uncovered and fixed. They are the Achilles’ heel of the security business, says a former senior intelligence official involved with cyberwarfare. Those seeking to break into networks and computers are willing to pay millions of dollars to obtain them.
Such as the US government. But if you thought PRISM was bad you ain't seen nuthin' yet. Because tying it all together is Endgame's appropriately named "Bonesaw" - what it is is practically The Matrix transplanted into the real cyber world.
According to Defense News’ C4ISR Journal and Bloomberg Businessweek, Endgame also offers its intelligence clients—agencies like Cyber Command, the NSA, the CIA, and British intelligence—a unique map showing them exactly where their targets are located. Dubbed Bonesaw, the map displays the geolocation and digital address of basically every device connected to the Internet around the world, providing what’s called network situational awareness. The client locates a region on the password-protected web-based map, then picks a country and city— say, Beijing, China. Next the client types in the name of the target organization, such as the Ministry of Public Security’s No. 3 Research Institute, which is responsible for computer security—or simply enters its address, 6 Zhengyi Road. The map will then display what software is running on the computers inside the facility, what types of malware some may contain, and a menu of custom-designed exploits that can be used to secretly gain entry. It can also pinpoint those devices infected with malware, such as the Conficker worm, as well as networks turned into botnets and zombies— the equivalent of a back door left open.
Bonesaw also contains targeting data on US allies, and it is soon to be upgraded with a new version codenamed Velocity, according to C4ISR Journal. It will allow Endgame’s clients to observe in real time as hardware and software connected to the Internet around the world is added, removed, or changed.
More on Bonesaw:
Marketing documents say “the Bonesaw platform provides a complete environment for intelligence analysts and mission planners to take a holistic approach to target discovery, reducing the time to create actionable intelligence and operational plans from days to minutes.”
“Bonesaw is the ability to map, basically every device connected to the Internet and what hardware and software it is,” says a company official who requested anonymity. The official points out that the firm doesn’t launch offensive cyber ops, it just helps.
Back to Wired:
[S]uch access doesn’t come cheap. One leaked report indicated that annual subscriptions could run as high as $2.5 million for 25 zero-day exploits.
That's ok though, the US government is happy to collect taxpayer money so it can pay these venture capital-backed private firms for the best in espionage technology, allowing it to reach, hack and manipulate every computer system foreign. And domestic.
How ironic: US citizens are funding Big Brother's own unprecedented spying program against themselves!
Not only that, but by allowing the NSA to develop and utilize technology that is leaps ahead of everyone else - utilize it against the US citizens themselves - America is now effectively war against itself... Not to mention every other foreign country that is a intelligence interest:
The buying and using of such a subscription by nation-states could be seen as an act of war. “If you are engaged in reconnaissance on an adversary’s systems, you are laying the electronic battlefield and preparing to use it,” wrote Mike Jacobs, a former NSA director for information assurance, in a McAfee report on cyberwarfare. “In my opinion, these activities constitute acts of war, or at least a prelude to future acts of war.” The question is, who else is on the secretive company’s client list? Because there is as of yet no oversight or regulation of the cyberweapons trade, companies in the cyber-industrial complex are free to sell to whomever they wish. “It should be illegal,” says the former senior intelligence official involved in cyberwarfare. “I knew about Endgame when I was in intelligence. The intelligence community didn’t like it, but they’re the largest consumer of that business.”
And there you have it: US corporations happily cooperating with the US government's own espionage services, however since the only thing that matters in the private sector is the bottom line, the Endgames of the world will gladly sell the same ultra-secret services to everyone else who is willing to pay top dollar: China, Russia, Iran...
in their willingness to pay top dollar for more and better zero-day exploits, the spy agencies are helping drive a lucrative, dangerous, and unregulated cyber arms race, one that has developed its own gray and black markets. The companies trading in this arena can sell their wares to the highest bidder—be they frontmen for criminal hacking groups or terrorist organizations or countries that bankroll terrorists, such as Iran. Ironically, having helped create the market in zero-day exploits and then having launched the world into the era of cyberwar, Alexander now says the possibility of zero-day exploits falling into the wrong hands is his “greatest worry.”
Does Alexander have reason to be worried? Oh yes.
