There is no problem that more bureaucracy won't solve.
That's a plus? Will it help find Mohammad Atta?
CHINA
IRAN
NORTH KOREA
Where are our batallions of crack specialists on those various nations' languages, culture, inner bureaucratic workings, military, politics, geography, history? If I see another ad for a Dari, Pashto or Kurdish language specialist, I think my head is going to explode. Sheesh. Who has the REAL WMDS (NUKES, CHEMS, BIOS) the ICBM DELIVERY CAPABILITIES (under development), and the WILL to attack the USA?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
The NSA Is Building the Countrys Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
The former NSA official held his thumb and forefinger close together:
We are that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.
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For his part, Inglis simply engaged in a bit of double-talk, emphasizing the least threatening aspect of the center: Its a state-of-the-art facility designed to support the intelligence community in its mission to, in turn, enable and protect the nations cybersecurity. While cybersecurity will certainly be among the areas focused on in Bluffdale, what is collected, how its collected, and what is done with the material are far more important issues. Battling hackers makes for a nice coverits easy to explain, and who could be against it? Then the reporters turned to Hatch, who proudly described the center as a great tribute to Utah, then added, I cant tell you a lot about what theyre going to be doing, because its highly classified.
And then there was this anomaly: Although this was supposedly the official ground-breaking for the nations largest and most expensive cybersecurity project, no one from the Department of Homeland Security, the agency responsible for protecting civilian networks from cyberattack, spoke from the lectern. In fact, the official whod originally introduced the data center, at a press conference in Salt Lake City in October 2009, had nothing to do with cybersecurity. It was Glenn A. Gaffney, deputy director of national intelligence for collection, a man who had spent almost his entire career at the CIA. As head of collection for the intelligence community, he managed the countrys human and electronic spies.
Way to go, Panetta! Spill your guts to the whole world! The cherry on top will be when the Ruskies, Chinks and N. Koreans are given security clearances so they don’t miss anything!