Former Bush NSA director calls for ‘digital Blackwater’

[Playinghardball]

Source: RawReplay
By David Edwards

The man who headed the NSA and CIA under President George W. Bush suggested Friday that mercenaries were needed to deal with growing cyber threats.

Gen. Michael Hayden told the Aspen Security Forum that in the near future, the Department of Defense may have to allow the creation of a “digital Blackwater.”

Private sector offense “might be one of those big new ideas in terms of how we have to conduct ourselves in this new cyber domain,” Hayden explained. “You think back long enough in history and there are times when the private sector was responsible for its own defense.”

“We may come to a point where defense is more actively and aggressively defined even for the private sector and what is permitted there is something that we would never let the private sector do in physical space… Let me really throw out a bumper sticker for you. How about a digital Blackwater?” he suggested

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[snagglepuss]

1. Nothing could go wrong with that.

:sarcasm:

[Scuba]

2. What a swell idea. Maybe Haliburton would make a good choice...

... or maybe Correctional Corporation of America. Yeah, that's the ticket.

[beac]

3. "something that we would never let the private sector do in physical space", eh???

"We" let Blackwater mercenaries rape, pillage and murder "in physical space" for crying out loud!

The only "space" Blackwater employees belong in is PRISON.

[Lint Head]

4. Some fat fuck right wing billionaire must be hitting him up to invest in a business venture.

Perfect. Just hire an ex head of the NSA and CIA to give the business credibility. Then suck off of the government tit as you gain contracts to destroy the right to privacy. Wonderful!

My family fought in WWII to end fascism.

Fascism is among us today and it must die!