In May, Alexander discovered that four months earlier someone, or some group or nation, had secretly hacked into a restricted US government database known as the National Inventory of Dams. Maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers, it lists the vulnerabilities for the nation’s dams, including an estimate of the number of people who might be killed should one of them fail. Meanwhile, the 2013 “Report Card for America’s Infrastructure” gave the US a D on its maintenance of dams. There are 13,991 dams in the US that are classified as high-hazard, the report said. A high-hazard dam is defined as one whose failure would cause loss of life. “That’s our concern about what’s coming in cyberspace—a destructive element. It is a question of time,” Alexander said in a talk to a group involved in information operations and cyberwarfare, noting that estimates put the time frame of an attack within two to five years. He made his comments in September 2011.
In other words, this massive cyberattack against the US predicted by "Emperor" Alexander, an attack in which as Alexander himself has said cyberweapons represent the 21st century equivalent of nuclear arms (and require in kind retaliation) whether false flag or real, is due... some time right around now.
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"It is about intimidation. It is about making us fearful to speak publicly. It has been working beautifully as this site is testimate to. We feel free to speak here as long as we think our identity is relatively protected. "
While that might be their intention, it isn't working. And I think you are dead wrong. I doubt there is one poster on this thread who thinks that the NSA can't trace their avatar back to their real identity in a matter of seconds. We simply use avatars to protect ourselves from morons and trolls on the site. But the posts here don't give me the feeling of intimidation. I, for one, would much rather be dead than live in their shitty Stasi world.
Alexander—who declined to be interviewed for this article—has concluded that such cyberweapons are as crucial to 21st-century warfare as nuclear arms were in the 20th.
And nuclear weapons were used only twice in history. And they nearly destroyed the planet. They never should have been developed. AND they NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER should have been given control to the US military. He's right, this is just like nuclear weapons of the 20th century -- the US military should not be in charge of it.
Some. PLEEEEEEAAAAASSSSEEEE, make this into a new Dr. Strangelove movie. I mean, this is too much.
ooooo, someone hacked a list of megadeaths by US dams.... I'm so scared. This justifies everything!!!!
Nuclear weapons were used against Civilian targets by America. And with plenty of emergent evidence that Japan was deliberately enticed into WW2 by the Allies, it should be a very loud "wake-up" call to everyone on the Planet.
Notice how America was very happy to use external expertise when developing nuclear weapons, then smartly "closed the door" on the repatriation of that expertise - which included their "so-called" friendly Allies.
Notice how the US were keen to imprison or execute those who dared to share the "secrets" of the "Bomb" workdwide - many who did so becasue they'd already seen what could have happened should the Axis powers have succeeded (names such as Rosenberg, Fuchs, etc.). Interesting though that the Russian High Command was quite capable of running their own research programme - and the "vital secrets" shaved at most one year of their development time!
Notice how America was keen on banning nuclear testing once America had developed the computing power to accurately simulate testing - "can't have anyone else developing a DETERRENT to US aggression can we!"
Now we've got the American-led "Espionage Arms Race" and "Connected Infrastructure Damage or Disablement Arms Race". Might be a good time to remember that there's another Country with 1/3rd of the Planet's population - a Country where they are just as smart as Americans (probably smarter since the majority don't have the IT infrastructure to allow overreliance on "easy sources" of information, so they need to do their legwork the "harder, traditional way"!) - and they have cornered the Lion's share of IT hardware manufacture - with all the R&D benefits that come with that. All "paid for" by everyone else who are willing customers for their cheap (and usually very reliable) their Industrial and Consumer products.
Pissing off the Chinese and their friends the Russians might be a very unwise move for the US military big-heads. An unwise move that everyone else Worldwide will "harvest" the consequences of should "things get interesting"!
The movie with Bruce Willis in Die Hard (part 3) talks about this capability (sort of).
However, low tech ALWAYS beats high tech.
Why you ask? Because low tech does not require a massive infrastructure to maintain itself. Remember this cyber command has one true and massive vulnerability....it is electricity.
If a Butlerian Jihad was run on every sensing device connected to then at the same time conducting asymmetrical kinetic operations, then....
This is SHAKE AND BAKE Intelligence, where information must be served up NOW. The only problem, unless these guys have developed the ability to peak into someone's mind, then Humint will always be relevant.
These guys are not only in charge of electronic intelligence, they are also in charge of INFORMATION OPERATIONS.
