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Well, then let's go back to DNC Leaks: NSA Whistleblower: US Intelligence Worker Likely Behind DNC Leaks, Not Russia http://theantimedia.org/nsa-whistleblower

by binarray2000 10y ago

Well, then let's go back to DNC Leaks: NSA Whistleblower: US Intelligence Worker Likely Behind DNC Leaks, Not Russia http://theantimedia.org/nsa-whistleblower-dnc-russia/ http://theantimedia.org/nsa-whistleblower-dnc-russia/ I have William Binney and you have Vice (owned by Disney) and Esquire (by Hearst). Someone like Binney beats journalists working for corporatocracy. Every day. :-)

maxerickson 10y ago
The author of the Esquire piece isn't a journalist working for Esquire.
- binarray2000 10y ago
  Oh man, you just keep on giving. Thank you! Your input keeps my juices flowing. :-) Thomas Rid has worked for "Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, a Berlin think tank". https://ridt.co/about/ https://ridt.co/about/ And do you know who SWP has worked for? U.S. State Department: > The Cablegate leak produced evidence that leading representatives of the SWP (Volker Perthes, its head, and Walter Posch, an expert on Iran) had advised the U.S. State Department to proceed against Iran with a "policy of covert sabotage (unexplained explosions, accidents, computer hacking etc)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Institute_for_International_and_Security_Affairs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Institute_for_Internati... Thank you again for helping me expose yet another branch of the corporatocracy tree. (BTW, I have researched this in five minutes, max.)
  - maxerickson 10y ago
    (BTW, I have researched this in five minutes, max.) What's your point? You can take previous work in the field both ways, it "connects" someone, but it also means they have some chance of knowing what they are talking about. Above, you use Binney's past at the NSA as something that adds credence to his words...
    - binarray2000 10y ago
      There is a HUGE difference between the two. > Binney was a Russia specialist and worked in the operations side of intelligence, starting as an analyst and ending as a Technical Director prior to becoming a geopolitical world Technical Director. In the 1990s, he co-founded a unit on automating signals intelligence with NSA research chief Dr. John Taggart. Binney's NSA career culminated as Technical Leader for intelligence in 2001. Having expertise in intelligence analysis, traffic analysis, systems analysis, knowledge management, and mathematics (including set theory, number theory, and probability), Binney has been described as one of the best analysts in the NSA's history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(U.S._intelligence_official) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(U.S._intellige... William Binney is a heavyweight (NSA Technical Director), an insider, Russia expert (especially regarding SIGINT). I don't see that Thomas Rid has done anything but teaching and writing while working for various USG affiliated think thanks. While that might be admirable in itself, what credibility does he have regarding the expertise or the inner workings of US or Russian intelligence? I don't see much, even when not compared to Binney. Another difference: By working for USG affiliated think thanks (RAND Corporation, SWP), Rid is just another exceptionally well paid [1] alibi provider for the imperial politics the US oligarchy leads. And that makes him very biased, which in turn makes his writing very biased. So biased in fact, that it insults my intelligence. How are the Esquire editors so stupid not to think that I will take Rid's name, Google it and find out (in less than five minutes!) that he's a shill? [1] Normal professors cannot afford to live "in the Barbican in the City of London". And he even has chuzpe to brag about it!

maxerickson 10y ago

The author of the Esquire piece isn't a journalist working for Esquire.

binarray2000 10y ago
Oh man, you just keep on giving. Thank you! Your input keeps my juices flowing. :-) Thomas Rid has worked for "Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, a Berlin think tank". https://ridt.co/about/ https://ridt.co/about/ And do you know who SWP has worked for? U.S. State Department: > The Cablegate leak produced evidence that leading representatives of the SWP (Volker Perthes, its head, and Walter Posch, an expert on Iran) had advised the U.S. State Department to proceed against Iran with a "policy of covert sabotage (unexplained explosions, accidents, computer hacking etc)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Institute_for_International_and_Security_Affairs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Institute_for_Internati... Thank you again for helping me expose yet another branch of the corporatocracy tree. (BTW, I have researched this in five minutes, max.)
- maxerickson 10y ago
  (BTW, I have researched this in five minutes, max.) What's your point? You can take previous work in the field both ways, it "connects" someone, but it also means they have some chance of knowing what they are talking about. Above, you use Binney's past at the NSA as something that adds credence to his words...
  - binarray2000 10y ago
    There is a HUGE difference between the two. > Binney was a Russia specialist and worked in the operations side of intelligence, starting as an analyst and ending as a Technical Director prior to becoming a geopolitical world Technical Director. In the 1990s, he co-founded a unit on automating signals intelligence with NSA research chief Dr. John Taggart. Binney's NSA career culminated as Technical Leader for intelligence in 2001. Having expertise in intelligence analysis, traffic analysis, systems analysis, knowledge management, and mathematics (including set theory, number theory, and probability), Binney has been described as one of the best analysts in the NSA's history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(U.S._intelligence_official) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(U.S._intellige... William Binney is a heavyweight (NSA Technical Director), an insider, Russia expert (especially regarding SIGINT). I don't see that Thomas Rid has done anything but teaching and writing while working for various USG affiliated think thanks. While that might be admirable in itself, what credibility does he have regarding the expertise or the inner workings of US or Russian intelligence? I don't see much, even when not compared to Binney. Another difference: By working for USG affiliated think thanks (RAND Corporation, SWP), Rid is just another exceptionally well paid [1] alibi provider for the imperial politics the US oligarchy leads. And that makes him very biased, which in turn makes his writing very biased. So biased in fact, that it insults my intelligence. How are the Esquire editors so stupid not to think that I will take Rid's name, Google it and find out (in less than five minutes!) that he's a shill? [1] Normal professors cannot afford to live "in the Barbican in the City of London". And he even has chuzpe to brag about it!