The Deep State (35 page)

16
. “In NSA-Intercepted Data, Those Not Targeted Far Outnumber the Foreigners Who Are,”
Washington Post
, July 5, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-nsa-intercepted-data-those-not-targeted-far-outnumber-the-foreigners-who-are/2014/07/05/8139adf8-045a-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html.

17
. Author interview with Thomas Drake, former senior executive of the National Security Agency, July 8, 2014.

18
.
Net Losses: Estimating the Global Cost of Cybercrime
, Center for Strategic and International Studies, June 2014. http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/reports/rp-economic-impact-cybercrime2.pdf.

19
. Author correspondence with William Edward Binney, former official of the National Security Agency, August 8, 2014.

20
. “Exclusive: Secret Contract Tied NSA and Security Industry Pioneer,” Reuters, December 20, 2014. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220.

21
. “C.I.A. Is Said to Pay AT&T for Call Data,”
New York Times,
November 7, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/us/cia-is-said-to-pay-att-for-call-data.html.

22
. “In Surveillance Debate, White House Turns Its Focus to Silicon Valley,”
New York Times,
May 2, 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/us/politics/white-house-shifts-surveillance-debate-to-private-sector.html.

23
. “FTC Recommends Congress Require the Data Broker Industry to Be More Transparent and Give Consumers Greater Control over Their Personal Information,” Federal Trade Commission press release, May 27, 2014. http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/05/ftc-recommends-congress-require-data-broker-industry-be-more.

Chapter Ten. Personnel Is Policy

1
. “President Obama on ‘House of Cards': Frank Underwood is ‘Getting a Lot of Things Done,'”
The Wrap
, December 17, 2013. http://www.thewrap.com/president-obama-house-cards-frank-underwood-getting-lot-things-done/.

2
. “One Documentary Later, Rumsfeld's Inner World Remains ‘Unknown,'” National Public Radio, March 30, 2014. http://www.npr.org/2014/03/30/294825234/one-documentary-later-rumsfelds-inner-world-remains-unknown.

3
. “Bob Rubin's House of Cards,”
Daily Beast,
November 29, 2008. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2008/11/29/bob-rubinrsquos-house-of-cards.html.

4
. “Former NSA Chief Is Working for Wall Street Now,”
The Huffington Post
, July 8, 2014. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/08/wall-street-cyber-council_n_5568142.html.

5
. “Banks Dreading Computer Hacks Call for Cyber War Council,” Bloomberg News, July 8, 2014. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-08/banks-dreading-computer-hacks-call-for-cyber-war-council.html.

6
. Ibid.

7
. “Robert Gates and Iran/Contra,”
Counterpunch
, November 8, 2006. http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/11/08/robert-gates-and-iran-contra/.

8
. Author interview with Raymond L. McGovern, January 19, 2014.

9
. Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.
,
George Nesterczuk, and Donald J. Devine, “Taking Charge of Federal Personnel,” Heritage Foundation, January 10, 2001. http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2001/01/taking-charge-of-federal-personnel.

10
. “Ties to GOP Trumped Know-How Among Staff Sent to Rebuild Iraq,”
Washington Post,
September 17, 2006. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600193.html.

11
. Bob Woodward,
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III
, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

12
. “Requirements for the TRAILBLAZER and THINTHREAD Systems,” Office of the Inspector General, Department of Defense, December 13, 2004, redacted copy archived by the Federation of American Scientists. https://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/ig-thinthread.pdf.

13
. “The Kasich Case: From Congressman to Businessman: John Kasich Cuts a New Deal,”
New York Observer
, September 17, 2001. http://observer.com/2001/09/the-kasich-case-from-congressman-to-businessman-john-kasich-cuts-a-new-deal/.

14
. “Lehman Brothers Collapse Haunts John Kasich in Ohio Governor's Race,” ABC News, May 12, 2010. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2010-election-wall-street-factor-ohio-governors-race/story?id=10586618.

15
. “10 Questions with Ohio Gov. John Kasich,” CNBC, July 14, 2015. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/14/s-with-ohio-gov-john-kasich.html.

16
. “The Disturbing Link Between Psychopathy and Leadership,”
Forbes
, April 25, 2013. http://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/25/the-disturbing-link-between-psychopathy-and-leadership/.

