The NSA Is Being Sued for Keeping Keith Alexander’s Financial Records Secret
August 5th, 2014Via: Vice:
Former NSA Director Keith Alexander’s lucrative entrance into the private sector has raised a heap of ethical questions about the spy chief’s intentions.
Now the NSA has yet another dilemma on its hands: Investigative journalist Jason Leopold is suing the agency for denying him the release of financial disclosure statements attributable to its former director.
According to reports, prospective clients of Alexander’s, namely large banks, will be billed $1 million a month for his cyber-consulting services. Recode.net quipped that for an extra million, Alexander would show them the back door (state-installed spyware mechanisms) that the NSA put in consumer routers.
But some aren’t simply laughing off the retired four-star general’s new endeavor. Some, like Leopold, are concerned that Alexander might actually plan on selling high-level state security secrets for his hefty price tag.
In the Baltimore division of the federal district of Maryland, the law offices of Jeffrey Light have served the NSA with a complaint, listing Leopold’s multiple attempts to retrieve Alexander’s records, and the utter refusal by the agency to fulfill the journalist’s requests.
Citing the Ethics in Government Act, Florida Congressman Alan Grayson wrote on behalf of Leopold, in a letter addressed to NSA Deputy Counsel Ariana Cerelenko, pressing that the public release of Alexander’s financial records are required—“unless the President finds that the release of the form would ‘reveal sensitive information,’ or ‘compromise the national interest.’”
Thank you for posting this article Kevin. So sorry I missed my contribution for July. I’ll try to keep this short, but you know me, Ms. Long Winded.
I’ve been a fed for 24 years. I have training out the ass about this that or another thing, but nowhere in the regulations is there a peep about what you can or cannot do after you leave government service which of course, is another revolving door in and of itself.
This story is about a ma who is promoting himself and hopes to enrich himself from knowledge he has learned while being paid with US taxpayer dollars. This is ENRICHMENT at the taxpayers expense. It is fraudulent activity that can be prosecuted,
Now who is going to get up off their ass to prosecute this dude is another story. Eric Holder, the U.S, Attorney General?
If you are waiting for him to get up off of his ass and prosecute anyone, for anything, anywhere, and at any time you will die from holding your breath. Just ask all of the banks.
I hope suing for Keith Alexander’s records makes a difference in the grander scheme of things, but he is going to make billions and no one, anywhere at any time will stop him and he knows it.
Juat imagine. He probably has videos of Scalia and Cheney doing something to each other. You know, like shooting each other in the face, with, uh, you know, bullets. Ugh. Prosecute that. It won’t happen and this guy knows it.
Thank you, Eric the Non_uP-Holder.
typo, not ma but man.