{"id":2495,"date":"2015-04-27T09:04:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2015-04-27T09:04:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:04:59","slug":"the-pentagons-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/2015\/04\/27\/the-pentagons-engineers","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon&#8217;s Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth, for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/27\/us\/white-house-takes-cybersecurity-pitch-to-silicon-valley.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama\u2019s newly installed defense secretary, Ashton B. Carter, toured Silicon Valley last week to announce a new military strategy for computer conflict, starting the latest Pentagon effort to invest in promising start-ups and to meet with engineers whose talent he declared the Pentagon desperately needed in fending off the nation\u2019s adversaries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I <em>do<\/em> believe that the Pentagon &#8220;desperately&#8221; needs talented engineers, I find it difficult to believe anything else out of the Pentagon&#8217;s mouth. I wonder why&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He acknowledged that the documents leaked by Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor, \u201cshowed there was a difference in view between what we were doing and what people perceived us as doing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, there it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth, for the New York Times: President Obama\u2019s newly installed defense secretary, Ashton B. Carter, toured Silicon Valley last week to announce a new military strategy for computer conflict, starting the latest Pentagon effort to invest in promising start-ups and to meet with engineers whose talent he declared the Pentagon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Pentagon's Engineers","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[111,642,75],"tags":[413,730,728,729,627,731,722,602],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p123kB-Ef","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}