The Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond fund is an exchange traded fund (ETF) within the Vanguard family. There are 20 other funds we track which provide a return similar to VCIT.
Within the Vanguard family of funds, the most positively correlated other funds are Short-Term Corporate Bond, Intermediate-Term Bond, Long-Term Corporate Bond, Total Bond Market, Short-Term Bond.
Outside of the Vanguard family, the most positively correlated other funds are Vanguard Mutual Funds - Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index Admiral Shares Purchase Fee: 0.25%, SPDR - Barclays Intermediate Term Corporate Bond, Vanguard Mutual Funds - Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade Admiral Shares, Vanguard Mutual Funds - Intermediate-Term Investment-Grade, iShares - Intermediate Credit Bond ETF.
There are multiple other funds which have extremely high correlation to Vanguard's Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond fund.


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From Cambridge Enchorial Press comes a new book by Clive Challis on one of the all time greats, Helmut Krone, the AD who worked with Bill Bernbach at Doyle Dane & Bernbach back in the day.
Helmut Krone (1925-1996) was a leading seditionary. He started out as a graphic designer who despised advertising — and finished up as an art director claiming to be a graphic designer, 'the only one in hard-core advertising ,' he said.
Krone shaped the two most important ad campaigns ever: for Volkswagen and the 'We try harder.' campaign for Avis. These two campaigns explored the difference between graphic design and advertising art direction — in fact Krone's work defined modern art direction for print.
Krone's work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian. He has been inducted into Art Directors' Halls of Fame from New York to Berlin.

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Q: Need a quadratic function that is larger than zero when variables are unequal I have a series of variables $a$, $b$, $c$, $d$, .... that are all positive and between zero and one, i.e., $0 \le a \le 1$, etc.
I need a quadratic function that is larger than zero if there is any pair of the variables unequal.
For any two variables $a \neq b$ that is quite easy: $(a-b)^2 > 0$
But I need something that does the same for three, four, five variables that could ideally be expressed in some iterative form.
So, for example, $(a-b-c)^2$ would not do the trick because that is not always >0 when $a \neq b$, because $a-b = c$ would be zero.
$(a-b)^2(a-c)^2(b-c)^2$ would also not be valid. It would not be >0 if $a \neq b$ because $b=c$ or $a=c$ would make the whole expression zero.
Is there any expression that would fulfill my requirements?

A: Consider $$p(x)=\sum_{i<j}(x_i-x_j)^2$$
if any pair of $x_i$ and $x_j$ are not equal, that will contribute to a positive term.

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easyJet Has Launched an Ad Campaign in the UK, Targeting Empty Nesters
In recent years, almost three-quarters of British parents at 45 or older have said they would like to take on a new challenge once their children fly the nest.
easyJet (EZY) has launched a new recruiting campaign in the UK to encourage adults over the age of 45 to join. The airline is encouraging parents who have their children grown or started their own careers before reaching that age, but also anyone looking for a new challenge in life.
Age is not a limit, and your valuable web content can be equally as important as the world's most successful TV shows, movies, music and more.
In the UK, 60% of British parents over 45 want to take on a new challenge once their children are grown. With this in mind, easyJet has set in motion a new campaign that encourages these empty nesters to join its ranks who will help maintain its reputation as the go-to airline for older travelers.
Is your age holding you back from pursuing your dream job? Check out the top ten career choices that EasyJet found to be most desirable for those over 45 years old. Out of those, working for charity and volunteering tops the list, but paramedic, teaching, librarianship, and becoming a crew member with easyJet were also in the top five.
The sad truth is that one-fifth of adults surveyed said they'd love to work closer with their children who are grown and on their own. There are 63% of those individuals who wish to be given the opportunity to travel in order to work with them.
Have you recently retired and are looking for a new career? It may be time to change your vocabulary, as well as the approach of your current career. Have you heard any of these phrases before, or want to learn some new ones? We recently published an article showing off why British cabin crew members use shortcuts and complicated language.
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New ads for easyJet feature employees who just became passengers in the past year. In one ad, a 59-year-old man who used to work in engineering and sales said, "This is the best time of my life."
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The doctor app Babylon provides therapy to 150,000 active users, while PlusGuidance, an online counselling service, has 10,000 users. Talkspace, another online therapy platform, reports it has 500,000 signed up users worldwide, with most in the United States.
Online training advises therapists on everything from using emojis to preventing misinterpretations. They also need to protect patients' personal data– a problem that has triggered controversy in the United States, where huge online treatment platforms have actually come under the spotlight.
Buckley stated clients must examine services' personal privacy policies prior to signing up. "Not all online counselling websites use expertly trained therapists or abide by a principles policy, so ask your GP for a suggestion in the very first instance. Just like all kinds of services and support, what works for a single person might not work for somebody else," he said.
