problem with hiring paranoids...

[Paul Mackin]

Thanks, David.   It does leave you wondering.

P


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 7:37 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, alice malice <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>
>>> 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> 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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>>>
>>
>>
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