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Re:My Dinner With NSA Director Keith Alexander by j_baker on Thursday August 22, 2013 @06:56PM (#6260633)
I don't buy it. Clearly it's simplistic to try to cast this as being "Alexander == the devil". But that doesn't make Alexander a good person.

I've yet to see any evidence of Alexander being an earnest individual. I have seen evidence that Alexander is good at convincing people he's an earnest individual despite evidence to the contrary. And that scares me tremendously.

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Re:My Dinner With NSA Director Keith Alexander by mikegagnon on Thursday August 22, 2013 @07:11PM (#6260704)
I don't know for a fact that Alexander is a good person. I just assume he is because I assume people are good in general, and, pragmatically, that assumption leads to more fruitful debates.

People lie all the time, to themselves and to everyone else.

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