Marc Bush, chief policy advisor at Young Minds, said that while online counselling services are valuable, "they should not replace in person treatment with a skilled professional. If a young person is having a hard time, we would encourage them to talk to their GP in the first circumstances, or to call an established service like The Mix, Childline or the Samaritans.".
For Rackham, who has actually generalised stress and anxiety disorder, online counselling wasn't the ideal fit. "I felt it was near difficult for the therapist to truly get a sense of the concerns I was dealing with, as all they had to go from was my typed-out words. I believe I understood after that online session how essential interpersonal interaction was.
" I'm a big fan of using innovation in all locations of my life as a solution to daily problems. I have apps for everything, however when it concerns mental health, you have to select how innovation plays a role in your healing very carefully.". Is Betterhelp Fsa Eligible
The company describes BetterHelp as the "biggest online therapy platform worldwide," tailored towards assisting individuals dealing with issues "such as stress, anxiety, relationships, parenting, depression, dependencies, eating, sleeping, trauma, anger, family disputes, LGBT matters, grief, faith [or] self esteem." The company's FAQ area on its site clearly mentions BetterHelp's app and counselors should not be used for individuals dealing with a severe mental disorder (schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder) or for individuals considering self-harm. Rather, the app prides itself on having licensed therapists and mental health experts readily available to assist people through text, telephone call or video chat. That's what numerous YouTubers who have actually accepted sponsorships from the company typically state in their own videos, where they speak on the stresses in their personal lives and feelings verging on stress and anxiety or anxiety. Bobby Burns, Elle Mills, Philip DeFranco, Heath Hussar, Boogie2988, Shane Dawson and ChandlerNWilson are all creators who have actually Is Betterhelp Fsa Eligible sponsors now.
A lot of these creators have discussed mental health concerns in the past, but as burnout becomes a bigger topic within the neighborhood– and mainstream world– sponsorships including BetterHelp have increased, regardless of the app not being precisely what the creators are promoting.
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Incredible Cooking Shows on Food Network That you Just Cannot Miss
Shows like Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.Chopped: Volume 3 from Food Network have always been fan favorites, but here's another list we think are must-watch.
Thanks to streaming services like Netflix, culinary shows have experienced a spike in interest, but when it comes to our favorite food-focused shows, nothing compares to The Food Network. There is always something to watch, whether we are interested in reality shows, educational shows, or a series about watching people eat tremendous amounts of food. These programs are the go-to picks for comfort television since they are all ideal for marathon viewing. So prepare yourself for a weekend filled with delicious food and entertainment by checking out the TV Guide's list of the top shows on The Food Network below.
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As entertaining to watch as its star chef is in the kitchen, Beat Bobby Flay. Bobby Flay must deal with whatever is thrown at him during any particular episode of the well-known competition series, in which chefs from all over the country dare him to make their signature dish better than they can. You watch the show more in the hopes that Flay and his ostensibly enormous ego will finally be brought down a peg even though he occasionally genuinely loses.
Supermarket Stakeout
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Supermarket Stakeout debuted in 2019 and is hosted by the outstanding Alex Guarnaschelli. The ingredients for the food that four chefs prepare in a grocery store parking lot can only come from the bags of random customers leaving the store. Each contestant receives $500 to spend on food from ostensibly trustworthy individuals. But are these clients more knowledgeable than the shows would have us believe?
BBQ Brawl
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The chef got into one of America's favorite past times on BBQ: eating barbecue. You'll like watching Flay as he searches the nation for the best-undiscovered BBQ spots and learns their cooking techniques if you enjoy lighting up the grill.
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We find it increasingly difficult to keep watching Chopped since we only want one person to win at the end. Unfortunately, we haven't quit watching Chopped yet. Chefs compete in the massively popular cooking competition series, which has already broadcast more than 500 episodes, where they are given a basket of ingredients and must impress the judges with their culinary prowess in order to advance to the next round and be eligible to win a cash reward.
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It's impossible to pinpoint when or why the U.S. developed a fascination with food trucks, some data points to the 1960s and the emergence of taco trucks in Los Angeles as its origins (via Smithsonian). A far simpler explanation for why food trucks are so well-liked is the ongoing passion for "The Great Food Truck Race," which made its debut in 2010.
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Design-conscious food fans went crazy over this Food Network/HGTV crossover. It would cost Robert Irvine and one of HGTV's designers $10,000 to make around a failing restaurant, from the ambiance to the menu. Real drama existed, but the couple consistently delivered.
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Guy Fieri, famously referred to as "a human air conditioner for happy sentiments" by fellow celebrity chef Alex Guarnaschelli, has been gracing the Food Network since his debut in 2006 with his outrageous antics. It's undeniable that the popularity of his defining series, "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives," has given him a lot of respect in his job. Without the added success of his original food competition show, "Guy's Grocery Games," it's difficult to conceive that he would have secured such a hefty contract renewal in 2021.
