{"id":19777,"date":"2010-07-19T08:34:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T12:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19777"},"modified":"2010-07-19T08:34:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T12:34:23","slug":"washington-post-top-secret-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19777","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: Top Secret America"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> has published an interactive website that seeks to uncover the secrecy of the American defense network pronouncing that it’s “A hidden world, growing beyond control”. The defense network is a little worried about the Washington Post’s story, since obviously, it exposes some companies to espionage and terrorism that were never exposed before.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon warned contractors last week about the article with letters like this one that I found in my inter-web travels;<\/p>\n

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After quickly going through some of the stuff that the Washington Post put up online, I noticed that one of the two main “reporters” on this article is William Arkin<\/a>. You remember Arkin, right? back in early 2007, Arkin wrote a column about how the US troops don’t appreciate regular Americans enough. That they really have cushy jobs and get more pay and “obscene amenities” than they deserve. At the time, I did some research on Arkin’s background. This is what I found about him on Peace.net – where his bio has disappeared;<\/p>\n

His bio claims he was an intel weinie who \u201cengaged in a number of covert intelligence collection projects\u201d which means someone let him debrief an infantry patrol occasionally \u2013 which is probably why he hates real soldiers. Why would an intelligence analyst go to work for Greenpeace as their \u201cmilitary specialist\u201d?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That article has understandably disappeared from the internet, so has the one in which he called our troops mercenaries. He was a pogue back in the 70’s in Berlin for a few years, so how does that make him an expert on defense policy? Well, because after his service, he worked for Greenpeace, Human Rights Watch and his email address links back to the “Institute for Global Communications” – the parent of Peace.net and Labor.net so that makes him an expert on those opposed to our defense policies.<\/p>\n

Later that year, Arkin was disappointed that he wasn’t invited to the Milblog Conference<\/a>. Aside from the fact that no one gets a personal invitation, why would the milblogs invite the idiot pogue who doesn’t appreciate the troops.<\/p>\n

There’s more on the Post toy for hippies at RedState<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bill O’Reilly, tracked down Arkin in Vermont back in 2007, probably the last worthwhile thing that O’Reilly ever did;<\/p>\n

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