problem with hiring paranoids...

[David Morris]

The author cites anonymous sources within the intelligence community. He
doesn't originate this idea, at least if you believe that his sources are
real.

On Wednesday, June 4, 2014, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hofstadter is good.  In addition, I was wondering about the occurrence of
> these two 'fragile' personalities in the forefront of things being the
> result of deliberate hiring or promotion policy.  Does anyone but the
> author of the current article think this is the case, or has written it up?
>
> P
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> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','alicewmalice at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> The Paranoid Style in American Politics[1] is an essay by American
>> historian Richard J. Hofstadter, first published in Harper's Magazine
>> in November 1964; it served as the title essay of a book by the author
>> in the same year. Written at a time when Senator Barry Goldwater had
>> won the Republican Presidential nomination over the more moderate
>> Nelson A. Rockefeller, Hofstadter's article explores the influence of
>> conspiracy theory and "movements of suspicious discontent" throughout
>> American history.
>>
>>
>> http://www.units.miamioh.edu/havighurstcenter/conferences/documents/shcherbenok.pdf
>>
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mackin.paul at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>> > Very interesting assertion.  Has anyone else written about this?  Good
>> > article.
>> >
>> > P
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr.
>> > <roger.rustad at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','roger.rustad at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://guardianlv.com/2014/05/ed-snowden-wants-to-come-home-and-why-the-us-needs-him-back/
>> >>
>> >> "So, the presence of two such 'fragile' personalities in the middle of
>> two
>> >> separate spectacular security failures may not be an accident at all.
>> It may
>> >> be a side effect of an intentional government policy, one that has led
>> to
>> >> unfortunate consequences. The problem with hiring paranoids to protect
>> >> America’s secrets is that it is impossible to determine what those
>> paranoids
>> >> are going to be paranoid about."
>> >
>> >
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