17
. Andrew Cockburn,
Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy
, New York: Scribner, 2007.

18
. “Attitudes to Torture,” Amnesty International, May 2014. http://www.amnestyusa.org/pdfs/GlobalSurveyAttitudesToTorture2014.pdf.

Chapter Eleven. Austerity for Thee but Not for Me

1
. “John Kerry Slams ‘New Isolationism' and Says US Behaving Like Poor Nation,”
The Guardian
, February 27, 2014. http://web.archive.org/web/20140228160343.

2
.
Social Justice in the OECD—How Do the Member States Compare?
Bertelsmann Foundation, October 2011. http://www.sgi-network.org/uploads/tx_amsgistudies/SGI11_Social_Justice_OECD.pdf.

3
. “Maternal Mortality Rates Up in the U.S.,” UPI, May 2, 2014. http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2014/05/02/Maternal-mortality-rates-up-in-the-US/4671399049359/.

4
. “2010 Mortality,” Texas Department of State Health Services. http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/chs/vstat/vs10/nmortal.shtm.

5
. “U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel,” Congressional Research Service, June 10, 2015. http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf.

6
. “Life Expectancy: Data by Country,” World Health Organization, 2013. http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.688?lang=en.

7
. “The Sorry State of Amtrak's On-Time Performance, Mapped,”
Washington Post
, July 10, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/10/the-sorry-state-of-amtraks-on-time-performance-mapped/.

8
. “Roads to Ruin: Towns Rip Up the Pavement,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 17, 2010. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704913304575370950363737746.

9
. Author interview with Brian J. O'Malley, July 12, 2014.

10
. “The Rockets from Hamas, and the Iron Dome That Could Use Patching,” National Public Radio,
All Things Considered,
July 9, 2014. http://www.npr.org/2014/07/09/330183774/the-rockets-from-hamas-and-the-iron-dome-that-could-use-patching.

11
. “Congress Backs Aid to Israel,”
Politico
, August 1, 2014. http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/senate-approves-israel-aid-109642.html.

12
. “This Is Why Washington Is Awful: Senators Congratulate Themselves for Giving Israel More Money,”
Salon
, August 4, 2014. http://www.salon.com/2014/08/04/this_is_why_washington_is_awful_senators_congratulate_themselves_for_giving_israel_more_money.

13
. “Prison Construction Boom Reaches 3 in 10 Counties,” Urban Institute, April 29, 2004. http://www.urban.org/publications/900710.html.

14
. Frank Schmalleger and John Smykla,
Corrections in the 21st
Century, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011.

15
. “Detroit's Latest Pension Disgrace: A Gaudy New Arena at Retirees' Expense,”
Salon,
July 24, 2014. http://www.salon.com/2014/07/24/detroits_pension_disgrace_a_gaudy_new_stadium_at_retirees_expense_partner.

16
. “Isolation Isn't an Option,”
Washington Post,
May 4, 2014 (print edition).

17
. “Dethrone ‘King Dollar,'”
New York Times
, August 27, 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/opinion/dethrone-king-dollar.html.

18
. “Poverty Rate Is Up in New York City, and Income Gap Is Wide, Census Data Show,”
New York Times
, September 19, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/19/nyregion/poverty-rate-in-city-rises-to-21-2.html.

19
. “Afghans Worry as U.S. Spending Boom Comes to an End,”
Washington Post
, June 9, 2014. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/afghans-worry-as-us-spending-boom-comes-to-an-end/2014/06/08/ec9645a0-e995-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html.

20
. “America's Global Image Remains More Positive Than China's,” Pew Research Global Attitudes Project, July 18, 2013. http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/07/18/americas-global-image-remains-more-positive-than-chinas.

Chapter Twelve. A Stopped Clock Is Right Twice a Day

1
. “As Candidate for Congress, Ted Yoho Suggested Limiting the Right to Vote to Property Owners,” Right Wing Watch, May 20, 2014. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/candidate-congress-ted-yoho-suggested-limiting-right-vote-property-owners.

2
. “Tim Geithner's Principal Hypocrisy,” Reuters, August 6, 2012. http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/08/06/tim-geithner%E2%80%99s-principal-hypocrisy/.

3
. “George Will: Colleges Become the Victims of Progressivism,”
Washington Post,
June 6, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-college-become-the-victims-of-progressivism/2014/06/06/e90e73b4-eb50-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html.

