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NSA Chief’s former war room was modeled after the Starship Enterprise

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NSA director Keith Alexander might be the most famous spy in America right now. Everyone wants to know who’s really behind the agency’s widespread snooping. And now, a lengthy profile of Alexander in Foreign Policy invites even more intrigue. It also reveals some of the general’s weird ways.

The core questions raised about Alexander the “cowboy” in the FP story stem from revelations in Edward Snowden’s leak of confidential NSA documents earlier this summer. “Cowboy” doesn’t quite cut it, though. Alexander sounds a bit more eccentric than that.
via Gizmodo

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