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There's a link in here to Endgame Systems here that's dead [0]. Read a bit, then checked the wiki on them : "The Endgame Board of Directors is led by Christoph
by cinquemb 13y ago
There's a link in here to Endgame Systems here that's dead [0].
Read a bit, then checked the wiki on them :
"The Endgame Board of Directors is led by Christopher Darby, President and CEO of In-Q-Tel, an independent strategic investment firm supporting the missions of the intelligence community. Endgame announced in March 2013 that Kenneth Minihan, former Director of the National Security Agency and Managing Director at Paladin, had also joined its Board of Directors."[1]
And from the piece:
"While the media and much of the world have been understandably outraged by the revelation of the NSA’s spying programs, Barrett Brown’s work was pointing to a much deeper problem. It isn’t the sort of problem that can be fixed by trying to tweak a few laws or by removing a few prosecutors. The problem is not with bad laws or bad prosecutors. What the case of Barrett Brown has exposed is that we confronting a different problem altogether. It is a systemic problem. It is the failure of the rule of law."
And back to Obama's check list of questions during his speech weeks ago about the conditions that "we’re going to have some problems here" [2]:
Do we trust the Executive Branch?
Do we trust Congress?
Do we trust what is called "due process and rule of law"?
[0]https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Endgame_Systems https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame_systems
[2]http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/06/07/transcript-what-obama-said-on-nsa-controversy/ http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/06/07/transcript-what-oba...
- whyleyc 13y agoIn-Q-Tel is the CIA's VC arm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- flyinRyan 13y agoIt's pretty clear at this point that any appearance of "rule of law" in the US is just an illusion. One instance of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, pissing off the wrong person and that illusion will be blown away for you and possibly your family.