Friday, May 9, 2014

Glenn Greenwald: Keith Alexander Unplugged: on Bush/Obama, 1.7 million stolen documents and other matters

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/05/08/keith-alexander-unplugged-bushobama-matters/

The just-retired long-time NSA chief, Gen. Keith Alexander, recently traveled to Australia to give a remarkably long and wide-ranging interview with an extremely sycophantic “interviewer” with The Australian Financial Review. The resulting 17,000-word transcript andaccompanying article form a model of uncritical stenography journalism, but Alexander clearly chose to do this because he is angry, resentful, and feeling unfairly treated, and the result is a pile of quotes that are worth examining, only a few of which are noted below:

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