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Ex-NSA Director Keith Alexander's Investments In Tech Firms: "No Conflict"
Presto Vivace (882157) writes "No conflicts appear to exist" among Keith Alexander's investments, the NSA said. "New financial disclosure documents released this month by the National Security Agency (NSA) show that Keith Alexander, who served as its director from August 2005 until March 2014, had thousands of dollars of investments during his tenure in a handful of technology firms." Don't worry, the NSA assures us that there was no conflict of interest.
That is the only possible reason why they basically can do as they like, violate nay laws they do not like, lie under oath, etc. all without any consequences whatsoever. The basically form a "state in the state" with its own laws. For a few historical examples where such evil machinations lead, look for example at the events leading to WW2 and the role of the "Wehrmacht".
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Maybe they do.
But the American public just doesn't care and they are more concerned with the distraction issues. People get sucked into propaganda.
In November, nothing much is going to change. We'll still have a shitty Congress because people think all the others suck but their guy and there are the folks who hate the otherside so much, they won't dare for them - you know the whole lesser evil bullshit.
What we should be asking is how ARE the Congresscritters benefiting from this. Keep in mind that most Congressmen are quite wealthy and have many business interests. Meaning, these NSA investments with taxpayer money is quite possibly going into those Congressmen's pockets. The same goes for wars.
The political class is playing the American for the rubes that we are and people do not ask the hard questions.