James Bamford for Wired: "The Secret War." All about General Keith Alexander, who is "director of the world's largest intelligence service, the National Security Agency; chief of the Central Security Service; and commander of the US Cyber Command" and presides over "his own secret military...the Navy's 10th Fleet, the 24th Air Force, and the Second Army," and the massive cyberwar complex he has built inside the US government.
I'm not even going to excerpt it. Just go read the whole thing. It's a must-read to truly understand the context of the surveillance story, which is only the tip of the iceberg.
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