Highlights
The National Security Agency (NSA) is the United States government's cryptologic organization, responsible for intercepting foreign communications and for protecting U.S. government systems from similar agencies abroad. The spy agency's activities include surveillance, codebreaking, cybersecurity, foreign language analysis and research. The NSA is a key component of the U.S. intelligence community, which is headed by the Director of National Intelligence. NSA provides political and military leaders with intelligence to ensure national defense and advance U.S. interests. It has been described as the world's largest employer of mathematicians and the owner of the largest group of supercomputer...
The National Security Agency (NSA) is the United States government's cryptologic organization, responsible for intercepting foreign communications and for protecting U.S. government systems from similar agencies abroad. The spy agency's activities include surveillance, codebreaking, cybersecurity, foreign language analysis and research. The NSA is a key component of the U.S. intelligence community, which is headed by the Director of National Intelligence. NSA provides political and military leaders with intelligence to ensure national defense and advance U.S. interests. It has been described as the world's largest employer of mathematicians and the owner of the largest group of supercomputers. For many years the U.S. government did not even acknowledge its existence. It was often said, half-jokingly, that "NSA" stood for "No Such Agency," and also, as "Never Say Anything." Analysts, engineers, physicists, mathematicians, linguists, computer scientists and researchers are among the professionals that comprise its workforce. The NSA's headquarters occupy 350 acres at Fort George G. Meade in Anne Arundel County.
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Doris M. Everett, secretary and WAVE
Doris M. Everett, a retired secretary who served as a Navy WAVE during World War II and the Korean War, died Nov. 12 of breast cancer at her Overlea home. She was 86. Doris Miles was born in Baltimore and raised in the Herring Run neighborhood. After...Tags: National Security, Overlea, Armed Forces, Breast Cancer, Death and Dying
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Bayside freshman QB Deion Stitt shows flashes for the future, but interceptions doom Marlins
Aaron Evans wasn't the only quarterback to have an up-and-down night in Friday's Division 6 Eastern Region semifinal at Virginia Beach Sportsplex. After the dust settled on Woodside's thrilling win, freshman Bayside QB Deion Stitt actually posted...Tags: Florida Marlins, Shaquille O'Neal
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Wednesday's prep roundup: Lowenhaupt, Montini gain top Bay Rivers volleyball honors
Daily PressIn girls volleyball, Lafayette senior Bailey Lowenhaupt was named the Bay Rivers District player of the year, and Grafton's Dena Montini was named coach of the year after leading the Clippers to a so-far unbeaten season. Lowenhaupt, Jamestown's Krista...Tags: Volleyball, Hampton Roads, Morgan Freeman, Satellite and Cable Service
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Louis D. Blom, NSA analyst
Louis D. Blom, a retired National Security Agency analyst and a World War II veteran, died of complications from dementia Oct. 28 at the Charlestown retirement community. He was 84.
Mr. Blom, the son of a steelworker and a librarian, was born in Corona,...Tags: Fort Meade, National Security, Armed Forces, Louisiana State University, Clarksville
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Fort Hood suspect was on U.S. radar
The FBI and the military investigated contacts over the last year between an Army psychiatrist accused in the deadly Ft. Hood rampage and a Yemen-based militant cleric linked to some of the Sept. 11 hijackers, but concluded the shooting suspect did not...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, U.S. Department of Justice, FBI, Hospitals and Clinics, Armed Forces
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Internal Congressional Ethics Probe Revealed
Tribune Washington BureauNearly half the members of the powerful House subcommittee that oversees more than $600 billion in Pentagon spending have been targeted by ethics investigators who are probing the conduct of a once-influential Washington lobbying firm, according to a...Tags: National Government, Values, FBI, Government, Laws
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Evans is 11-for-11 as Woodside rolls
Aaron Evans completed all 11 of his passes for 280 yards and four touchdowns as Woodside continued on its road to a high seed in the Eastern Region Division 6 playoffs, winning 56-14 Friday at winless Gloucester. Kedric Solomon had five catches for 119...Tags: Hampton Roads
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Final-minute TD propels Trinity Episcopal past Nansemond-Suffolk
Daily PressWill White threw five touchdown passes, including the 60-yard winner to Andy Sarlo, with 47 seconds remaining to lift Trinity Episcopal past visiting Nansemond-Suffolk Academy 35-28 Friday in Richmond. White, who went 20-for-27 for 270 yards, threw three... -
Tuesday's prep roundup: Menchville boys spike Warwick's upset bid in PD volleyball semifinal
Daily PressBrendan Avent had 16 kills and 15 digs for top-seeded Menchville, which came back from a two-game deficit to post a 21-25, 23-25, 25-15, 25-9, 15-9 semifinal victory Tuesday over Warwick in the Peninsula District boys volleyball semifinals at Woodside...Tags: Volleyball, James Monroe, Hampton Roads, Field Hockey
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The Box occasionally entertains
VarietyPushing a few of the right buttons and plenty of the wrong ones, The Box represents a dicey mainstream effort by Richard Kelly (Southland Tales). Expanding a Richard Matheson story into a '70s-set thriller in which a couple is besieged by space-age...Tags: Jean-Paul Sartre, Stranger Than Fiction, Unexplained Phenomena, Cameron Diaz, Frank Langella
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Richard Kelly hopes to push moviegoers' buttons with 'The Box'
Filmmaker Richard Kelly's initial encounter with Richard Matheson's fiendish little short story "Button, Button" about a cash-strapped couple offered a million dollars to push a button on a box that will instantly cause someone they don't know to drop...Tags: FBI, Frank Langella, Television Industry, Central Intelligence Agency, Google Inc.
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Author appearance
M. E. Harrigan will discuss and sign "9800 Savage Road: A Novel of the National Security Agency" at 6 p.m. Oct. 22 at Barnes & Noble, 4300 Montgomery Road, Long Gate Shopping Center. Information: 410-203-9001.Tags: National Security, Defense
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