Keith ‘Cowboy’ Alexander Admits He Lied About the NSA’s Accomplishments

Keith ‘Cowboy’ Alexander is the head of the NSA, and the center of the Senate inquiries into the NSA’s unconstitutional spying.*  In the past, Alexander claimed that the NSA foiled 54 separate plots with their surveillance.  He now admits that was a lie.  The number is closer to 13, and not all of those 13 were even plots… or were even foiled at all.

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America Loses Global Standing Among Internet Regulators and Engineers

Globally, the US is loosing it’s standing as a world leader in technology, due to the NSA weakening the internet by trying to make people feel secure when they are not.  This is not idle rhetoric, like China’s sabre rattling over the debt ceiling.  This is a big change.

A little history to start out:  Nobody can compete with America technologically.  We invented the lightbulb, the power grid, the assembly line, the phone system and the internet.  The only thing we do better than inventing useful technologies is rock ‘n roll.  It only makes sense that the groups that regulate the internet would be based in America, because the inventors of the internet were in America when they built it.  When they formed these regulation committees they gave the US government certain oversight privileges that aren’t given to other countries, because not only were the people involved in the US at the time, much of the invention was funded by the US government.

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NSA’s Utah Data Center Burns

I’m glad to see this blight on the 4th amendment burn.  I wish it got razed to the ground, but unfortunately it seems structurally in tact.  I haven’t seen any reports of injuries or fatalities relating to this yet, which is a relief.  I don’t want to see people hurt, I just want this monstrosity shut down.  This fire set the opening of the data center back by about a year.  Hopefully that will buy us some time to pass some legislation against it.

There is a video from a news story, including footage from a chopper flyover of the Utah Data Center construction site below the cut.

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