I'm reading this book right now and it is very hard to get through. It is very long, and has quite a bit of information I don't find relevant to the topic. Bamford is long-winded, probably to hide the fact that the NSA has a relatively short history. Maybe he should write an appendage after Bush leaves office. Then we may just find out what they were going on with the Iraq idea.
Did you know that (according to this book) Eisenhower's Joint Chiefs devised several plans to gain support for going to war with Cuba? Let me quote:
One idea seriously considered involved the launch of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth. On February 20, 1962, Glenn was to lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on his historic journey. The flight was to carry the banner of America's virtues of truth, freedom, and democracy into orbit high over the planet. But Lemnitzer and his Chiefs had a different idea. They proposed to Lansdale that, should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, 'the objective is to provide irrevocable proof that . . . the fault lies with the Communists et al Cuba [sic].' This would be accomplished, Lemnitzer continued, 'by manufacturing various pieces of evidence which would prove electronic interference on the part of the Cubans' Thus, as NASA prepared to send the first American into space, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were preparing to use John Glenn's possible death as a pretext to launch a war. (p. 84)
Isn't that crazy?
It actually sounds like something that may be heard in ten or twenty years about Iraq.
Maybe I'll get to the part about them listening to us because Gee-Dub wants to hear all my dirty stories, how I work from home occasionally and whether I make it on my own.
You're right. None of those things have anything to do with him or his business. Terrorists will be just that until they change their minds about their career choices.
I have to go watch Band of Brothers, parts 8 and 9 now. Goodnight.
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