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NSA Director Keith Alexander Is Reportedly Stepping Down
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Keith Alexander will step down by April or May of next year. What's more, the agency's deputy director Chris Inglis also plans to retire by the end of next year, anonymous US officials told Reuters today. Though the news comes in the midst of a global public backlash over the NSA's widespread surveillance programs, it's worth pointing out that Alexander had revealed his plans to retire before Edward Snowden leaked details of PRISM in June. Officials didn't give a reason for his departure."
He's got enough peep show pron to last him 5 lifetimes now.
Throw them both in prison for ten years for breaking the law.
So he can devote all his energies to spying on his family and friends.
Why is Snark Required?
They should give him a t-shirt that says "I raped my country's Constitution and all I got was full my federal pension, lifetime healthcare benefits, full pardon for all my crimes, and this lousy t-shirt."
The cow says "Moo." The dog says "Woof." The Timothy says "Thanks, valued customer. We appreciate your input."
Although the general public has always known about the CIA, they used to be totally unaware of existence of the NSA. So, although it's not remarkable that the NSA's head is retiring, it is remarkable that the public knows - or cares - about it. The Puzzle Palace just ain't what it used to be.
President Obama: "Well Keith, I'm here to.."
Keith Alexander: "Ask me to resign, yeah I knew."
President Obama: Whaat..how you did you know?
Keith Alexander: "Several of your aides mentioned it within hearing distance of their cellphone mikes yesterday."
President Obama: "Well okay, what are you planning on doing now?"
Keith Alexander: "Probably spend a few days whacking it to these pictures I captured from your daughter's cellphone camera. Then I'm going to become the most powerful lobbyist in Washington with all this blackmail material."
The cow says "Moo." The dog says "Woof." The Timothy says "Thanks, valued customer. We appreciate your input."
If he saw it coming then Snowden would have had an unfortunate accident.
Hey man, he's a Star Trek fan. He's got better taste than that.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Ha, even on the HIGHLY UNLIKELY chance any of these scumbags would ever be charged with anything, they would get a full Presidential pardon before the ink even dried on their arrest warrants.
The cow says "Moo." The dog says "Woof." The Timothy says "Thanks, valued customer. We appreciate your input."
Not if he sees himself as Garak from DS9.
The cow says "Moo." The dog says "Woof." The Timothy says "Thanks, valued customer. We appreciate your input."
Federal Contractor. Making at lest 10X his federal salary.
After an extensive audit, it was uncovered that Keith Alexander had system administrator right.
Will there be any follow up to that?
NSA Director Keith Alexander Is Reportedly Stepping Down
yes ... reportedly. Maybe he'll start doing it for real now he's finished being a front-man.
No doubt he's stepping down to "spend more time with his family".
Probably because his wife's e-mail and cell phone records indicate she's having an affair.
But I sent her those emails in ROT13!
Anger? We are talking about budgets worth tens to hundreds of billions of dollars. You are going to have a hard time convincing me that anger is a bigger movitator than greed. It barely takes a sneeze to leverage $10 million out of a $10 billion cash flow.
... to get nothing more than a cushy retirement after having committed countless crimes against millions of people.
Given that he is not stepping down into a Gen Pop PMITA prison (whilst we are still in his) means he wins.
may you rot in hell.
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
Putin was a hood, too (though not the head of the KGB).
Just because the universe could be a simulation doesn't mean that we're the point of the simulation.
Just as the State will destroy DNA evidence that can exonerate prisoners already put to death - to prevent "undermining of the death penalty system", drones rain down down terror on largely innocent populations and bystanders - in the name of the war on terror, now the NSA is seeking to persecute Snowden for espionage, theft and conversion of Government property (data) - data which revealed that the NSA is doing exactly those things on as large a scale as their technology allows. Justice, liberty, privacy, peace and security are but fuel for the State's burning ambition for supremacy.
Modded Funny? Where is the +1. Scary mod?
If programs would be read like poetry, most programmers would be Vogons.
I just sent in my application by emailing it to one of my other accounts.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
"The spook you are trying to reach is no longer in service. Please hold while, and another bureaucrat will soon pretend not to be monitoring the line."
Form a consulting company and overcharge the government to provide more bad advice at the highest price.
No good deed goes unpunished.
I can't find a reliable source for this now, but I seem to remember someone saying recently (on another, less significant matter): "I don't want to know who's getting fired, I want to know who's going to jail."
Of course, we're not even talking about someone getting fired--we're talking about someone retiring....
-rozzin.
No he is more like the Ferengi, he has all this technology but doesn't quite know how to use it or what to do with it. but it is shiny.
Bzzzt wrong. A pardon is given to a guilty person. Even to pardon them would be to admit their guilt.
What would happen is the attorney general would substitute the government itself as the defendant for them, since they worked for the government, and thus would shield them from real prosecution.
Then they would declare that none of the evidence can be shown for national security reasons, and once the dust settled on that, the case would be dismissed.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
Am I the only one who finds this a little amusing?
"anonymous US officials told Reuters today"
Nice to hear US official can maintain anonymity.
The NSA has demonstrated government out of control. The whole agency has got to go. The US, my country, has not only created terrorism where it is the primary target (If the "they hate our freedom" is the cause, then why aren't other free countries targeted as well?) but has managed to lose its trust and influence all over the world due to the NSA's behaviors. Worse, it is also affecting American business as they have been shown to be extremely complicit and so also cannot easily be trusted. I'd like to say we never saw it coming, but we did. I have seen other people saying this would happen. I have said it myself. No one believed it would happen to the great and powerful USA... but it's happening
Nixon was pardoned for any crimes he "might" have committed, so I don't think it requires admission of guilt. (Though there might be a perception of guilt and political fallout from that.)
Even if it did, Obama could just pardon him on his (Obama's) last day of office. If they delay the trial with pre-trial motions for a couple of years, the pardon would come through before anyone does any time.
(Of course, given that there isn't any real suggestion of an actual trial, this is all academic speculation.)
> Nixon was pardoned for any crimes he "might" have committed, so I don't think it requires
> admission of guilt. (Though there might be a perception of guilt and political fallout from that.)
so did you catch the more recent news? Nixon was KNOWN to have committed treason before he was elected. LBJ's spies had a senior person in his campaign, on a recorded phone call to South Viet Nam, urging the South Vietnamese to pull out of peace talks, promising a better deal under a Nixon administration.
Clear collusion with a foriegn party to affect US elections, not just in a trivial way, but but pulling out of peace talks against US foriegn policy interests. This information was not made public until sometime in the past year or two.
> Even if it did, Obama could just pardon him on his (Obama's) last day of office. If they delay the
> trial with pre-trial motions for a couple of years, the pardon would come through before anyone does
> any time.
However, why would they allow that to even happen? http://www.atra.org/legislation/federal/federal-employees-liability-reform-and-tort-compensation-aAct
Or this article on how it is being used to shield the members of the Bush Cabal: http://rt.com/usa/bush-amnesty-iraq-war-847/
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
...Is so that he can work on the review board that is set to investigate the NSA. At least, that's what I imagine will happen.