When it comes to the appointment of Gen. Michael V. Hayden to head the CIA, it's not so much about who he is, but who he will view as his Daddy.
There is a power struggle between the new intelligence director, John Negroponte, and our Generally-criticized Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
And, although Negroponte is the intelligence czar and his CIA is supposed to manage spy operations, Rumsfeld has staked out his own "human intelligence" operation in the Defense Department. Unlike his usual "slimmed-down" approach to the military, Rumsfeld's intelligence gathering is a growing, hungry bureaucy threatening to eat Negroponte's intelligence lunch.
Although Negroponte by law oversees all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, he is frustrated at his progress in managing the agencies under Rumsfeld's jurisdiction.
So.... the fact that Hayden is a General blurs the lines. In this intelligence tug-of-war Hayden sits in a pivitol position, one that will leave either Negroponte or Rumsfeld holding a slack rope.
You'll hear lots of Congressional posturing about Hayden's experience, wrong man or right man for the job. .... but what it really boils down to is, who gets the final Hayden intelligence salute?
The Czar or the Don.
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==Narus ST-6400 and NarusInsight by Narus Ltd.==
Under Gen. Michael V. Hayden the NSA has forced tecom companies to implement massive domestic spying hardware. Even though Gen. Hayden has said at the National Press Club that "As the director, I was the one responsible to ensure that this program was limited in its scope and disciplined in its application." The NarusInsight is one type of domestic spying hardware. Capable of monitoring 10 billion bits of data per second in real-time. This means the NarusInsight can monitor an OC-192 in realtime. For reference 10 billion bits is 10 million Kbts, divide that by the average DSL user witch is 256 Kbts (10000000/256) you get monitoring of 39062.5 DSL lines in realtime for every piece of hardware. After data capture Narus softeware can replay data. What does this mean well acrodding too Narus website "Capabilities include playback of streaming media (for example, VoIP), rendering of Web pages, examination of e-mails and the ability to analyze the payload/attachments of e-mail or file transfer protocols." Think of it as Tivo for the internet able to replay 39000 US DSL users activity in realtime for every piece of hardware.
References:
Narus Ltd http://narus.com,
NATIONAL PRESS CLUB Transcript: http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/2006/intell-060123-dni01.htm http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564046/posts
Hoover's company factsheet: http://www.hoovers.com/narus/--ID__60701--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml
Report by bewert: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/8/14724/28476
EFF case against AT&T http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/att_complaint_amended.pdf
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