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The apex of Food Network programming is Alton Brown's Good Eats, which came with fresh episodes earlier this year after a seven-year absence. Good Eats is a creative series that combines history lectures with humorous acts to convey engaging stories about food and making various dishes. It is a combination of a food science show and an instructional cookery show. The way Brown employs various methods to capture what he's doing in the kitchen helps the series stand out in a way that very few cooking shows do, even though it may be very esoteric at times.
Tell us your favorites in the comments!
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You can enjoy the time spent in the warm indoor pool with mineral water.
The Jacuzzi is the ideal place to relax before or after spa treatments where the water jets gently massage your body.
After the time spent in the steam bath – hammam your skin will be improved and toxins will be removed. Hot steam increases blood circulation, stimulates the heart and lungs, improves metabolism and qualitative composition of blood, activities of the endocrine glands, relieves pain.
The stay in the Finnish sauna increases oxygen intake, increasing cardiac activity and purifies your skin of toxins. The high temperature and low level of humidity leads to dilation of blood vessels and in this way a larger quantity of blood reaches to the skin.
In our beauty salon you can find hairdressing, manicure and pedicure.
The modern fitness center of the hotel is suitable for active guests who want to maintain their good physical shape.


Iaccarino Sorrento Limousine Service will be pleased to drive you to the Archeological site of Pompeii, try the food specialties of the Campania region accompanied with the famous wine of Mount Vesuvius called:"Lacryma Christy" and visit the beautiful town of Positano on the Amalfi Coast.
The first stop will be in Pompeii where you will spend 2 hours to visit this famous Roman town that was totally buried from the ash in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD. Here you can visit the ruins for 2 hours on your own or arrange an official licensed guide.
Then we will drive you up to the winery called:" Cantina del Vesuvio" where you will have visit the vineyards, and also have lunch tasting the food specialties of our region like appetizer with salame, provolone, bruschetta, home made bread and extravirgin olive oil, then spaghetti with cherry tomatoes and to finish with a dessert all accompanied by 5 types of wines (white, red and roseè) and to finish with some spumante and a distilled of apricot (like digestive).
Then your driver will lead you on the Amalfi Coast where you can take some beautiful photos along the way before to stop in Positano where you will have some free time to visit the centre, do some shopping and take a nice picture from the Spiaggia Grande.
Your driver will drop you off at the port or Hotel at 4pm.
PAYMENT: We require only CASH payment in Euros.
NOT INCLUDED: lunch during the wine tasting (28 Euros per person), gratuities, entrance fees for Pompeii (15 Euros per person) and the additional cost to arrange a licensed guide in Pompeii.
-Entrance fees for Pompeii is free of charge for kids under 18 showing a valid ID and for everybody only the 1st Sunday of each month.


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In every search, Mycoff Fry Partners researches our 25,000-person database to identify potential candidates. We contact these individuals to determine their interest and suitability or to solicit suggestions of other possible candidates. Mycoff Fry Partners conducts telephone interviews to evaluate candidates' qualifications. We then submit our recommendation of the most qualified. From this list, we assist our clients to select a list of semi-finalists.
For "executive" recruiting assignments, Mycoff Fry Partners conducts or assists the client to conduct face-to-face interviews with selected semi-finalists to further evaluate candidates' suitability and to assist the client in identifying top prospects.
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In all recruitments, Mycoff Fry Partners will notify candidates of their selection or rejection, conduct background investigations, and assist with salary, contract, and employment negotiations.
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Clement Hil Goldberg is a multidisciplinary artist working across film, animation, sculpture and theater to codify an extinction aesthetic. Their work has been exhibited at REDCAT Theatre, VORTEX Rep, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and the Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art at U Penn, Anthology Film Archives; CounterPulse, Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, SOMArts, Luggage Store Gallery, Artists Television Access, all in San Francisco; and over 50 international film and arts festivals including Frameline, Outfest, MIX NYC, Hamburg International Queer Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival. Clement received an MFA in Art Practice and a Graduate Certificate in New Media Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
Goldberg created the stop motion animated web series The Deer Inbetween and joined Michelle Tea to produce the 20-filmmaker collaborative experimental feature film Valencia. Valencia won Jury Awards for Best Experimental Feature at the Polari Film Festival and Best Narrative Feature at Chicago Reeling. Goldberg was awarded a San Francisco Arts Commission IAC grant in visual arts in 2017 and their project Our Future Ends was awarded a Creative Work Fund visual arts grant in collaborative partnership with CounterPulse in 2016.


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Witness to Dianetics: For the first time, the letters of key Hubbard ally Donald H. Rogers - 2018-05-08
Witness to Dianetics: For the first time, the letters of key Hubbard ally Donald H. Rogers May 8, 2018, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
Jon Atack has provided us a marvelous exclusive. He's provided us with copies of letters he received from a man name Don Rogers in the mid-1980s. And we've asked historian Chris Owen to help us understand just how valuable these letters are and what's in them, followed by the first of three Rogers letters in full (we'll post the second and third tomorrow). It's quite a week of early Dianetics history here at the Bunker!
