Weirder than Goldfinger
by digby
Heh:
“@MattZeitlin: Who was the last person as genuinely weird as Assange to have such a big impact on global politics?”Goldfinger
— Richard Yeselson (@yeselson) October 20, 2013
Oh no, there is one very powerful weirdo who makes Assange look like John Tesh by comparison:
… [Keith]Alexander brought many of his future allies down to Fort Belvoir for a tour of his base of operations, a facility known as the Information Dominance Center. It had been designed by a Hollywood set designer to mimic the bridge of the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, complete with chrome panels, computer stations, a huge TV monitor on the forward wall, and doors that made a “whoosh” sound when they slid open and closed. Lawmakers and other important officials took turns sitting in a leather “captain’s chair” in the center of the room and watched as Alexander, a lover of science-fiction movies, showed off his data tools on the big screen.
“Everybody wanted to sit in the chair at least once to pretend he was Jean-Luc Picard,” says a retired officer in charge of VIP visits.
He’s resigning, by the way. And as Marcy Wheeler points out at that link, it preents an opportunity for President Obama to chart a new NSA course. If he wants to.
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