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I wonder if anyone trulyhas any idea what’s going on in “Top Secret America”. So much information, so little “truth”.
you know... these newspapers need to be reminded there is a war going on here. Top Secret is supposed to be just that.
Is it possible to have too much security? I do not know if this is that big a problem.
I just read it, and it is, well, boring. The basic revelation: we have a pantload of intelligence agencies and contractors, and we're not sure they are effective at either inter- or intra- agency communications. Shocker.
Meanwhile, five miles southeast of the White House, the DHS has broken ground for its new headquarters, to be shared with the Coast Guard. DHS, in existence for only seven years, already has its own Special Access Programs, its own research arm, its own command center, its own fleet of armored cars and its own 230,000-person workforce, the third-largest after the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
“...There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed..” Luke 12:2
Lots of surprises coming.
Now who would want to willfully damage American intelligence gathering ?
Simple answer, the authors, Dana Priest and William M. Arkin .
Dana Priest and William Arkin have long history of leaking vital national security secrets, as well as publishing agit-prop to advance their own causes.
The Washington Posts Dana Priest received the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for her persistent, painstaking reports on secret black site prisons and other controversial features of the governments counterterrorism campaign. Never mind that to this day there is no evidence that these secret CIA prisons ever existed.
But perhaps Dana Priest has her own agenda. She is a peace scholar for the United States Institute of Peace. She is also married to William Goodfellow, who is the Executive Director of the the Center for International Policy (CIP).
Here is a little background from Discover The Networks about the Center For International Policy:
http://97.74.65.51/Printable.aspx?ArtId=11573
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6991
Americas Red Army
One of the most sophisticated of Fentons anti-war projects is the co-mingling of Win Without War and the Center for International Policy (CIP).
Before 9/11, CIP, a Fenton Communications client, mainly acted as Fidel Castros greatest think tank ally. Much of its million-dollar budget was spent lobbying to end economic sanctions and travel restrictions against Cuba.
Now, it has another mission. Fenton has established a war room with CIP called The Iraq Policy Information Program (IPIP). Its main job is getting the anti-Bush foreign policy message out to the media and providing guests for talk shows. A featured speaker of the IPIP is former ambassador Joe Wilson, one of the Bush administrations most vocal enemies.
Like Moveon.org and Win Without War, the contact for the Iraq Policy Information Program is Fenton Communications. Win Without War also collects tax-deductible donations through CIP.
Here Dana Priest and Mel Goodman shared a stage behind the CIP banner in October 2003:
http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/8458371_VotEv#939741809_j3Ni5-A-LB
Mel Goodman is a member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), which is an organization that pleads with former and current CIA officers to break their oaths and leak secrets that would hurt our national security.
William Arkin has a similar background.
Arkin is a former Greenpeace “researcher.” He has also worked for the radical left Institute for Policy Studies and Human Rights Watch, and even the notorious leftwing fantasist, Seymour Hersh.
In fact, Mr. Arkin considers himself more of an activist than a journalist. (Not that there is any discernible difference in our one party media.)
From the Washington Post, via Lexis-Nexus:
Explosive Analyst
William Arkin, Giving Opinions Left and Right
By Howard Kurtz
Friday, May 24, 2002; Page C01
He insists hes not a journalist.
In fact, hes an activist who works for the liberal group Human Rights Watch.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/2-reporters-behind-the-wps-latest-leak
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When almost 900,000 people have Top Secret clearances you really have to wonder. What are the odds that you could get the entire population of Philadelphia to keep their mouths shut about anything?
This story to me just illustrates that government is pretty much structurally incapable of managing ANYTHING efficiently, be that intelligence, health care, school lunches, etc.
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Boy, I had to chuckle at that one!
CA....
However, that being said, the nature of growth described is in the very DNA of bureaucracies. Give someone a title and he must build a kingdom. Look at the Social Security System, Obamacare, Medicare - look at any of them. They are all bloated with unnecessary people. And, sadly most now have a union to protect them and their jobs and reduction in force is next to impossible.
Seems to be a running theme here with the 4th Branch 5th Columnists, when they need to run cover for their leftist Friends of Government. So I will say it again;
Imagine that, the WaPo complaining about the same Homo-Leninists who they covet and cover while participating in the political class status racketeering just to keep their jobs.
Thats rich, Beltway Boys pretending not to be Butt-boys on the Potomac.