A lavish Star Trek room he had built as part of his 'Information Dominance Center' is endlessly revealing
Glenn Greenwald
theguardian.com, Sunday 15 September 2013
It has been previously reported that the mentality of NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander is captured by his motto "Collect it All". It's a get-everything approach he pioneered first when aimed at an enemy population in the middle of a war zone in Iraq, one he has now imported onto US soil, aimed at the domestic population and everyone else.
But a perhaps even more disturbing and revealing vignette into the spy chief's mind comes from a new Foreign Policy article describing what the journal calls his "all-out, barely-legal drive to build the ultimate spy machine".
The personality driving all of this - not just Alexander's but much of Washington's - is perhaps best captured by this one passage, highlighted by PBS' News Hour in a post entitled: "NSA director modeled war room after Star Trek's Enterprise". The room was christened as part of the "Information Dominance Center"
"When he was running the Army's Intelligence and Security Command, 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."
But now, on the website of DBI Architects, Inc. of Washington and Reston, Virginia, there are what purports to be photographs of the actual Star-Trek-like headquarters commissioned by Gen. Alexander that so impressed his Congressional overseers. It's a 10,740 square foot labyrinth in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The brochure touts how "the prominently positioned chair provides the commanding officer an uninterrupted field of vision to a 22'-0" wide projection screen"
The glossy display further describes how "this project involved the renovation of standard office space into a highly classified, ultramodern operations center." Its "primary function is to enable 24-hour worldwide
visualization, planning, and execution of coordinated information operations for the US Army and other federal agencies." It gushes: "The futuristic, yet distinctly military, setting is further reinforced by the Commander's console, which gives the illusion that one has boarded a star ship"
(courtesy of public funds)
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May I interrupt this thread and ask for advise from someone. Can anyone tell me what to look for as far as the behavioral characteristics of a targeted person, so that I can determine if someone is under an attack, WHILE they are being attacked. What happens to the body? Any outward signs? Thanks for your advise/help. ~Debra
P.S. @Cedric: I also have more specific comments relating to this original post. I'm still doing some research for you and will report back within 24-hours. This is an excellent idea by the way-- making contact with Greenwald. He is in my Facebook community and I 'might' be able to cut through his administration filters and help facilitate contact with him if your efforts prove futile. And before I close, might I suggest that inclusive of your communique to Greenwald, might you direct him to the new book release TWELVE YEARS IN THE GRAVE, by PeacePink's owner, Solielmavis? ~Debra (djgTheMediaLady)
Ladies and Gentlemen: I have to jump in here now and add my little two cents in the form of an article that is in direct relationship to parodies of 'Star Trek' and the purpose of DEWs, TIs and the like. People don't believe, yet alone can understand the concept of what is happening to targets. I'm sharing this article here because it seems to be getting some well deserved attention. Glen Greenwald is one such journalist who is OPEN MINDED to 'hear' the true message from PeacePink members. Another such journalist is Chris Hedges, who is the author if the article linked below. Thus, it is my hope to introduce yet another kindred who would also like to know more about this. Without further delay, please read today's news article by Chris Hedges...
Excerpt here: The anthropologist Joseph Tainter in his book “The Collapse of Complex Societies” looked at the collapse of civilizations from the Roman to the Mayan. He concluded that they disintegrated because they finally could not sustain the bureaucratic complexities they had created. Layers of bureaucracy demand more and more exploitation, not only of the environment but the laboring classes. They become calcified by systems that are unable to respond to the changing reality around them. [...] Those on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms have replicated this behavior. They insist that continued reliance on fossil fuel and speculations will sustain the empire. State resources, as Tainter notes, are at the end increasingly squandered on extravagant and senseless projects and imperial adventures. And then it all collapses.
Our collapse will take the whole planet with it. http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/the_folly_of_empire_20131014
I kindly suggest that we all copy this text and email it to glenn.greenwald@guardiannews.com
and just write "Done" when sent.
Dear Mister Greenwald,
There will be many of us sending you the following email, all of which will start exactly like this one but containing different individual details at the end of it. You may have heard of us in the past in different news articles such as the Washington Post or a mention in the History Channel. The mainstream news also mentioned people doing unexplainable acts in unexplainable situations, like Aaron Alexis or Myriam Carey. These people were labelled as crazy. Russell Tice, the first NSA whistleblower to mention very specific NSA Special Access Programs was also labelled as crazy by the NSA before he could speak about them publicly or to the Congress, and instead, he spoke about eavesdropping and described some of the dark work done at the NSA via alternative medias. We have had none of those opportunities and we do not expect them to arise any sooner. However, we believe that the voice of many sounding like one has a chance to be listened to.
You are a journalist and a human right advocator Mr Greenwald.
We are Targeted Individuals by the NSA.
This is the reason why we chose to write to you while you are publishing these NSA leaks.
We believe that there is a chance that you find some extremely complex datas in these leaks, and if interpreted correctly, will show solid evidence of these Special Access Programs and their capabilities of listening to, recording and digitizing the unthinkable via satellites: thoughts and visual memories.
We do not believe that you will find evidences of the suffering that many of us are enduring since years already which is why we shall leave this topic aside for now. We simply do not expect you to believe us. None does.
All we ask you to, is to listen to us and take us in your consideration and mostly, look for these datas you may have already seen and was perhaps unable to decipher or stood puzzled about what they could mean facing a discovery as impossible as this.
Being able to prove with tangible evidences and publish that an ultra classified technology is able to achieve such prodigy and disrespect towards humanity to such depths will be our first step towards freedom.
