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More Doors That Whoosh Please

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Boys with toys…

On Aug. 1, 2005, Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander reported for duty as the 16th director of the [NSA] … Alexander brought many of his future allies down to Fort Belvoir for a tour of his base of operations, a facility known as the Information Dominance Center. It had been designed by a Hollywood set designer to mimic the bridge of the starship Enterprise from Star Trek, complete with chrome panels, computer stations, a huge TV monitor on the forward wall, and doors that made a “whoosh” sound when they slid open and closed. Lawmakers and other important officials took turns sitting in a leather “captain’s chair” in the center of the room and watched as Alexander, a lover of science-fiction movies, showed off his data tools on the big screen. “Everybody wanted to sit in the chair at least once to pretend he was Jean-Luc Picard”.

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