- Psychological Ops
- PAO
- Shaping and Influencing Ops
Makes me wonder what type information we in the public have personally run across on our daily lives that these guys have CLANDESTINELY altered. How many lethal information ops have been run against US citizens and non lethal Information ops that have decided political and economic contests with out our understanding of HOW and WHY.
This guy is a favorite of Rumsfeld's. About all I need to know to decide I do like or trust him..................
Guess I'll go ahead and have that fourth beer after all.
Like evolution happens by eating the sick! Real actors or gold miners don't broadcast their scripts and maps. Death by Big Data is your present, you are the digital product from the jump, get over the road you don't own and make your own. When the next narrative is required, there's always plenty of data to prove it post hoc.
Call me a crazy conspiracy theorist and an anti-semite but the common thread through a lot of this is Israel.
Strawman. Who runs Israel is what you should be focused on and that's the House of Rothschild.
They're probably about ready to unleash a massive False Flag attack. Leon Panetta had said in his confirmation hearing that the "next pearl harbor would be in the form of a cyber attack".
It was about one year before 9/11 that the PNAC (project for new american century) neo-cons came out with their white paper on what was needed for American supremacy in the 21st century:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
If you have time, go to page 50 of the pdf file and start reading there. On Page 51 they talk about a "new pearl harbor". Then, about 10 years later Panetta makes his comments about a "pearl harbor" in reference to cyber warfare. The paper talks about the need for American supremacy in Space and Cyber world...information technology. It also talks a little about weather modification systems, but I can't remember what page.
That PNAC paper should be required reading. The thugs let the cat out of the bag with that paper, all of them PNAC members.
Along with this one.
Following is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000." The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion makers, including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser participated.
The report, entitled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," is the framework for a series of follow-up reports on strategy.
A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1438.htm
Its not American supremecy though is it. Its corporation supremecy and TBTF banks supremecy all done on the American tax payers back.
When they breed in such benign places as Onondaga Hill (trust me), you can bet that all bets are off.
The bad news is that the Self-Absorbed have gained control.
The good news is that We are starting to recognize a pattern.
You have to wonder about the millions of people who work for these agencies and corporations like the NSA, Dell Corporation, FBI, Microsoft, Oracle, Google, PHP, Security, etc etc.
I know someone who has been totally into exposing the United States' authoritarian global plans. Then he got a good tech job at Dell corporation, and no kidding, the guy is now always got an excuse for the U.S. snooping and other high-tech surveillance shit.
And that's how it goes. It's sad that we have to have people completely stripped of jobs, etc, for them to care. When they are enticed by a good paycheck from Fuckers like Michael Dell (a TOTAL traitor!!) then we got problems....Because it ain't just the Guv'mint that's the problem....
Their support is only because their futures have not yet been altered. Pensions/retirement plans are still in place. Give them time. I had a retired Navy man (dentist) state to me that communism would not be that bad. He is not worried about his grandchildren; they can deal with life just as he did. Another military man said he doesn't pay attention of world news because there are so many things we do not know.
Again, when they are left with nothing in their savings accounts, they'll lift their heads up and consider the possibilities of what is in store for them. (cull)
It shows that many people will operate against their own conscious when they are cajoled with a nice salary and perks. It's also why so many of these American Apes do nothing when they obviously know the up and up. Many Americans are VERY informed. They just simply like the money and will protect their benefactors (masters) at all cost when the price is right.
Speak Truth To Power
or
Speak Truth about Power
and risk imprisonment
A few old=fashioned fraggings will thin out the "leadship" and put the fear into them.
Who is wearing the tinfoil hat again?
This sounds like the ultimate tinfoil hat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6FBSNK_pQY
Mark Zuck aka Jacob Michael Greenberg
Is it to stop signal leakage, or EMP?
Would it stop a Russian ICBM?
News like this makes me want to move somewhere 250 miles from any tactical civillian/military location.
Good question.
I'm also of the same opinion that living near fascist infrastructure, stuff that fascists would fight each other over, is much more of a liability than an asset.
I suspect this super hero of cyber warfare is just another wanker who blew his way up the promotion ladder. Sadly, he will retire young on a big federal pension and then go to work for the corporations he gave huge cost plus contracts to, just another day in corrupt America. We are giving ancient Rome a run for their money.
