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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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: Armed Forces, Laws, Religious Conflicts, Islam, Central Intelligence Agency
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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: Frank Langella, NASA, Jean-Paul Sartre, Family, Space Programs
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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: Armed Forces, Fort Meade, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Colleges and Universities, National Security
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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: NASA, Central Intelligence Agency, Google Inc., Cameron Diaz, Frank Langella
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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: Laws, Democratic Party, Corruption, National Security, Defense
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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: Hampton Roads, James Monroe, Field Hockey, Volleyball
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Latest chapters stick to protracted slots story line
Let me see if I have this right: We have a county that is rebuffing a deep-pocketed, known-quantity developer who wants to open a slots parlor at one of its malls, and we have a city basically rolling out the red carpet and handing the keys to its...Tags: Cecil County, Bankruptcy, Casino and Gambling, Gaming and Lotteries, National Security
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Have any Patriot Act horror stories come true?
Today's topic: Where are the demonstrated examples of abuses of liberties because of the Patriot Act? Are there any provisions of the law that civil libertarians would find acceptable? Julian Sanchez and Jena Baker McNeill continue their debate on the...Tags: Laws, Criminals, American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Department of Justice, National Security
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NSA To Build Secretive Data Center in Utah
Staff WriterAn intelligence official says the National Security Agency will build a secretive electronic data center at a National Guard camp in Utah. The deputy director for the Office of National Intelligence for Collection, Glenn Gaffney, says the data center will...Tags: Defense, National Security
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Francesca Martino: NASA intern's astronaut dreams end too soon
Sentinel Staff WriterWhen Francesca Martino was in first grade, she picked out a book titled I Want to be an Astronaut at her school's book fair. "She read that book until it got dog-eared and raggedy," said her father, Richard Martino of Largo. Then she misplaced it....Tags: NASA, Athletics, Track and Field, Engineering, Vehicles, Motorcycling
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