Over the course of about a year in 1984-85, Scientology's leading unauthorized historian, Jon Atack, exchanged a series of letters with one of Hubbard's earliest collaborators, Don Rogers. Atack had reached out to Rogers in the course of researching "Hubbard Through the Looking Glass," a manuscript that later became his book A Piece of Blue Sky – a title prompted by a statement that Rogers attributed to Hubbard. The letters, which the Bunker can now publish following Rogers' 2003 death, provide many insights into the earliest days of Dianetics and Scientology.
Rogers was a young electrical engineer when he met Hubbard in 1949, just as Hubbard was in the process of developing Dianetics. He was a member of the "Bay Head Circle," a small group of collaborators who met at Hubbard's beach cottage at Bay Head, New Jersey. The others involved were John W. Campbell, the science-fiction editor; Art Ceppos, the head of the Hermitage House publishing firm; Dr. Joseph Winter, a Michigan physician and contributor to Campbell's magazine Astounding; and Sara Hubbard, who played a major but regrettably poorly documented role in the development of Dianetics. All of the group, plus a lawyer named C. Parker Morgan, became the board of directors of the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation established in Elizabeth, New Jersey in April 1950.
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In Which the I Con Uses Top Secret Spy Weapon, the "Conjunction," Against Journalists
October 29, 2013 /26 Comments/in FISA /by emptywheel
Man, it looks Mike Rogers and Keith Alexander conducted one hell of an InfoOp against the nation's NatSec journalists today. Congratulations, spooks, you've finally managed successful propaganda.
Before I explain what I understand to have happened, let me be clear: I don't claim to know what the slides and Q&A from Boundless Informant mean. It may well be that the truth lies between what a bunch of reporters are now reporting and what a series of papers around the world have reported. What I am focusing on here is what the I Con has said as compared to how it has been reported.
As I noted last week, James Clapper used a poor translation of a French article which clearly talked about collecting metadata, denied that the NSA was collecting call content, and based on that gimmick claimed Le Monde had made an error.
Then, in remarkable timing that has been replicated several times during this scandal, the WSJ reported just before the hearing on a topic that both Mike Rogers and Keith Alexander had rehearsed answers for during the hearing. I believe the original lede of the WSJ story (it has been updated) read the same as the current article does,
Millions of phone records at the center of a firestorm in Europe over spying by the National Security Agency were secretly supplied to the U.S. by European intelligence services—not collected by the NSA, upending a furor that cast a pall over trans-Atlantic relations
I don't think the story ever said all the records were collected by Europeans, just that millions were. But in any case, I have zero doubt that WSJ's secret sources told them something like this, that Europeans gave us data, which got reported in a way to suggest the Europeans collected all of it.
At the end of a long sequence in the hearing itself, in a comment not read from prepared statement, Alexander said this (all transcriptions here my own — please let me know of any errors):
Those screen shots that show–or at least, lead people to believe that we, NSA, or the United States, collected that information is false. And it's false that it was collected on European citizens. It was neither.
And that statement, which did not accord with what Alexander had just said (including a long passage read from a prepared statement), resulted in headlines like this:
NSA Chief Says Phone Records Given to Agency by Cooperating European Intelligence Services, Not Intercepted by NSA
Or, from the WSJ's update, making this conclusion:
In a congressional hearing Tuesday, the National Security Agency director, Gen. Keith Alexander, confirmed the broad outlines of the Journal report, saying that the specific documents released by Mr. Snowden didn't represent data collected by the NSA or any other U.S. agency and didn't include records from calls within those countries.
I think one of the reasons this InfoOp worked so well is that reporters had almost no time between the hearing and their filing deadline to review what actually got said (I tweeted immediately that Alexander's statement actually didn't confirm the WSJ's early report, but am only now getting this all down).
So let's look carefully at what Alexander really said (this starts at 41:14).
Rogers starts by asking Alexander to elaborate, specifically with regards to the US and NSA (he may be invoking the WSJ story, but he doesn't say so).
Rogers: And to that end, if I can, Mr. Alexander, there was some reporting that the story about French citizens being spied on by a particular slide that was leaked on a slide deck concluded that French citizens were being spied on. Can you expound on that a little bit? By the United States, by the way, specifically the National Security Agency.
Reading from a document of some sort, Alexander repeats the gimmick Clapper used last week, suggesting that the reports said the NSA had collected phone calls (content), then "corrects" their report to say Boundless Informant actually tracks metadata (which is actually what the reports had said).