Funny how Obama was going to lecture and threaten China over hacking allegations. Snowden pissed on that parade! My god, Obama is pissing all overhimself with rage! Send in the kill teams he screams as he knocks his nobel peace prize off his office wall in a fit of uncontrolled rage!
Only thing missing is that Clinton bitch, the laughing murder who thinks America has a right to kill across any national border she chooses.
+1. Keep the car running.
+1. Keep the car running.
This part is not true
At least 20 years ago there was a virus that sent bad frequencies to a monitor causing it to overheat and there was one that rammed the hard drive heads into the stops repeatedly until they broke. There are probably other examples of malware that destroys hardware that I am not aware of.
Leon was informed that blowback from billions and billions thrown at unyielding resource owners's warehouses of information was inevitable as Saudi boxcutters. Brother Leon learned to listen hard as the shut was hitting the fan. He's back in Carmel Valley discussing issues now; job well done.
So how do you get eductated in the area of "hacking"? It sounds like the most promising, lucrative field of my childrens generation. If I'm going to pay for their education it might as well be in something they can earn a living at and the field appears to be growing by leaps and bounds.
Haaretz: "In U.S. snooping affair, Israeli firms at risk"
By Steve Sailer on June 22, 2013 at 9:28pm
Who do you think got that duplicitous little jewess embedded with Gen Betrayus to topple him? The govt spy agencies are involved in an internal war.
The local boys are pissed tonight. Gunshots at dusk have been brisk tonight.
glad to hear that. All one can do is fight the good fight. I just remind myself that God is in control and vengeance is His. Know what is valuable: family, faith, trustworthy friends.
God is in control? Feels a bit like he/she has been on vacation for centuries which for him/her must be like a day or two. Not belittling or discounting anyone's beliefs but for my money it's about time for the vengence part. I say this as it now feels as though the masses no longer have enough power, even in large numbers to affect the authority with a good revolution.
My impression is that the American public does not feel well. Being in medical field, I have never seen in my life so much liver disease, fatty liver (plastic nonmetabolize-able ingredient in food substances) are rendering them chronically ill. The complicated lives they lead also absorb a good deal of time. There is good reason to believe this was in the plan as well. Sick people don't fight much.
There are police stations in every small town. NYC and other large cities can be infiltrated by "mercenaries" but small town america is where teh war will be fough. I think the good news is, everyone is talking about it. Considering the implications of a bankrupt country with a security force working for the banks, and the dismal economy with no real job bill in the making, the fight or flight is not even a question anymore.
I have faith in Americans. Don't give up. Agenda 21 has proven to be the Tow Truck to repo America. I think the set up is obvious now. Solutions are what americans are all about.
Seems like we have allowed him to be booted from every aspect of our lives, maybe it's time to invite him back in.
...yep...
+1 FMF. Just sitting here on the tailgate of my truck.
'This 'One-Way Escalator', rotates on a fin'rickety sanatorium of quantifiable empathy awash in apathetic entropy and complacency... crying-out-loud for a Civil World War twas never to come, cept-thy-endSong!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nLJklAtUh8
"...But just six months later, Alexander and the rest of the American intelligence community suffered a devastating defeat when they were surprised by the attacks on 9/11..."
horseshit!! no one was surprised!! it was a bush crime syndicate attack on the usa using nuclear weapons and my guess is that the traitor criminal keith alexander was part of it....
What a waste of technological investment, if they really wanted to find terrorists/traitors all they would need is a mirror.
People In the military are carefully trained to do what they are told. They won't waver in doing what the four star wants.
Oh oh, what if I screamed for help here? Who would come to help? The answer is NO ONE would come to help because no one would hear me. Holy Shit, my life is at risk, can I survive on my own without some .gov supervision?
Being completely alone is enlightening. I guess I had better watch my own ass.
...and,
At the beshest of his zionist masters, Alexander imposed an electronic super prison over amerika. He became the satrap of the NSDAPUSA, the secret ruler, taking orders only form The City and Tel Aviv....generals, congressmen, even 'presidents' jumped at his every command from his secret OKW bunker in Ft Meade......each week he reviewed his plans via encrypted VTC with Jamie, Lloyd, and The Owners of The Two Cities....
