Spokesman John Pike: self-promoterPosted on 01/17/2002 5:01:01 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
John Pike is everywhere, promoting himself in the media as "a national security expert"
Just today in the Christian Science Monitor: "It makes me nervous that, like the British, we've acquired an empire in a fit of absent-mindedness,"
says John Pike,a national security expert at GlobalSecurity.org. The key aspects of today's US military deployments, according to Pike, are their scope, and their durability. "They're not just a bunch of guys passing through," says Pike.
Let's take a look at John Pike. Spokesman John Pike: self-promoter
[Excerpt from his site] John Pike, one of the world's leading experts on defense, space and intelligence policy, is Director of GlobalSecurity.org, a nonprofit nonpartisan organization which he founded in December 2000. GlobalSecurity.org is focused on innovative approaches to the emerging security challenges of the new millennium. Internationally renowned for his depth of knowledge on a broad array of issues, Pike is widely noted for his ability to translate complex technical information into concise and pithy soundbites. He has consistently provided insight and understanding of world affairs, military, space and satellite technology to policy makers, the press and the public at large.
Pike previously worked for nearly two decades with the Federation of American Scientists, where he directed the Space Policy, Cyberstrategy, Military Analysis, Nuclear Resource and Intelligence Resource projects. Pike developed the Federation's award winning website, and was personally responsible for creating most of the site's online content. He has also been at the forefront of utilizing satellite imagery to monitor worldwide weapons facilities.
Frequently called upon to testify before Congress, Pike in 1983 established the Space Policy Working Group, comprised of Congressional staff and advocacy organizations concerned with missile defense issues. Ten years later, he set up the Military Spending Group, composed of public interest organizations working on alternative security strategies. Pike helped form the National Campaign to Save the ABM Treaty, and served on its Executive Committee. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has served on a variety of non-governmental boards and advisory committees, including the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Peace Research and European Security Studies Center, and the Verification Technology Information Centre of London. He has been a consultant to numerous groups, including the United Nations Group of Government Experts on Confidence Building Measures in Outer Space. In 1991 he participated in the NASA International Near-Earth Object (NEO) Detection Panel, and served as a consultant to the NEO Working Group of the International Astronomical Union.
Pike regularly provides commentary and analysis on space and security issues to PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, NPR, and numerous print and online publications. Aerospace Weekly called him "one of the country's most credible space industry observers," and the Christian Science Monitor wrote that he was "one of the handful of American observers equally conversant with both the technological and political aspects of strategic defense and arms control." In 1986 the National Journal named Pike as one of the 150 "People Who Make a Difference" in Washington. In 1988 U.S. News and World Report, citing his work on space and defense, listed him among the 250 members of the "New American Establishment." And in 1994 he was named one of the 25 "Rising Stars Who Will Lead us into the Next Space Age" by the National Space Society's Ad Astra magazine.
In 1991 Pike received the "Public Service Award" of the Federation of American Scientists, and in 1997 he was presented with the Open Source "Award of the Golden Candle" for his work on intelligence related issues. The author of more than 200 studies and articles on national security and space, Pike began his career as a political consultant and science writer. [End Excerpt]
Current Projects and Initiatives at the Federation of American Scientists… (How interesting but not surprising that John Pike's doing most of them)
"John Pike, a spokesman for the Federation of American Scientists and perhaps the shrewdest SDI foe in the galaxy..." -- The Washington Times
"Mr. Pike is regularly quoted in the press and has provided what some Congressional staff members consider the best analyses of the arms control implications of specific `star wars experiments'." -- The New York Times
"... one of the most informed outsiders on the `Star Wars' campaign. Reporters turn to him, lawmakers consult him, and the Pentagon disagrees with him." --Defense Week
Abolition 2000
The Acronym Institute
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
The Bellona Foundation
British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Business Executives for National Security
Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Nonproliferation Project
Center for Arms Control, Energy, and Environmental Studies,
Centre for Defence & International Security Studies (CDISS)
Center for Defense Information (CDI)
Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute for International Studies
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
Council for a Livable World
The Henry L. Stimson Center
Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
National Security Archive
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Nuclear Control Institute
Nuclear Files @ Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Physicians for Global Survival (PGS) - Canada
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Preserving Nuclear Security by Kathleen C. Bailey
Proposition One Committee
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Union of Concerned Scientists ---Scientists and Religious Leaders Join Forces for the Environment
Verification Technology Information Centre (VERTIC)
Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
The liberal media need a liberal expert to give them a perspective they can understand and use to bolster their opinions.
And didn't Pike once get in trouble for claiming a degree (PhD) that he didn't have?
Nevertheless, fas.org is chock full of info.
Jeffrey Davis
John Pike and Steven Aftergood, researchers at the Washington, D.C.- based Federation of American Scientists (FAS), make a living talking about what government officials can't--be it Star Wars, the Pentagon's "black budget," or nearly a century's accumulation of classified documents.
Pike (left), FAS's Space Policy Project Director, has emerged as the country's top independent expert on Star Wars research. Aftergood (right) publishes the monthly Secrecy & Government Bulletin, a frequent source of media scoops on classified information.
What secret information would you most like the new administration to declassify?
Aftergood: Something no one has even asked for, rather than more details on the Cuban Missile Crisis or Watergate. I suspect there are unreported scandals we don't know anything about. But I don't expect it will be any easier to uncover them.
