John Pike
John Pike
agency consists government interest national security target wide
If it is an international transaction, the National Security Agency is monitoring it. The target is wide open: Essentially, it consists of anything that would be of interest to the U.S. government -- and the rest of the English-speaking world.
sounds
It sounds like it's, unfortunately, about what you'd expect, because the things do crash.
appointed commission talking
It's all political. You have politicians on the BRAC commission who were appointed by politicians and who were they talking to? Politicians,
certainly defense false imperfect intercept nuclear simply talking
It's certainly not going to be able to intercept all of them all of the time. If we're talking about incoming nuclear missiles, that imperfect defense is going to simply be a false sense of security.
certainly intercept
It's certainly not going to be able to intercept all of them all of the time,
adequately fact hired
They've hired a lot of new people. You know they are not all going to be adequately trained, that's a fact of life.
hope perfectly reason work
As with every other weapon, there is no reason to hope that it is going to work perfectly all of the time.
help
They couldn't just do closures to help Republicans, ... It would be transparently political.
activism bases drive local political
They are one-company towns. That's going to drive the local political activism to keep the bases open.
certainly driving question vehicle whether
You could certainly question whether an amphibious vehicle is the most appropriate ... to be driving around in a desert.
package
I think we're going to see a package deal.
congress landing people until
If you're not going to have a lunar landing until 2018, how are you going to keep people and Congress interested?
among bring competition home sum zero
It's a zero sum competition among these politicians to bring home the bacon.
basis military
It's discredited the American military without any basis in fact,