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Two guys who should have a security debate
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:54:09 -0400
http://thehill.com/business--lobby/twelve-years-after-football-ellison-still -tackling-defense-2005-02-15.html Twelve years after football, Ellison still tackling defense More than a decade after claiming his third Super Bowl ring, former San Francisco 49er Riki Ellison is still making a career in defense. Ellison has emerged as a seemingly unlikely advocate for high-tech missile defense systems, a politically charged issue devoured by aerospace engineers and foreign-policy wonks the world over. It's not something most former athletes get caught up in. But missile defense is not merely a post-football hobby for the retired linebacker. He has been at it for more than 20 years, studying national security at the University of Southern California and using the football off-season to work as a missile defense policy consultant for Lockheed Martin. Today, Ellison, 44, is the president of the National Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, an organization he founded out of his Crystal City, Va., apartment in 2002. Over the past three years, he has expanded the organization to 4,200 members and receives nearly $500,000 a year in private donations. _____ http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2005/10/23/going_postol/ Going Postol The office is cluttered even by the standards of office clutter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which fall somewhere between a toddler's playpen and post-Agamemnon Troy. Balding and bearded and dressed in shorts and a knit shirt, Theodore Postol sits behind a desk piled high with stacks of memos, government reports, and thick binders. Somewhere within these mountains of paper hides the quarry he's been pursuing for more than 20 years. "The real world," says Postol, a professor of science, technology, and national security policy, "is often choosing between evils." For 15 years now, Postol has been the leading scientific critic of missile defense, which endeavors to shoot an enemy's long-range missiles out of the sky. It is Postol's opinion that the idea did not work when Ronald Reagan proposed it in 1983, does not work now, and will not work in the conceivable future, and he neither minces words nor suffers fools gladly. In the latter category, he has come to include not only the advocates of missile defense but also the highest administrators at MIT, who Postol says have conspired to cover up "fraud" in the testing of missile defense in order to maintain a lucrative relationship with the country's defense establishment.
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