Iranian Films Ltd presents the new Blockbuster Thriller
Keith Alexander
THE AMERICAN HITLER
Internet is a wonderful thing. Regrettably virtually all of the devices run on Von Newman architecture, that by default is easily exploitable in any form. So what is the option, well for the tech savvy, just build your own chip with FPGA, sure it will be buggy, but hey, at least, the vulnerability will definitely be unique, so it is virtually guaranteed to be non exploitable. The catch is, though, you will have to spend quite a lot of time, designing such a custom hardware, even if you decide to use OpenCores and customize the modules, for higher security.
So the other (easier) alternative, is just use Linux :)
Um. Didn't the NSA write substantial portions of the security stuff in Linux?
Now we are talking to the Taliban and are going to arm El Quada in Syria. I thought they were our "enemies"
This is so far beyond belief, the only way America will ever be strong again is to disband the CIA, NSA, this town of the general's, fire Obama and everyone who voted for the Patriot act and all theses abuses and go back to the roots, the Constitution, pull the military from where it doesn't belong.
Who is paying for all of this? Not I.
If these systems can inadvertantly or otherwise trigger nuclear Armageddon I just want to say in advance that I have enjoyed reading and sometimes responding to all the posts here at Zero Hedge.
The expression nuclear family may soon have an expanded meaning.
So what did Corzine do with the cash?
Or is this too complicated for the NSA?
The reality is that if not America then someone else would also go down the path we are now on.
The technology is amazing in its reach but horrifying in its potential to do harm to innocent people if used in the wrong manner.
And that is the problem, all of these things will end up being abused for reasons that have nothing to do with the security of the USA.
"So what did Corzine do with the cash?
Or is this too complicated for the NSA?"
That's in the category of "they don't want to know."
Actually, I think that's in the category of "they absolutely know".
That is the kind of information that can and has been used to exercise virtually absolute control over someone with power or influence, or even just some poor schmuck who you can make to be in the wrong place at the right time.
The Digital Dr. Strangeglove.
Talk about a totally suicidal strategy. Just like the article suggests at the end, the more of this stuff they build the more it's going to spread all over the world, and we'll be left with some bizarre new post-industrial hacker anarchy.
Not to mention all the Snowdens out there that won't feel bad about slipping off with a Zip Drive as it becomes more and more the heroic thing to do.
Go ahead and try to control the internet like one of your shopping mall ghettos, Baby Boomers. We'll lulz when China ends up owning all the copyrights to those junk Hollywood films you guard so zealously.
http://www.fakenation.info/please/david-brooks-demands-you-respect-his-authority
Go ahead panic. Oh lord, I have tools that will basically reveal any unprotected network, it's hardware and what software it's running.
I and almost any sysadmin.
Go ahead panic. Oh lord, I have tools that will basically reveal any unprotected network, it's hardware and what software it's running.
I and almost any sysadmin.
Now imagine that the NSA have backdoors in Cisco/Whatever firewalls and can enumerate protected networks too.
@"..Alexander would never get the chance to serve in Vietnam." ...
there is a full retard sentence, break it down and you will see
it for what it is.
How can you trust a friend who goes through your wallet, checks your mail and watches your woman undress when you aren't looking?
Why should Canada, Mexico, GB and others follow the USA.
I'm Canadian, and I have had it with USA .gov. I have many American friends, many who are vets that saw action. Spoke to a WW2 vet today and a friend who used to be in the 82nd Airborne. They are great guys, but their government has gone too far. They don't like it either and no longer live in the land of the free.
As far as I'm concerned, the Obama administration doesn't deserve me as an ally.
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story (1971) Full Album [Original Vinyl LP] Plus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOGiiQTyzJA
.
The Judge Should Know
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWFVUxjpKQY
Fuck Obama.
the banality of evil is what we, today, call
security, all little Eichmann's
strutting.
.
Ann Peebles " I Can't Stand The Rain" (1974)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSnHTRZ6PSg
Hmmm, plz, I don't buy iranian hack of Saudi Aramco and Qataris, but Jamie Dimon has couple of billions of reasons to short the "supply", me thinks .....
NSA is a fine place to buy some extremely lucrative services .... CME runs NSA or other way round ?
It may well be that some of theses people that fancy them selves as the real power behind the thrones like the Bilderberg or the CFR may not be pulling all the stings on the puppets. The best defense is a good offense but i have to wonder, who do these people think is the enemy?