Alexander: Chairman, the assertions by reporters in France, Le Monde, Spain, El Mundo, and Italy, L'Espresso, that NSA collected tens of millions of phone calls are completely false. They cite as evidence screen shots of the results of a web tool used for data management purposes but both they and the person who stole the classified data did not understand what they were looking at. The web tool counts metadata records from around the world and displays the totals in several different formats. [my emphasis]
Alexander then adds to last week's gimmick of claiming the Europeans reported these as calls, not metadata, by denying we, alone, collected this data.
The sources of the metadata include data legally collected by NSA under its various authorities as well as data provided to NSA by foreign partners. To be perfectly clear, this is not information that we collected on European citizens. It represents information that we and our NATO allies have collected in defense of our countries and in support of military operations.
This is not information "we" collected (on European citizens, but I'll come back to that), it's data "collected by NSA … as well as data provided … by foreign partners." It's data "we and our NATO allies have collected."
Those conjunctions — "as well as" … "and" — which in Alexander's written statement make it clear that both the Europeans and US collect this intelligence, disappeared from much of the reporting on this.
Alexander also introduced that this information was collected "in defense of our countries and in support of military operations," another conjunction that disappeared from much of the reporting, resulting in reports that this was exclusively about military intelligence.
Now Rogers introduces something that Alexander hadn't said (though the WSJ had). This data was collected external to the country in question.
Rogers: So if I understand you correctly this information was likely collected external to the country of which it may have been reported in defense of operations ongoing in the world in which NATO participates.
Alexander: That is correct.
This could include a great many things, including cable landings that aren't "in" the country in question but collect off a cable exiting the country in question, which is certainly how we do a lot of collection on other countries. But it doesn't address the Boundless Informant claim, which is that this information is collected "on" these countries.
Rogers also sort of restates this muddied defense idea from Alexander, "in defense of operations ongoing in the world in which NATO participates." Some journalists assumed that all NATO operations take place in Afghanistan so these must obviously be Afghan operations. But of course NATO is headquartered — and defensive operations take place in — Europe.
Now Rogers goes through a series that seems utterly incompatible with the claim that this data was collected external to Europe (or at least the countries in question). He gets Alexander to confirm that US targets — Chinese intelligence, Russian intelligence, and Al Qaeda — use European telecom networks.
Rogers: Hmm. And so, let me just ask you this. If, as you study the networks of the world, let's just talk about the European Union for a second if I may. Is it possible for Chinese intelligence services, military or otherwise, to use networks that you would find in any nation-states of the European Union?
Alexander: Absolutely, Chairman.
Rogers: How about Russian intelligence services? Is it possible that they could use networks–communication networks, computer networks–inside the European Union for what they're up to?
Rogers: How about al Qaeda? Would they use, could they use, is it possible for them to use the networks found in the European Union to conduct planning, operations, or execution of operations?
Alexander: They could, absolutely, Chairman. [my emphasis]
"In nation-states of the European Union … inside the European Union … networks found in the European Union." Having just established that targets (which if they were Russian or Chinese assets or European citizen al Qaeda associates might in fact be European citizens) use European telecom networks, Rogers asks Alexander whether it's the NSA's job to collect this intelligence.
Rogers: And would it be in the purview of the National Security Agency to try to prevent those activities, especially if it went through the European Union, maybe even targeted at the United States, or targeted at one of our allies?
Here, Alexander gives away the game. He admits to sharing this intelligence, which Rogers has just laid out consists of US targets using European networks, with Europeans. US sharing intelligence on people using European networks with Europeans, not vice versa.
Alexander: It is Chairman, and it's something that we share with our allies.
Again, Rogers makes it clear that Alexander — "you" — would collect this.
Rogers: So you would collect information in those cases and share it with our allies in a way that was appropriate, is that correct?
Now Alexander and Rogers carry out a ploy that will be transparent to anyone who has looked at a cable map, but which apparently got a lot of journalists wide-eyed about this great big giant world again.
Alexander: That's correct, and it may not be actually collected in Europe. Because it's a global network.
Rogers: But it could be in Europe, it could be somewhere else. It could be in the Middle East, it could be in Asia, it could be in the United States, by a FISA warrant collected by the FBI, is that correct? Hmm. And so you share information with our European allies and they share sometimes information they have with us?
Alexander: They do, Chairman.
We collect information, including intelligence on targets using networks in the European Union, and share it with European allies and sometimes they do the same with us.
By now, anyone who has covered counterterrorism for a few years should recognize what Rogers has just done, which mimics what a lot of our legal excuses for wiretapping the US do. He has laid out targets that — he has made clear — use networks in the EU, but he has defined them as non-European, as Chinese or Russian or al Qaeda, even though all three might well be European citizens.
Having done that, he now gets Alexander to agree that collecting on US Chinese or Russian or al Qaeda targets (who might be European) in Europe is not collecting on the citizens of the respected nation-states.
Rogers: So the very certain accusation that the National Security Agency was collecting information on these citizens of the respected nation-states, I just want to get on the record again, is false, that did not happen. Is that correct?
