Summary
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 yea...
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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Larry the Cable Guy gives back
Media personality Larry The Cable Guy made a whopping donation to the Florida Freeze 12-Under baseball travel team helping them represent Central Florida at the Baseball Hall of Fame youth tournament at Cooperstown, N.Y. It started as a request for a...Tags: Therapies, Awards and Prizes, Water Slalom Skiing, Clubs and Associations, University of Florida
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Spying worried groups
Sun reporterMax Obuszewski is a graying veteran of war protests. In his life, he estimated yesterday, he's been arrested about 70 times for struggling to make a point about critical issues, including the Vietnam War, homelessness in Baltimore and the war in Iraq. He...Tags: Law Enforcement, Demonstration, Death Penalty, Wars and Interventions, Defense
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State police spying decried
Sun reportersA day after the American Civil Liberties Union released documents showing that the Maryland State Police spied on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups, Gov. Martin O'Malley vowed Friday not to allow state law enforcement agencies to monitor...Tags: Upper House, Death Penalty, Martin O'Malley, Drug Trafficking, Parliament
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Housecleaning time for the CIA
U.S. presidents have been reluctant to reform the Central Intelligence Agency. Often, their first decision, naming a CIA director, guarantees there will be no meaningful change. Presidents from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush named CIA directors who...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, National Government, Defense, George Bush, Heads of State
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Spying uncovered
Sun ReporterUndercover Maryland State Police officers repeatedly spied on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups in recent years and entered the names of some in a law-enforcement database of people thought to be terrorists or drug traffickers, newly...Tags: NBC, Local Elections, Richard Nixon, Death Penalty, Civil Rights
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'The Dark Side' by Jane Mayer
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 15, 2008 "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." Justice Louis Brandeis wrote those lines 80 years ago, but as Jane Mayer's brilliantly reported and deeply...Tags: Constitutional Issues, Human Rights, Book, Treaties, Bill Clinton
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Awards
Margot Knight, president and chief executive officer of United Arts in Central Florida, Peter Stark, director of education at the Orlando Ballet School, and Patty DeYoung, executive administrator of Darden Restaurant Foundation, are the recipients of...Tags: Florida Hospital, Corporate Officers, Winter Springs, Cancer, Rollins College
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Mr. Obama's move to middle is smart politics
Until recently, one of the biggest raps against Sen. Barack Obama from conservatives was his delicate dance around any issue that might upset his core constituents. How can he claim a break from "politics as usual," they said, if he wasn't willing to...Tags: NBC, Gun Control, Richard Nixon, Personal Weapon Control, George Bush
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Domestic spying quietly goes on
Sun reporterWith Congress on the verge of outlining new parameters for National Security Agency eavesdropping between suspicious foreigners and Americans, lawmakers are leaving largely untouched a host of government programs that critics say involves far more...Tags: Book, Civil Rights, Osama bin Laden, Mining, Government
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