BREAKING - Snowys on the move folks,
He boarded Aeroflot SU213 a little while ago bound for Shermetyevo, and than on to Reykjavic,
Go Snowy, go:)
I wonder will he have to go through Russian passport control, lol:)
He's on the ground at SVO at about 17.00 local time, thats 14.00 for me and breakfast time for you lot:)
Nice of Vlad to help out:)
Sorry, my mistake, it's nothing to do with Vlad apparently, he didn't even know Snowball was gettin on the flight:)
Tell it to the hot gymnast buddy, coz I'm not buyin it:)
For a bunch of murdering criminals, the KGB are kinda likeable,
Waaaaaaaaay more likeable than the fckn boring CIA,
Morning ladies:)
Wow,
HKSAR has issued a press release,
And it basically tells the Dept of Justice to go fck itself,
"The US govt has not provided sufficient information to process a provisional warrant of arrest"
This just gets better,
Go Snowy go,
The chicks in Iceland are hot,
The foods not great though, :)
SU213 just passed Novosibirsk,
He's gone,
No way Snowball ends up like poor Bradley Manning now,
Somewhere John Poindexter is smiling...TIA
so i guess the new "smart" meters that the power companies are installing on your house are not good for our privacy either...
"all those anti-virus programs you have on computer to "make it safe" from backdoors and trojans? Guess what - they are the backdoors and trojans!"
Nothing new here including Comodo CIS since mid 2011 and that rt.com, aljazeera.com etc. IP rediriction on 06-07 september 2012 was really sneaky.
Bullshit, bull shit bullllllll shitttt.
all this spying tech. LOL, for smart people who wish to open the eye's wide shut... we are guilty when they want us to be guilty..avoid stupid moves in plain sight (internet, internet, phone, mail) sure. but understand the policy of "a throw away gun" planted on the suspect after his untimely removal by suicide by police.
the state does not need proof, they can make all they need..they just need targets.
random acts against powerful people, .gov, resistance, if you must, but don't be stupid about it, some of us like our sleep.
They need electricity to do their evil, wicked, mean and nasty work, so if the power gets cut, the game is over.
Should the "Power" ever be cut, the last concern of any person alive will be cyber-info.
The "Power" allows this world to support almost 7 billion humans, with out which it will quickly revert to its natural homostasis.
Game over indeed.
Come on Peak Oil.
All communications have been monitored since the 1940's, so these revelations are nothing new. Snowden is most likely controlled opposition just like Julian Assange revealing info that has been known for decades. Echelon has been around for decades; it has been written about, talked about and confirmed back in the 90's.
However, what these revelations prove is that we are living inside Cyber-space. The Universe is a giant computer, only bytes of data that can be accessed by anyone with the right technology. There is nowhere to hide, eventually almost everyone will be accessed remotely and controlled wirelessly through their DNA. Moved along like zombie herds at the whim of their master, the devil, who controls the Pentagon, the White House and all other human power centers? The Good News is that the devil's power, though great in human terms is nothing in comparison to the power of Jesus Christ who defeated him and made mockery out of him on the Cross. The only defense we have is the power of God, given to us freely; we have the Helmet of Salvation and the shield of Faith, defenses, that no weapon can penetrate. I have a sound mind that cannot be zombified, hypnotized or controlled. And I know how to smell BS from truth because I know THE TRUTH - the ABSOLUTE TRUTH that has made me free in Spirit, Soul and Body. This Snowden affair does not pass the smell test, so I'm 100% sure it's a Psy-Op.
Finally the man in charge of the NSA is not a man at all; this Alexander dude is just another puppet whose strings are being pulled by spiritually wicked ones in heavenly places, namely by Satan and his minions. He's just another evil-doer born to do wicked works and go into perdition. The depth of the depravity of such people is known only to God but will be fully revealed when their secrets are exposed before all creation on the Day of Judgment. The real power of surveillance lies with God who knows our thoughts even before we think them, who knows the end from the beginning, from whom there is no place to hide, no not in the depths of hell or in the furthest reaches of the heavens or in the depths of the seas (read Psalm 139). God wrote our DNA, he doesn't need to collect samples to use against us, He is Good, so He works to save us not to destroy us like the NSA and other evil organizations desire to do. God has not given me the spirit of Fear so I fear not these devils in human skin, my God has already saved me. Even though my body may be killed, they cannot touch my soul. Amen and Amen!