Alexander: That's correct. Those screen shots that show–or at least, lead people to believe that we, NSA, or the United States, collected that information is false. And it's false that it was collected on European citizens. It was neither.
Rogers: Well, it certainly has created an international row, what I would argue is very poor inaccurate report.
Having just heard Alexander admit we collect intelligence on people using European networks and share it with Europe, I'm not sure why people took this last comment, which was not read from his prepared statement, as more truthful than the one he earlier read off something in front of him or his responses to Rogers, but that is what happened.
A superb info op, I Cons! We Americans are finally getting propaganda worth the money we're paying for it.
One more comment about this. Given the tactics surrounding this info op, I'm not surprised it worked as well as it did.
But there is a reason it shouldn't have. The story being told about Boundless Informant would suggest Boundless Informant consists primarily of intelligence collected by particular close allies off their shores having to do with NATO military operations. But we've already seen Boundless Informant in regards to the US, Brazil, and India, countries in which that narrative wouldn't make any sense.
Apparently, however, Rogers and Alexander managed such a superb series of shiny objects that no one remembered we've been hearing about Boundless Informant for months.
Update: One other detail to keep in mind about Alexander's prevarications. "We" collect most of this, per undenied reports elsewhere, via Tempora, cables off the British coast, which GCHQ shares with us. Thus, saying "The US, NSA" doesn't collect this may well be correct. But if GCHQ does, it's in our pocket with no limits anyway. And, too, it would make it easy to say the "Europeans" collect this. You know? The ones that are members of Five Eyes.
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When sharing intelligence with your allies, "you should always say Thank You or at least say Please!"
Snoopdido says:
It's like watching a county fair magician make the rabbit disappear. Does that make these reporting national security journalists "rubes"?
Like you, I'll give them a smidgen of cover for their deadline rush, but also like you I consumed the very same news pieces and wondered how it was that I saw and heard something very different than what their headlines and pieces describe.
For the record, HPSCI Chair Rogers is far slicker than SSCI Chair Feinstein.
@Snoopdido: I'm immune. Because on the same plane trip where he helped me put my (very large and heavy carry on) into the overhead, he spent the rest of the flight reading a folder of "Articles on Islamists," which convinced me early he's just a puppet too.
orionATL says:
i would not congratulate them for lying effectively; they did not. only the busy, not very bright press are fooled, and only temporarily.
nor would i worry too much about whether there might be some aspect i had not understood that would change the "correct" interpretation of events in the direction alexander/ford suggest. they are both trained, and i do mean "trained" liars.
the trajectory of this mammoth spying folly which alexander birthed in iraq is clear – anything, everything, all the time, everywhere.
that alexander would claim reports from other than his minions, e.g., greenwald, are false should be received with guffaws of derisive laughter.
there really can be no doubt that collecting ALL was his objective, given what has been revealed so far.
i have to say that this conjunction of congressional and presidential/doj support for behavior that is profoundly at odds with american political values, the american constitution, and american law (prior to 2002),
is the most serious deliberate breech of the american political contract between its citizens and its government that i have witnessed in my lifetime.
i simply cannot explain, other than by means of
– authoritarian leaders or
– blackmail of american political leaders
the failure of these leaders – obama,feinstein, ford, and ruppersberger – to challenge the cancer that is the nsa (and the doj and the fbi) together with the grotesquely named "patriot" act is a dertogation of responsibility and a mystery awaiting history.
so now can we finally agree that the nsa is, and has been, conducting a p.r. campaign –
just like a tobacco company, or any sleezy politician, evangelical minister gone "astray", or big time general caught with his hand in the, um, pie pan?
VAGreen says:
So let me get this straight. Gathering metadata on every phone call made in the US is perfectly good and legal. It is absolutely vital to our national security. And we spy on the leaders of allied countries. But any suggestion that we're collecting phone metadata on citizens of allied countries is ridiculous. But also, we refuse to stop spying on allied countries:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/administration-official-rebuts-feinstein-claim-that-white-ho
@Snoopdido: I'm not giving WSJ and Gorman too much latitude. Her two pieces yesterday on "Obama didn't know" and "Senate review" were fairly credulous and steno like too. She is on a roll.
This may be a tactical gain that yields a strategic loss. The goal of the NSA is clearly to have their power remain that includes the power to spy overseas. When confronted with Europeans angry at the USA for their actions the NSA chose to cast blame on the same European politicians and spy agencies that they depend upon to enable their dragnet.
In the short term this allows him to deflect some of the anger over the actions and is a local PR gain.
