Washington Post: Top Secret America
The Washington Post has published an interactive website that seeks to uncover the secrecy of the American defense network pronouncing that it’s “A hidden world, growing beyond control”. The defense network is a little worried about the Washington Post’s story, since obviously, it exposes some companies to espionage and terrorism that were never exposed before.
The Pentagon warned contractors last week about the article with letters like this one that I found in my inter-web travels;
After quickly going through some of the stuff that the Washington Post put up online, I noticed that one of the two main “reporters” on this article is William Arkin. You remember Arkin, right? back in early 2007, Arkin wrote a column about how the US troops don’t appreciate regular Americans enough. That they really have cushy jobs and get more pay and “obscene amenities” than they deserve. At the time, I did some research on Arkin’s background. This is what I found about him on Peace.net – where his bio has disappeared;
His bio claims he was an intel weinie who “engaged in a number of covert intelligence collection projects” which means someone let him debrief an infantry patrol occasionally – which is probably why he hates real soldiers. Why would an intelligence analyst go to work for Greenpeace as their “military specialist”?
That article has understandably disappeared from the internet, so has the one in which he called our troops mercenaries. He was a pogue back in the 70’s in Berlin for a few years, so how does that make him an expert on defense policy? Well, because after his service, he worked for Greenpeace, Human Rights Watch and his email address links back to the “Institute for Global Communications” – the parent of Peace.net and Labor.net so that makes him an expert on those opposed to our defense policies.
Later that year, Arkin was disappointed that he wasn’t invited to the Milblog Conference. Aside from the fact that no one gets a personal invitation, why would the milblogs invite the idiot pogue who doesn’t appreciate the troops.
There’s more on the Post toy for hippies at RedState.
Bill O’Reilly, tracked down Arkin in Vermont back in 2007, probably the last worthwhile thing that O’Reilly ever did;
Category: Antiwar crowd, I hate hippies, Usual Suspects
No good can come from this. Talk about helping our enemies finalize their target folders!! Little Willie Fuckstick needs to be placed on the perimeter at one of these companies so he can see up close what he and the commies at the WaPo have created.
This just makes me pissed off and sick the more I think about it. Fucking losers.
Something tells me if Shitstain was given an M-4 and an 80-lb ruck to hump up and down a few 10,000 foot mountains on the Afghan/Paki border, he might have a bit of a change of heart about the pay soldiers get. If his heart doesn’t blow out on one of those climbs, that is. And something tells me his pay these days is “obscene” compared to what your typical servicemember gets.
Typical transparent conservative tactic – attack the messenger to distract people from the message. Why don’t you stick to the information in the report and save us from your personal vendettas.
Just like I tell those IVAW clowns when they make the vacuous charge that I attack the messenger instead of the message; If the messenger is corrupt, it stands to reason that the message is corrupt, too.
Actually, it’s not the first time I’ve seen a dipstick Leftist try to hide behind that “messenger” defense. In fact, I’m quite accustomed to people with a mud-puddle-deep intellect use it.
Given Arkin’s history, who can trust his reporting on national security issues? He clearly has an agenda. Only numbnutted Leftists who want to hear his message to justify their own corrupt goals.
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Well, Joe, since you haven’t figured it out; the messenger wrote the message; moron.
#3 Joe:
Would you be willing to give a little more insight into what messege it is that you think we’re being distracted from?
My concern with what the WP is doing, is that the companies listed on their website will become targets for terorists.
Joe, you are an imbecile. Seriously, dude, your entire thought process is so fucked up, so adolescent in nature, that it beggars belief.
Just finished browing the Post’s site. Much of their info is over-hyped. For example, the computer software companies RedHat (sells contract support for Linux) and SAS (used by the Fortune 500 companies and every university in the nation for statistical analysis) are listed as doing “top-secret” work. Most likely exaggerated BS from the Post. Unless the Post knows something really good, those companies probably sold their commercially available computer software to a government agency that does at least some classified work. By that definition, Dunkin Donuts does “top secret” work, but won’t appear in the Post’s database because there are no government contracts to buy donuts.
The “top secret” labels are hype to attract readers. The Post is, after all, a for-profit company and competes for national attention with the NYTimes and WSJ.
Is it really news that Booz-Allen Hamilton were performing government contract work? Geez. Anyone who read the “now hiring” pages of the BAH website several years ago could have seen the many open positions that explicitly required TS or TS-SCI clearance.
This whole project looks like the somewhat uninformed at the Post congratulating themselves for a big uncovering of a world that wasn’t all that hidden for anyone who wanted to know more.