Had you said that in Rome when Nero was in charge, you would be in prison in a heartbeat and you would miss your friends in the catacombs.
"The only defense we have is the power of God, given to us freely.."
Yeah, that's it--turn yourself over to the invisible man in the clouds. If you're that completely terrified of everything, why not just kill yourself? Wouldn't that bring you closer to your god?
God is no man and in no clouds. God is power however you choose to frame it. For me, God resides in my heart and is a source of strength and hope that we shall overcome. Take it or leave it.....but do not comment on something you have no understanding of....you seem like the terrified one. I am sure the religious dolt you blame feels bad for the poor representation of that which should be construed as spirituality; the spirit. You believe in spirit, correct?
Have a +1 from Satan.
"You believe in spirit, correct?"
No, not really.
Again "tip of the iceberg." As Bugs Bunny famously said however "you're gettin' warmer Jack." This article presents was is in fact STILL an illusion of control...but there are controls built in to this "regime" and unless and until they are discussed then obviously we're still stuck watching Saturday morning cartoons. I do find it interesting that the system can't create jobs or produce a booming economy. Go ahead..."write a program that gets all those pesky capital flows under control." As with all other empires "nothing that debasing the money can't solve." I say Colonel Clink with real money and this empire goes the way as all the others.
Excuse me. Will the circle jerk ride attendant please stop this shit of a ride called being an American citizen and part of the human race please stop the fucking ride so I can get off. Any human on this earth can see (except the brain washed high school kids post 1985) that this whole experiment of mass physiological people control is going to end very, very bad. People are getting to the point where they trust only their dog. I can not wait until Obama starts to tell the school kids to rat their own parents out.
All this has been done before in Nazi Germany and ended very bad. But heck, high schools do not teach any of that do they. And folks this is why we are fucked. History is a funny thing how we keep repeating the same shit. Same with theRoman Empire. Those AS’s were greedy and taxed to death just like we are. However, hey, it’s for our own good and society. Well you know what, fuck society.
Well I'll be damned,(it appears we all are) I am still alive this morning and all without .gov protection. How the fuck can that be? The last I checked the talking rectangle, it told me that I could not possibly survive a moment without being extorted by mandate.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard it all before. I'm so sure that I just don't realize how .gov is protecting my freedoms. Well, .gov where the fuck were you last night huh? You fucking whore! Oh that's right, spending 100 million of taxpayer dollars on an African safari photoshoot. What was I thinking?
Well the Fed's just pulled the plug on the American Thinker Site......Next they will come after ZH
Resistance is futile, yoiu will be assimulated
Keep the car running.
Still there: http://www.americanthinker.com/
The so-called "American Thinker" site seems to have been "assimilated" at inception.
In the "About" page of this supposedly American site, they say with a straight face:
"The right to exist and the survival of the State of Israel are of great importance to us."
At least they are forthright about their priorities.
"someone, or some group or nation, had secretly hacked into a restricted US government database known as the National Inventory of Dams. Maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers"
Oooo, I'll bet that file was really securely stored... NOT. While I'm sure there are some small, badly maintained earthen dams that could be breached with explosives, the vast majority of dams would take one hell of a large amount of explosives to breach in an operation that would be easy to see in action and stop.
Industrial security on which the fedgov DHS has already supposedly spent billions is still a complete joke from what I've read. The ammonium nitrate explosion at the Texas plant that happened right after the Boston bombing may have been an example of how lax the security actually is.
No one is even at the switch much less spying. They simply take taxpayer funded paychecks and that is really what this is all about. Who do these fucks think they are fooling?
"In a publicly released letter to Alexander shortly after The New York Times exposed the program, US representative Rush Holt, a member of the committee, angrily took him to task for not being forthcoming about the wiretapping: “Your responses make a mockery of congressional oversight.”
And yet he's still in his job position and about to retire. Thus, so-called "Congessional oversight" mocks itself.
New blog post on Canadian Jr. Miners at Mining Muppet: http://miningmuppet.blogspot.com/ This one focuses entirely on TK.V.
All this time I thought the SEC had the world's largest collection of midget tranny porn. It turns out I was wrong.
