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, Health Treatments, Physical Fitness, Awards and Prizes, Under Armour Inc.
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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: Armed Conflicts, Executive Branch, Wars and Interventions, Bill Clinton, Government
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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: Fort Meade, Wars and Interventions, Law Enforcement, Police Arrests, Police
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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: Fort Meade, Executive Branch, Drug Trafficking, Martin O'Malley, Crimes
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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: Executive Branch, Government, Ronald Reagan, Police, 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: Elections, Drug Trafficking, Richard Nixon, Justice and Rights, Government
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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: Daytona Beach, Diseases, Seminole County, Orlando, Medical Research
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Barack Obama and his surge to the middle
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 upset...Tags: Interior Policy, Elections, Tim Russert, John McCain, Richard Nixon
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School news
Virginia Rep. J. Randy Forbes (R-Chesapeake) announces that Brittany Bowden, a student at Tidewater Academy in Wakefield, has won the 2008 Congressional Arts competition for Virginia's Fourth Congressional District. That territory includes Chesapeake,...Tags: Isle of Wight (Isle of Wight, Virginia), High Schools, Hampton Roads, Wakefield (Sussex, Virginia), Government
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