Freedom has been taken away from us the very second these SAP's were legally used upon civilians in all impunity and we want our freedom back. This freedom might lie in these very datas Edward Snowden chose to give to you.
Best Regards Mr Greenwald and mostly, our deepest gratitude for your precious times.
Targeted Individual since: (time)
I live in: (city, coutry)
My name is: (first name, last name)
Thank you Chanath. And yes, Best Regards does sound more appropriate. ;)
That link is most interesting and including it is a great idea, however, it is a loooong link and i am not sure that he will read it until the end. A short version would be better, perhaps a summary of it?
The only thing that makes me tick is that he is a journalist and likes solid sources, depthought.newswine.com is interesting as hell but hard to use as a reference, especially to a journalist.
Thoughts?
My pleasure, Chanath.
Here is the first draft i just wrote, pray tell what you think and what needs to be added or changed, thank you ;)
Dear Mister Greenwald,
There will be many of us sending you the following email, all of which will start exactly like this one but containing different individual details at the end of it. You may have heard of us in the past in different news articles such as the Washington Post or a mention in the History Channel. The mainstream news also mentioned people doing unexplainable acts in unexplainable situations, like Aaron Alexis or Myriam Carey. These people were labelled as crazy. Russell Tice, the first NSA whistleblower to mention very specific NSA Special Access Programs was also labelled as crazy by the NSA before he could speak about them publicly or to the Congress, and instead, he spoke about eavesdropping and described some of the dark work done at the NSA via alternative medias. We have had none of those opportunities and we do not expect them to arise any sooner. However, we believe that the voice of many sounding like one has a chance to be listened to.
You are a journalist and a human right advocator Mr Greenwald.
We are Targeted Individuals by the NSA.
This is the reason why we chose to write to you while you are publishing these NSA leaks.
We believe that there is a chance that you find some extremely complex datas in these leaks, and if interpreted correctly, will show solid evidence of these Special Access Programs and their capabilities of listening to, recording and digitizing the unthinkable via satellites: thoughts and visual memories.
We do not believe that you will find evidences of the suffering that many of us are enduring since years already which is why we shall leave this topic aside for now. We simply do not expect you to believe us. None does.
All we ask you to, is to listen to us and take us in your consideration and mostly, look for these datas you may have already seen and was perhaps unable to decipher or stood puzzled about what they could mean facing a discovery as impossible as this.
Being able to prove with tangible evidences and publish that an ultra classified technology is able to achieve such prodigy and disrespect towards humanity to such depths will be our first step towards freedom.
Freedom has been taken away from us the very second these SAP's were legally used upon civilians in all impunity and we want our freedom back. This freedom might lie in these very datas Edward Snowden chose to give to you.
Good luck Mr Greenwald and mostly, our deepest gratitude for your precious times.
(i need something here as a conclusion but not sure what and how)
Targeted Individual since: (time)
I live in: (city, coutry)
My name is: (first name, last name)
Update: reposting due to correction ;)
Oh, sorry.
Like Glenn Greenwald, i would say that the datas look very complicated and identifying parameters such as satellites transmission and sources like people's heads, i assume, will take some time.
I know that the data will not include the officer's voices (perp) since the recording output does not make the difference between our internal voices and theirs.
Also, like most eavesdropping, certain part can be selected, others can be cut out in order to arrange whatever the officer (perp) wants it to look like to the upper or uppest echelon, like making someone look like a terrorist in order to justify certain actions, for example. That is how the data would be like.
By accessing an ultra classified database i presume, just like Snowden did.
Thanks for the correct (bald) wording (Chanath ;) and nope, i do not believe either that there is anything about electronic harrassement in the files Snowden leaked, these kind of datas are in my knowledge not recorded; it would be senseless to keep proofs for one, and two, it would mean that the upper if not uppest echelon of the NSA is fully aware of what is really happening. I think they are mostly internaly missinformed via biased status reports..
The satellite eavesdropping in revenge is most definitely being stored and these are the kind of datas that i pray Snowden leaked. Glenn Greenwald said that he needs time to understand these vast amount of datas and that he will publish all leaks, he also said that there are many more to come and that their publishing must be timed properly ( not too slow, nor too fast) so i still have my hopes. Our goal would be to find a way to connect with these leaks with the appropriate timing and somehow and i like to believe that we could get lucky, especially if we all stick together.
@Annie: Here is the full article ( and agreed, we are on the same exact wavelength on how this should look like): http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/15/nsa-mind-keith...
I will start working on the form now, starting with the introduction and will post it here as soon as i am finished. Once it is done, your help with inputs, corrections, critics etc. would be very appreciated.
Its a great idea. I dont know much about this Mr Greenwald, but if he´s human rights oriented like u say Cedric, it for sure could be worth a try. However I strongly also agree with the must of having same related stories sent, stricly based on the science and technology parts (that we in fact could prove are taking place-refering to loads of science articles, but then told to be done on rats..) and they may not be evolved to be too personal and telling the "whole horrific story" (we better keep in mind,those stories of us, are virtually made up to fit and part of the "game" to make us disoriented and even if I like almost everybody else could tell an unimagninable story (at least for a non aware person) there´s no space for that if we want to be taken serious at this point. That time will come later perhaps-if needed, but for now, we need to stick to the formal facts, we are unconscented victims of science experimentations for the sci-fi future to come, and all this could be related to what this Mr Greewald is writing about. P.S do u have a source or a link to the article?D.S
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