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by Michael Krieger




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Alexander sits down at the table...

& hands each potential client their dossiers. Then asks for a million a month.

The bankers all start laughing and say; "We KNOW! Snowden told us already!"

Alexander says "can I get $600K a month? Please?"

...and they're like "alright, now eff off!"


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NSA Mastermind Keith Alexander Selling Secrets to Wall Street

I'm not the least surprised, this goes on all the time.

Here's a good read: Is NSA Surveillance Mastermind Keith Alexander Selling US Secrets to Wall Street?

Perhaps you already assume that there's some kind of twisted marriage between Wall Street megabanks and the US global surveillance regime. Why wouldn't there be? But not even a total cynic could have anticipated spymaster Keith Alexander cashing in this hard, this fast.

(Rep. Alan Grayson)- "Frankly, what the general is doing is beginning to resemble an extortion racket," he told me. "This is a man who basically lied for a living, and he continues to do that."

To be clear, what's uniquely outrageous about Alexander, who has apparently lowered his asking price to $600,000, is not that he is a former US official dangling his alleged expertise and the allure of privileged access to government officials before Wall Street. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who served under Barack Obama and is the odds-on favorite to succeed him, does this all the time, usually at a rate of about $250,000 a pop. (Indeed, one might argue that the very fact she has managed to do so while enjoying a stellar national reputation is what signaled to Alexander he might as well dive headlong through the revolving door.) But the former NSA head presumably knows things about sophisticated intelligence-gathering practices that very, very few people on Earth have been privy to—information that could be useful in the private sector, which has a tendency to collude with the military in ways that made former President and World War II General Dwight Eisenhower very sad.

continue: http://www.vice.com/read/nsa-surveillance-mastermind-keith-a...
