TODAY ON THE ALEX JONES SHOW 11/12/10

TODAY ON THE ALEX JONES SHOW

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Alex talks with Washington, D.C.-based investigative journalist, author and columnist Wayne Madsen about the mysterious missile that appeared off the coast of California. Madsen is a U.S. Navy veteran. He worked for RCA as a government consultant on contracts for the National Security Agency and later worked for the Navy's Naval Data Automation Command as a civilian employee and at the State Department. Since 2005, he has worked as a freelance journalist and blogger and currently edits theWayne Madsen Report. Alex also talks with regular Friday guest Bob Chapman of the International Forecaster about the economy and other news items. Alex takes your calls and covers the latest news.

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NSA: U.S. Must Secure the Internet

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According to National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith Alexander, the United States federal government has the overarching duty and responsibility in securing the Internet to safeguard against cyber-criminal activities. Top military officials concurred with Alexander, but the government still has yet to provide details of how it intends to tackle Internet security issues. According to site Threat Post, Alexander "expressed confidence that the country's information security apparatus was up to the task, but acknowledged the difficulty of securing the Internet, a network that many security experts see as hopelessly broken and flawed by design."

The government has been victim of a number of cyber attacks in recent years, the most notable one being an attack by way of an infected USB key. While Alexander's Gov. 2.0 Summit speech helps to highlight that Internet security, both internally and externally, will be a key government issue moving forward, it is unlikely that Alexander will be successful at mitigating criticism against the government for not being responsive enough to cyber-security vulnerabilities.

According to Alexander, the comprehensive actions of the NSA and other government entities involved on cyber-security will need to resepct the civil rights of citizens. "Our citizens take a lot of interest in the government's activities in this area, and I have an obligation to the law and the American people to ensure everything we do preserves and protects their rights while protecting our interests," says Alexander. 

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Pentagon declined to investigate hundreds of child porn cases

John Cook
Yahoo News

A 2006 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation into the purchase of child pornography online turned up more than 250 civilian and military employees of the Defense Department -- including some with the highest available security clearance -- who  used credit cards or PayPal to purchase images of children in sexual situations. But the Pentagon investigated only a handful of the cases, Defense Department records show.

The cases turned up during a 2006 ICE inquiry, called Project Flicker, which targeted overseas processing of child-porn payments. As part of the probe, ICE investigators gained access to the names and credit card information of more than 5,000 Americans who had subscribed to websites offering images of child pornography. Many of those individuals provided military email addresses or physical addresses with Army or fleet ZIP codes when they purchased the subscriptions.

In a related inquiry, the Pentagon's Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) cross-checked the ICE list against military databases to come up with a list of Defense employees and contractors who appeared to be guilty of purchasing child  pornography. The names included staffers for the secretary of defense, contractors for the ultra-secretive National Security Agency, and a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. But the DCIS opened investigations into only 20 percent of the individuals identified, and succeeded in prosecuting just a handful.

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