Make it so! While heading up the Army's Intelligence and Security Command, Keith Alexander gave orders from a room designed to look like the bridge of Star Trek's Enterprise. Daily Mail
Inside The Mind Of NSA Chief Gen Keith Alexander -- Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian
A lavish Star Trek room he had built as part of his 'Information Dominance Center' is endlessly revealing.
It has been previously reported that the mentality of NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander is captured by his motto "Collect it All". It's a get-everything approach he pioneered first when aimed at an enemy population in the middle of a war zone in Iraq, one he has now imported onto US soil, aimed at the domestic population and everyone else.
But a perhaps even more disturbing and revealing vignette into the spy chief's mind comes from a new Foreign Policy article describing what the journal calls his "all-out, barely-legal drive to build the ultimate spy machine". The article describes how even his NSA peers see him as a "cowboy" willing to play fast and loose with legal limits in order to construct a system of ubiquitous surveillance. But the personality driving all of this - not just Alexander's but much of Washington's - is perhaps best captured by this one passage, highlighted by PBS' News Hour in a post entitled: "NSA director modeled war room after Star Trek's Enterprise". The room was christened as part of the "Information Dominance Center":
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More News On NSA Chief Gen Keith Alexander And Star Trek
NSA director modeled top secret war room to look like the bridge of Star Trek's Enterprise -- Daily Mail
NSA director inherited Star Trek digs -- Washington Post
How Keith Alexander Spent Taxpayer Money To Make His 'Information Dominance Center' Look Like Starship Enterprise Bridge -- Tech Dirt
Galaxy disturbed by NSA director's 'Star Trek' office -- CNet
The NSA showed off its 'information dominance' from the bridge of the Starship 'Enterprise' -- The Verge
NSA Star Trek Command Room Modeled After Enterprise, Picard Is Not Amused -- The Inquisitr
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