DNI Clapper should have been fired the week after we found out he lied to Congress and Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of NSA, is worse than Clapper, according to this article from Foreign Policy:
The Cowboy of the NSAWhen I read about the NSA's spying, I become a lot more accepting of the libertarian's desire for a much smaller government.
Inside Gen. Keith Alexander's all-out, barely-legal drive to build the ultimate spy machine.
BY SHANE HARRIS | SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
FOREIGN POLICY
When he ran INSCOM and was horning in on the NSA's turf, Alexander was fond of building charts that showed how a suspected terrorist was connected to a much broader network of people via his communications or the contacts in his phone or email account.
"He had all these diagrams showing how this guy was connected to that guy and to that guy," says a former NSA official who heard Alexander give briefings on the floor of the Information Dominance Center. "Some of my colleagues and I were skeptical. Later, we had a chance to review the information. It turns out that all [that] those guys were connected to were pizza shops."
A retired military officer who worked with Alexander also describes a "massive network chart" that was purportedly about al Qaeda and its connections in Afghanistan. Upon closer examination, the retired officer says, "We found there was no data behind the links. No verifiable sources. We later found out that a quarter of the guys named on the chart had already been killed in Afghanistan."
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