On 9/30/15, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/carly-fiorina-i-supplied-hp-servers-for-nsa... https://www.yahoo.com/politics/carly-fiorina-defends-bush-era-torture-and-sp... http://politics.slashdot.org/story/15/09/29/220239/carly-fiorina-i-supplied-...

According to an article at Motherboard, shortly after 9/11, NSA director Michael Hayden requested extra computing power and Carly Fiorina, then CEO of HP, responded by re-routing truckloads of servers to the agency. Fiorina acknowledged providing the servers to the NSA during an interview with Michael Isikoff in which she defended warrantless surveillance (as well as waterboarding) and framed her collaboration with the NSA in patriotic terms. Fiorina's compliance with Hayden's request for HP servers is but one episode in a long-running and close relationship between the GOP presidential hopeful and U.S. intelligence agencies. $500 billion over ten years by one estimate—and an upgrade of “every leg of the nuclear triad,”

Perhaps the subject should just say "Money (its corrupting power)". Impossible to believe that HP "rerouted" it's servers without any financial gain for the company. Besides highlighting (thanks grarpamp) such abominations of anything resembling human decency/ human rights/ empathy/ fellowship etc ("torture is ok in this situation because..." - oh really), I don't know what else we can do to incentivise "doing the right thing" or disincentivise "doing the wrong thing". The nature of corporations is profit at any cost - and the sacrifice of anything other than profit is the cost. Perhaps more humans will aspire to something beyond the animalistic part of their nature... Zenaan