"We built the largest coordination machine in history. We could see every signal. What we could not do was understand what it meant. Collection without sense-making is not intelligence. It is noise at industrial scale."
Served as a senior technical architect at NSA during the era of bulk collection programs. Designed infrastructure that coordinated signals intercepts across global networks at a scale no civilian system had attempted. Retired with a classified record and an unclassified warning: mass coordination of data without interpretive context produces surveillance, not intelligence.