Evil
I bet the israelis have access to every bit of what the NSA gathers, and then some.
If we make Texas independent, we have chance to start with a clean sheet of parchment and with the mistakes of the old regime fresh in our minds. We could give freedom and capitalism a second chance. Ya'll come to Texas and let's try.
Made myself a couple of orange-pineapple-banana-vodka smoothies, had a couple of smokes, fed the goldfish, recycled their water, watered some plants in the garden, took a piss in my back yard and ate a chicken sandwich.
Just thought you fuckheads over at NSA would like to know what I was doing while I wasn't on the internet.
Later, I plan on printing out a photo of General Keith Alexander, going into the smallest room in the house, sitting down and reading a magazine article and then putting General Alexander's photo behind me.
Kill me now, ass-holes, or leave everybody the fuck alone. YOU are the threat to freedom in America, not anybody on this comment board or anyone who frequents ZH. We are the patriots. Don't make us the resistance, because there will be hell to pay for all.
Just go the fuck away and take the losers in congress and the whore house with you.
Ass-hats, every one of them.
I refuse to be governed by this kind and will not be.
Actually, the last straw for me was on Thursday or Friday when the AMA ruled that obesity is a disease.
Sure, now we can pay for useless treatment prescribed by numbskull doctors who are only gaming the system for every fat-assed slob who eats too many cheetos, ice cream sundaes and MacDoodads and doesn't have the self-esteem to work out two or three times a week for 1/2 hour a day.
Fuck this. I'm through. Turning 60 in less than six months, so, really, what the fuck have I got to lose. Jail me, shoot me, fuck you. I ain't playing any more.
Maybe the real reason they want to see, hear, and detect everything is because they are looking for the different species of aliens living among us and some of their agendas are not favorable to the ones currently in "control" of the planet's inhabitants. Just throwing it out there, rabbit holes everywhere...
BREAKING!!! UFO ALIEN DISCLOSURE by Canadian Minister of Defense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQdvYFMBAU
#92 68th Convocation of the Rose Cross Order. National Security Act, Treason, Truman, The Plan in their own words
Marcy Kaptur concurs sheople
hellox2
for Macs there is an app called "little snitch" it warns you when somthing in your computer tries to 'phone home' you can then deny permission and it is blacklisted
Mac have Unix roots so they are much- harder to hack-ive never seen a Mac virus in the wild as we have seen with windows-no need to update once an hour as with Windows
some viruses, if they detect little snitch, get the hell out of that computer-fast. by shutting down and deleting themselves..you can also go to 'Open DNS' which is another layer of security.
ive read that using new or fully cleaned galvanized steel garbage cans-store as much as you can-buy several IF this is true-will thwart any EMP damage.....just saying
I think Snowden and Assange are heros-i dont beleive for a second that 50 terrorists plot where stopped. more paper pushers Bullshit-every time they DO catch a terrorist or stem a plot it is paraded across the media-havent seen more than 1 or 2
Many of these people Nancy shit Pelosi etc etc etc have corruption and other things to hide, and im sure Snowden has them sweating. probably 90% of all secrets are coverups of blatant corruption
i cant beleive these liberals would sell us down the river along with the conservatives-oh well, they all work for the same master
Alexander, Petraeus, Dempsey ..... 3 stooges, clowns in costumes (well 2/3 anyhow). Tell me again how you prevented 9/11, or the Boston bombing. Tell me how great our generals are that we are now willing to negotiate with Neanderthals aka Taliban.. Tell me again exactly what Iraq accomplished. Tell me why we are arming and training AL Queda....AGAIN. Tell me the truth behind Benghazi and tell me about the CAMP BASTION COVERUP where the neaderthals destroyed $200 million worth of aircraft... Yeah show me your greatness sending our boys to ride over Iranian IED's day after day after day down the same routes with ROE designed to disable basic defense. You should have sent the IED's back to Teheran on a daily basis. Generals are pawns who lick the balls of the politicians who run them. They will lie, cheat, break the law, violate their oaths... all in the name of self advancement.... re read your oath to support and defend the Constitution... YOU ARE DISHONORABLOE AND NOT TRUSTWORTHY.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA&feature=player_embedded
Dude, that was doubleplusgood funny. I really did laugh out lad!