Why not? Can't we expect some reform in government secrecy?
Aftergood: Secrecy serves the interests of the executive branch against the legislative--that's a temptation against reform. And regardless of what the new administration wants to change, there'll be resistance from bureaucracy. The Nixon administration declared that most documents could be declassified within ten years. Carter shortened that to six years. All these were executive orders from the president, but they never happened. Even explicit directives aren't enough.
What's on the FAS agenda now?
Aftergood: Rather than trying to penetrate the machinations of the Bush administration, we'll promote the need for urgent change. That means less research, more advocacy. It's not going to change until there's a demand for change.
Now that Bush is history, what's the outlook for Star Wars?
Pike: The reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. Clinton has said he'll spend as much on Star Wars as Bush. And he's chosen a secretary of defense who doesn't represent much of a change from the last one. The one change they are going to make--dismantling the formal Strategic Defense Initiative office--will make the situation worse by reducing the visibility of the program.
So what will keep SDI going?
Pike: Star Wars has gone on for so long that it's got a tremendous institutional and political constituency behind it. National security issues may be a bigger topic now, but it's not clear who's going to bell the cat.
Then you're a pessimist?
Pike: No, I'm a realist.
--Jeffrey Davis
Tuesday January 15, 2002 05:00 PM EST / Budget Cuts Threaten Space Statione-- "The space station has been a very important foreign policy tool and now NASA is making it a foreign policy problem," says John Pike, a space analyst. "It's like we tricked countries into participating and now we won't let them go on with their experiments."
Monday January 7, 2002 6:24 PM ET /Fla. Military Base Knew About Plane-- Those are probably sufficient to shoot down a small plane, said John Pike, a military expert with GlobalSecurity.org in Alexandria, Va. But they would have little effect on a hijacked airliner plummeting from the sky. The base doesn't have any surface-to-air missiles defending it, officials said."
October 8, 2001/Security Chief Must Battle Bureaucracy-- National security experts also say Ridge must define his agency's role and scope. "What is homeland defense? Everyone's in favor of it, but how will we recognize it when we have it?" asked Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a national security think tank in Alexandria, Va. "Where does homeland defense leave off and law enforcement begin? His big challenge is going to be defining homeland defense broadly enough to actually accomplish something."
May 23, 2001/U.S. Wooing Student Hackers Yet another expert was unimpressed. "That doesn't strike me as being a lot of money," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org."Putting a couple dozen security professionals on the government payroll is a drop in the bucket." Pike said the problem is not the lack of information systems (IS) professionals; it is more critical to set security standards on commercial vendors that protect trade secrets, intellectual property, and software source code. "I don't think it's the sort of issue that could be addressed by reallocating personnel," he said.
Feds may be reading your mail-- "They are looking for thugs and drugs," says John Pike, expert on security and intelligence issues for the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, D.C……. For those concerned about potential abuses, the issue is simple: "What it comes down to is, somebody is reading your mail," says Pike, who serves as director of the Federation of American Scientists' Intelligence Project. "If it is an international transaction, the National Security Agency is monitoring it," Pike adds. "The target is wide open: Essentially, it consists of anything that would be of interest to the U.S. government -- and the rest of the English-speaking world." And no one is watching to see what they do with the information.
November 13, 2001/War's swing south changes U.S. focus-- John Pike of Globalsecurity.org, a defense and national security analysis Web site, cautions against depicting the south as an obstacle-free battle zone for the U.S. The region tends to be much cloudier than the north in winter, Pike said. And for the moment, there is no place in the southern portion of the country where a U.S. or U.S.-backed force could feel entirely safe from guerrilla attack.
He needs to be opposed even more than most elected officials, since he is a self-appointed NGO guru, constantly being fawned over by the commie-islam press.
He is the ultimate DISARMAMENT DORK
"(/sarcasm)"
It was actually brought out at a House Science Committee hearing in 1998, because Pike the Liar was running around claiming to be "Dr. Pike" Some congressman asked him in, the hearing, in public, if he had a PhD, and where he got it, and Pike was forced to admit he had been LYING the ENTIRE time, and DID NOT have a doctorate! Then the member said, well, do you have a master's, and what is it in? THEN he asked, do you have a bachelors (this was funny, as I think everyone assumed the guy at least had a bachelors) -- NO, Pike admitted, HE DIDN'T!!
Notice how much this bothers the liberals, thought, as they continue to quote him as an expert. You, too, can be an "expert" in science with ONLY A HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION if you have the correct left wing views.
[Excerpt from Washington Post Online]--Jeremy Stone, who retired six months ago after 30 years as FAS president, said he "struggled" to maintain funding support for Pike's work. But Pike was always worth the effort, Stone said.
"He worked around the clock, to the point of exhaustion, and with tremendous creativity, ingenuity and selflessness in sharing his work," Stone said.
Stone, a PhD mathematician from Stanford, acknowledged that his star staff member attended Vanderbilt but never got a degree. "I view him as the Edwin Land of our community - Land never graduated from Harvard. He was a great genius, and he didn't have time for college," Stone said. "John didn't have time for anything that didn't interest him. As opposed to working on lost causes, John works on things that are ripe for media attention - and he's been far more successful at managing the media than any scientist at FAS." [End Excerpt] -- Article
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He's an expert in the MEDIA!!!
I forgot to say, thank you for helping get out the truth!
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