Sent to.my congressman today: Dear Congressman Kilmer, I want to start this letter by thanking you for the thoughtful, in depth, and lengthy replies you have sent me over the past few years. I take great honor in receiving them, and post them on Facebook, where they are met with broad support amongst my friends of all political stripes and philosophies as well as throughout the world. As you may recall, and to set up this letter, I think it is important to address my prejudices. I am a pro-military, libertarian, Republican. My family has had several members who have served or are serving in the military. I myself worked both as a department of the Army civilian employee and contract employee. I live in a Navy town where friends and more now their children serve in the Armed Forces of this country. With this background, I found the Snowden revelations very disturbing. As you may recall, you directed me to your intelligence specialist on loan from NSA (name deliberately redacted). She and I had several in depth discussions during the summer of 2013 as claim and counter claim rolled out during the Snowden scandal. The net of which was that at no point did the government tell the truth during the scandal and contra-positively, at no point did Snowden lie. Please bare this in mind as we get to the end of the letter. As you may know, Sony suffered a hack that was tied to the picture the interview, which it turned out according to my friends, is a mediocre, vulgar comedy, in the Hollywood tradition of the Hangover. North Korea objected early on about it showing the assassination of its leader. Which it certainly should be expected to do. A few months later, Sony suffered a hack in which some of its more sensitive information was leaked. The group involved called itself the GOP or guardians of piece. In their most recent statements they make a great point of repeatingly using the GOP moniker. Right after the hack, Sony claimed that the hack came from North Korea. Their evidence was insubstantial at best. As if North Korea would make such a point about domestic internal American politics ( this joke has the same inside, ha ha, arent we so clever smug humor to it as calling tea party members tea baggers). Subsequently, however, both the FBI and the president have weighed in against North Korea, despite North Korea denial of involvement in the attack, and its insistence on being cooperative and part of any investigation of this hack. North Korea objections were not taken seriously, nor addressed. Given its track record on agreements, I, myself have trouble trusting them. After the FBI weighed in we started to see the security industrial complex spin up their talking heads, and paid for Congressmen (see Mike Rogers piece in the WSJ this morning) to advocate for even more funding for cyber warfare. We then initiated 2 attacks against North Koreas Internet capabilities which resulted in several hours of denial of service to that country. Last night, it was revealed that Sony was, at least initially, internally hacked by a former disgruntled IT employee who was not under the employ of North Korea. So here we are this morning awaking to the fact that we went to war and attacked another nation based on politically motivated and false intelligence, now twice in the past 13 years and that hostile foreign governments have proven more honest and credible than our own people and our own intelligence services. Increasingly, it appears, that we have an intelligence apparatus that is run by hedge fund profiteers more interested in playing the K street game of hyping the security threat in order get more money to their bottom line, than maintaining the credibility of our nation, and its intelligence services. Worse is that these intelligence agencies, as we saw with military contracting in the civil war (I refer to Ken Burns description of The Age of Shoddy) to the shenanigans Howard Hughes used to get his military contracts (hookers and parties) to the current practice of hiring former chiefs as lobbying experts and private security firm CEOs upon their retirement or dismissal are now thoroughly corrupt, dishonest, and compromised. It should be needless to say, that having an intelligence apparatus that is both capable and credible is essential to our nation, now for the third time (Iraq war lead up, Snowden, Sony) in 13 years, and every time it has been put in the limelight, it has shown itself to be corrupt, dishonest, and greedy. It is the New Age of Shoddy. We must have hearings and a thorough investigation of our intelligence apparati. The entire leadership must be dismissed and disgraced. All lies to Congress, especially Klappers not knowingly lie, must be prosecuted to the fullest with the same vigor that we intended to go after Snowden. A federal grand jury investigation which DOJ acts as co-counsel for the defense (like the Garner and Brown police killing Grand Juries) will further damage our country. What is needed is someone to run this review, if not our entire intelligence apparatus, who has the proven credibility to get to the truth, the proven technical skills, a proven tract record of honesty in this department, and a proven international reputation of probity.. What is sad, is the ONLY person with these unique set of assets is currently living in Moscow. I am asking you that you initiate a conversation with your fellow Congressmen Massie as well as possibly Amash, Senators Wyden, Lee, and Paul and see what you can do to start correcting this problem. I will also suggest, you need your friend from NSA secunded back to your staff if you intend to take this issue seriously. I found her credible and reliable, characteristics which undoubtedly will damage her career progression in both NSA and possibly in the DNI. If we fail to correct and address this shoddiness in our intelligence operations, they will be totally discredited. Their analysis will prove to be worthless to the point of immediate reference for falsity. As a congressman whose primary responsibility is to represent one of the strongest military districts in the country, it is imperative that you work to make sure our intelligence apparati are honest, capable, and the model of probity. Our family, friends, and neighbors very lives depend on this. Unit cohesion relies on everyones belief in the credibility of this intelligence. Our miltary can not go to war repeatedly on the basis of politically motivated intelligence for neither its members nor the public will have faith in its actions. As you read this letter, I hope you will give my suggestions some serious consideration. I understand it poses political risk to break ranks against caucus leadership, but preserving military standing and resources is your main, if not only, job! Allowing it to be degraded by both the production and use of corrupt intelligence without you taking a strong stand is derelict. Taking a strong stand will earn you standing and credibility. Again, thank you for your time and consideration. As always, your friend, Bill
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:16:34 +0000
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