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In June 2019, Susan Gordon stood on a stage at the Washington Convention Center. Behind her loomed three giant letters, \u201cAWS,\u201d the abbreviation for Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing division of the giant Internet retailer. After three decades at the Central Intelligence Agency, Gordon had risen to one of the top jobs in the cloak-and-dagger world: principal deputy director of national intelligence. From that perch she publicly extolled the virtues of Amazon Web Services and the cloud services the tech giant provides the CIA.<\/p>\n

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U.S. intelligence official Susan Gordon, top photo, extolling Amazon Web Services in 2019 and, just above, at a “FedTalks” in 2015 with AWS Vice President Bill Vass. He spoke glowingly of the government-AWS partnership. She agreed: “… If you believe in the engine of a great society, you\u2019ve just described it.\u201d<\/div>\n
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She told the crowd that the intelligence community\u2019s 2013 decision to sign a multi-year, $600 million contract with AWS for cloud computing \u201cwill stand as one of those that caused the greatest leap forward. \u2026 The investment we made so many years ago in order to be able to try and harness the power of the cloud with a partner who wanted to learn and grow with us has left us not only ready for today but positioned for tomorrow.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The agreement was also a \u201creal game-changer,\u201d said Andr\u00e9 Pienaar, founder and CEO of a tech firm called C5 Capital, whose business includes reselling AWS services. \u201cWhen the CIA said they were going adopt the AWS cloud platform,\u201d Pienaar said at another AWS event. \u201cPeople said if the U.S. intelligence community has the confidence to feel secure on the AWS cloud, why can\u2019t we?\u201d<\/p>\n

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60 Years After Eisenhower’s Warning, Distinct Signs of a ‘Digital-Intelligence Complex’ In June 2019, Susan Gordon stood on a stage at the Washington Convention Center. Behind her loomed three giant letters, \u201cAWS,\u201d the abbreviation for Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing division of the giant Internet retailer. After three decades at the Central Intelligence Agency, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[977,30978,9336,4102,135,12165,30979,5570,15620,25525,30977,9252,827,865],"class_list":["post-56902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-amazon","tag-aws","tag-big-tech","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-cia","tag-dwight-d-eisenhower","tag-eric-felten","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-mic","tag-military-industrial-complex-2","tag-real-clear-investingations","tag-silicon-valley","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56903,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56902\/revisions\/56903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}