4
. “The Nonprofit Sector in Brief 2014,” Urban Institute, October 2014. http://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/alfresco/publication-pdfs/413277-The-Nonprofit-Sector-in-Brief--.PDF.

5
. “$105 Million in 5 Years,” CNN Money, September 12, 2014. http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/12/news/companies/goodell-pay.

6
. “The Red Line and the Rat Line,”
London Review of Books
, April 17, 2014. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line.

7
. “
Conservatives Seek to Regain Control of Republican Agenda,”
Washington Post
, May 15, 2014.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/conservatives-seek-to-regain-control-of-republican-agenda/2014/05/15/aaa20c80-dc6e-11e3-bda1-9b46b2066796_story.html.

8
. “Republican Civil War Erupts: Business Groups v. Tea Party,” Bloomberg News, October 8, 2013. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-18/republican-civil-war-erupts-business-groups-v-tea-party.html.

9
. “No, the 113th Congress Wasn't the Least Productive Ever,”
National Journal
, December 23, 2014. http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/no-the-113th-congress-wasn-t-the-least-productive-ever-20141223.

10
. Author correspondence, May 29, 2015.

11
. “This Map Shows Why the F-35 Has Turned into a Trillion-Dollar Fiasco,”
Business Insider Australia
, August 20, 2014. http://www.businessinsider.com.au/this-map-explains-the-f-35-fiasco-2014-8.

12
. “The Royals of Capitol Hill,”
The Economist
, July 19, 2014. http://www.econ
omist.com/news/united-states/21607878-house-members-have-too-much-job-security-makes-bad-government-royals.

13
. “Lack of Earmarks, Appropriations Bills Forces Lobbying Firm Van Scoyoc to Change Approach,”
Washington Post
, May 9, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/lack-of-earmarks-appropriations-bills-forces-lobbying-firm-van-scoyoc-to-change-approach/2014/05/09/9bebc310-be74-11e3-b195-dd0c1174052c_story.html.

14
. “Dow Posts Biggest Loss in Three Weeks,”
Wall Street Journal
, June 11, 2014. http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-stocks-trade-lower-1402489039.

15
. “The Plight of the 1%,” Reuters, December 20, 2011. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/12/20/the-plight-of-the-1/.

Chapter Thirteen. Signs of Change?

1
. “As Syria War Escalates, Americans Cool to U.S. Intervention: Reuters/Ipsos Poll,” Reuters, August 24, 2013. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/25/us-syria-crisis-usa-poll-idUSBRE97O00E20130825.

2
. “I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq,”
Washington Post
, November 30, 2008. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112802242.html.

3
. “WikiLeaks' Trove Is a Mere Drop in Ocean of US Classified Documents,”
Christian Science Monitor
, December 21, 2010. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Buzz/2010/1221/WikiLeaks-trove-is-a-mere-drop-in-ocean-of-US-classified-documents.

4
. “President Gives Vote of Confidence to CIA Chief,”
The Hill,
August 1, 2014. http://thehill.com/policy/technology/214100-obama-stands-behind-cia-leader.

5
. “Senate, CIA Clash over Redactions in Interrogation Report,”
Washington Post
, August 5, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/senate-cia-clash-over-redactions-in-interrogation-report/2014/08/05/2f904f04-1ce0-11e4-ab7b-696c295ddfd1_story.html.

6
. “For Kitchen Staff at Federal Agencies, Background Checks Are a Must-Order Item,”
Washington Post,
August 9, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-kitchen-staff-at-federal-agencies-background-checks-are-a-must-order-item/2014/08/09/fefa1fe6-1c08-11e4-ae54-0cfe1f974f8a_story.html.

7
. “The NSA Is Crippling America's Economy,”
Salon
, November 27, 2013. http://www.salon.com/2013/11/27/the_nsa_is_hurting_americas_economy_partner.

8
. “Microsoft, Suspecting NSA Spying, to Ramp Up Efforts to Encrypt Its Internet Traffic,”
Washington Post,
November 26, 2013. http://www.washington
post.com/business/technology/microsoft-suspecting-nsa-spying-to-ramp-up-efforts-to-encrypt-its-internet-traffic/2013/11/26/44236b48-56a9-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html.