In the long-term it: (1) Puts european spooks in the crosshairs of their smaller, affluent, angry over the economy, and politically motivated populations; (2) It tells said European spooks that the NSA will hang them out to dry; (3) It also tells them and the European politicans who thought they were "partners" with the NSA that they are, in fact just dupes; and (4) It puts more pressure on folks like Hollande and Merkel to take real steps to shut this down or at least to show that they can make progress against it. Before they could say that we were naughty but that they couldn't do a lot. Now the NSA has highlighted their own governments' cooperation, cooperation that they do have power over.
If you're tired of being hung out to dry, hanging your other friends out to dry won't help.
dd you notice the whiney, "i'll sacrifice myself for my country" air in patriot keith's commentary? that's p.r. talking.
"keith frietchie", a mawkish pom
by j. greenleaf whittier
"fire if you must
this addled head,
but spare your country's security
personally, i'll promise it can never be said,
the nsa failed to spy on one who wasn't dead. "
thatvisionthing says:
See, the shiny object I've been hoping would turn up again was the header seal on the right side of an "Exploiting TOR" slide a ways back in the erroneousingenuity/egotisticalgoat days. I took a screenshot because I was gaping. (Did I have a slide set from the Onion?) Seal said "Data Network Techologies * Nothing But Net * " Who are those guys? Logo is net with pinpoint lit-up nation-states, or maybe those are just continents, well actually you could call it the globe.
Sadly, I see no seals on Boundless Informant pages. Though this looks pretty funny: "The team uses Flawmill to accept user requests for additional functionality…" Flawmill. Who names these things? Who named Curveball? I think they're telling us something. Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
greenbird says:
now Putin is the squirrel.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/29/russia-denies-spying-g20-putin-spokesman
Bill Michtom says:
@orionATL: "profoundly at odds with american political values, the american constitution, and american law (prior to 2002)."
Completely in concert with US politics in the almost 60 years I've been following them.
Greg Bean (@GregLBean) says:
In listening to Alexander's opening comments I was puzzled by his use of the term 'selectors'. Around min 21:18 here: http://www.c-span.org/Events/Intel-Officials-Discuss-Proposed-Changes-to-NSA-Spying-Programs/10737442346/
He talks about billions of records and then says out of all that they only used 288 selectors implying that there were only 288 records out of the billions collected that were actually queried.
As I understand it, a selector is an item that can be used as a search string; it is an index or key. So, 288 selectors would indicate that the billions of records are indexed by 288 unique fields, a person's name might be one selector, a location another selector, a phrase a 3rd selector and so on for every possible identifier that might uniquely identify an individual including height, weight, color, hair color, sex, father's name, birth date, or an activity like talked-to, or an interest like munitions, etc, etc. And each of these selectors could have many many values, for example, talked-to could include a list of everyone I spoke with in the last month.
A query would then likely make use of a number of these selectors, plugging in one or more values for each, and would then run against the billion+ record database to find matches.
If this is the case then plugging in 'SMITH' into the name selector would return millions of records from this billion record haystack.
In short, having 288 selectors in no way gives an indication of the volume of results that would be returned from the billions of records and so 288 selectors is not related in the fashion, to billions of records, that Alexander seems to be implying.
I don't know if he is lying or really does not understand the difference between a selector (index), a selector value (ex. SMITH) and records (the billions in the haystack) that might contain that selector value, or is hoping the committee doesn't understand the difference and playing them for idiots.
The likely answer is he's a lying dolt who doesn't understand and thinks the committee members are equally as stupid.
There is another worrying statement in Alexander's opening that I find indicative of a really sick mind. At the 23:30 mark when talking about mass casualties as says as Marcy noted, that none have happened since 9/11, he then goes on to say, "not by luck, they didn't stop hating us, they didn't say they are just going to forgive this, they continue to try".
Someone should ask him who he thinks "hates us" and why and also what exactly he is referring to when he says "forgive this".
As I said last week, this fellow is one very sick man. See here: https://www.emptywheel.net/2013/10/23/under-keith-alexanders-guard-america-can-be-plundered-like-a-colony/#comment-646539
@VAGreen: Right. And the scale of our metadata collection on other countries is miniscule compared to what Boundless Informant says we do in Europe. We collect 20 times what we do in a month every day here.
@greenbird: I actually think Russia might be telling the truth. There were some, um, rather well-prepared comments from the Brits on this, and it would be easy peasy to put a thumb drive into a Swag Bag unnoticed. Not saying the Brits did it, but they sure seemed to know/be prepared for it.
Peterr says:
Marcy is the master of Interjections like Hey!, Ouch!, Yeah!, Well! and Oh!
From Alexander, Clapper, & Co, she draws cries of "Aw!" and "Rats" and "Eeek!" and "Darn!"
From me, however, I can't help but add "Hooray!" and "Wow!"
Also Hallelujah!
As Brad DeLong might say, why can't we have a better press corps?
scribe says:
@Peterr: Because their kids need braces.
GKJames says:
The circus is in town.
First, the denial: "this is not information that we collected on European citizens."
