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...noted news anchor and novelist will be the principal speaker for Harvard’s 355th Commencement Afternoon Exercises on June 8. The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), responsible for choosing each year’s afternoon speaker, selected Lehrer for his “objectivity and intelligence?? and the respect he inspires, according to the announcement in the Harvard Gazette yesterday. In his over 40 years as a journalist, Lehrer has won numerous awards, including the Presidential National Humanities Medal in 1999. He has also published 15 novels and moderated 10 of the televised presidential candidate debates over...
Because, fundamentally, there is a common intelligence??one of grammatical rules, one of social demureness—which would seem to dictate that Scene would not see the light of day and that if it did, it would at least be checked and double-checked. Something with such great potential to inflame should be, after all, an irreproachably well-written product...
Rather than be discouraged, Keefe uses what little knowledge he can gather on Echelon as a jumping off point to analyze and criticize the intelligence community’s growing reliance on signals intelligence??a tactic whose effectiveness is constantly dropping as technology becomes more sophisticated, and the sea of signals in the air gets incomprehensibly dense. Reading like a spy novel itself, revealing information at a guarded pace to maximize the reader’s paranoia, Keefe’s book explains how the National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA’s reliance on signals intelligence...
...news for the actual spies. No more James Bond, no more Ethan Hunt, and certainly no more xXx. Using technology as an insulating barrier makes sense from a certain viewpoint, but Keefe argues that the government’s reliance on signals intelligence at the expense of human intelligence??“old fashioned, cloak and dagger, man-on-the-ground spying”—has ominous implications for national security in the present...
Keefe, in addition, is surprisingly willing to take the Bush administration’s claims on face value. He frames the declaration of war on Iraq as an honest mistake resulting from over-reliance on signals intelligence??ignoring the many other factors that clearly influenced the current administration’s decision...