problem with hiring paranoids...

[rich]

Phil Klay's book of short stories Redeployment is quite good. definitely in
the Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried vein. war makes everyone paranoid,
as a soldier it appears it's a necessity

rich


On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:12 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> The article makes a better claim that Manning had cause to develop a
> paranoid personality than it does with Snowden. Snowden's becoming a
> highly-paid computer guy without having earned even a high school degree
> doesn't imply that he was lying about his credentials or leading a double
> life. If anything, not having a degree of any kind is a badge of honor in
> the hacker world. The son of some friends of mine barely (if at all)
> graduated from high school (even flunking his computer class), and was
> snapped up for a high-paying job at Google. Snowden's career trajectory
> doesn't seem much of an anomaly, considering that he was interested both in
> joining the military and was a self-described "computer wizard."
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Mackin
> Sent: Jun 4, 2014 12:09 PM
> To: pynchon -l
> Subject: Re: problem with hiring paranoids...
>
> 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."
>>
>
>  - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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