Then the non sequitur contradicting the denial: "It represents information that we and our NATO allies have collected in defense of our countries and in support of military operations."
(And "a story about French citizens being spied on by a particular slide"???)
@Greg Bean (@GregLBean): I think they are using "selectors" as a stand-in for "targets". As you say he is trying to imply that the "amount of surveillance" is small because they only search for a few things. This is in contrast with the rest of the world who see the amount as large because of the total volume collected.
gsgs says:
but it looks to me that Spain,France didn't check this very well
before they complained and should comment now.
The longer this doesn't happen, the longer I would tend
to assume Alexander is correct, despite the unlucky wording.
Why should he be incorrect, when he knows that this can be
easily checked
Bob Swern says:
NEWSFLASH: General Alexander Almost Tells The Truth About U.S. Call Content Surveillance!!!
And, we've known this since 2001-2004 (see below, also refer to Bill Binney, Russ Tice, Mark Klein, Ed Snowden, James Risen, Glenn Greenwald, etc., etc., etc….and even Tim Clemente [speaking with Erin Burnett at CNN in early May], Declan McCulagh reporting at CNET on June 14th-15th, 2013 [Cong. Nadler's questioning of outgoing FBI Director Mueller] and Ellen Nakashima's article in the WaPo, as recently as September 7th, 2013 or thereabouts).
Meanwhile, there are somewhere between 1,500-2,000 NSA employees (I'm sure they're reclassified as "contractors" for 4th Amendment/legal reasons) at Menwith Hill and Bude, etc…
http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/154/25675.html
How Britain and the US Keep Watch on the World
By Phillip Knightley
Independent (via Global Policy Forum)
From the National Security Agency's imposing headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland, ringed by a double-chain fence topped by barbed wire with strands of electrified wire between them, America "bugs" the world. Nothing politically or militarily significant, whether mentioned in a telephone call, in a conversation in the office of the secretary general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, or in a company fax or e-mail, escapes its attention.
Its computers – measured in acres occupied by them rather than simple figures – "vacuum the entire electromagnetic spectrum", homing in on "key words" which may suggest something of interest to NSA customers is being conveyed. The NSA costs at least $3.5bn (£1.9bn) a year to run. It employs at least 20,000 officers (not counting the 100,000 servicemen and civilians around the world over whom it has control). Its shredders process 40 tons of paper a day.
Its junior partner is Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the eavesdropping organisation for which Katharine Gun worked. Like NSA, GCHQ is a highly secret operation. Until 1983, when one of its officers, Geoffrey Prime, was charged with spying for the Russians, the Government had refused to reveal what GCHQ's real role was, no doubt because its operations in peacetime were without a legal basis. Its security is maintained by massive and deliberately intimidating security. Newspapers have been discouraged from mentioning it; a book by a former GCHQ officer, Jock Kane, was seized by Special Branch police officers and a still photograph of its headquarters was banned by the Independent Broadcasting Authority, leaving a blank screen during a World in Action programme. As with NSA, the size of GCHQ's staff at Cheltenham, about 6,500, gives no real indication of its strength. It has monitoring stations in Cyprus, West Germany, and Australia and smaller ones elsewhere. Much of its overseas work is done by service personnel. Its budget is thought to be more than £300m a year. A large part of this is funded by the United States in return for the right to run NSA listening stations in Britain – Chicksands, Bedfordshire; Edzell, Scotland; Mentworth Hill, Harrogate; Brawdy, Wales – and on British territory around the world.
The collaboration between the two agencies offers many advantages to both. Not only does it make monitoring the globe easier, it solves tricky legal problems and is the basis of the Prime Minister's statement yesterday that all Britain's bugging is lawful. The two agencies simply swap each other's dirty work. GCHQ eavesdrops on calls made by American citizens and the NSA monitors calls made by British citizens, thus allowing each government plausibly to deny it has tapped its own citizens' calls, as they do. The NSA station at Menwith Hill intercepts all international telephone calls made from Britain and GCHQ has a list of American citizens whose phone conversations interest the NSA…
Question: If a shitstorm hits the fan in the woods, will we hear it?
selectors :
I think it's possible to anonymize/encrypt the data and then only
the results of the selectors search are decrypted
or extracted for subsequent search – but still encrypted
it would make sense that USA and France merge their data for common
search while the detailed records are still not available to the
other site ?!
@gsgs: France now just called
it "unlikely" but didn't elaborate
@Bob Swern: Hi Bob! Is Menworth Hill = Menwith Hill? I thought it was funny, I saw on Craig Murray's site that they hold an annual "Independence from America" protest there every 4th of July. And now that I've searched on it, my typing is very very slow. C h e e r i o !
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22independence+from+america%22+site%3A+craigmurray.org.uk
@thatvisionthing: Went to your link, and it looks like you spelled it properly, so my assumption is it's the same place (crawling with NSA people, heh…heh…). So much for "Independence from America."
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