Because who can cipher anything to zeros better than these guys, really?

Just some guy who enjoys your site.

You might enjoy my comment on Mahnken’s piece – http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128688013#commentBlock

Many thanks!

Priest correctly identifies the redundancy and waste that plagues efforts to secure the U.S. However, the central problem, one that haunt us for decades to come, is one that Priest didn’t address, but to which Greenwald and Shorrock seem acutely attuned.

An efficient security state is a far more dangerous place than an inefficient one. This is especially true when security functions are partially privatized. We have all the makings of a civil liberties disaster on our hands. Mr. Shorrock has documented it meticulously on his own for years, and now gives us the telling photo essay essay below.

An eventual efficient consolidation of intelligence community power into the ODNI, along with a fully realized USCYBERCOM will test a century of U.S. First and Fourth Amendment guarantees. USCYBERCOM is especially a problem as it will, by definition, be a military monitor of domestic cyberspace, and carries an implicit authority to conduct operations in the U.S..

Since January 2010, I have been writing on internet, law, and communication at platanalytics.com. In March, I began a series of protest and satire pieces directed at the intelligence industry, inspired by Greenwald and Shorrock. My logs reflect numerous and ongoing visits by intelligence agency users and bots, which culminated shortly after July 4th in what appeared to be an effort by the U.S. military to use SEO to suppress a satire image of the USCYBERCOM seal I had released and promoted on the 4th. The image had been emailed to private contractors Booz Allen and Northrup.

There is no time for lobbying, laws, or leverage now. This is what we have time to do: figure out how to actively subvert efforts to impose upon us a National Security State. Slow it down. Bother it. Resist it.