Washington BACK in 2006, before the Obama administration made leak prosecutions routine, a panel of three federal appeals court judges in New York struggled to decide whether a prosecutor should be allowed to see the phone records of two New York Times reporters, Judith Miller and Philip Shenon, in an effort to determine their sources for articles...
WASHINGTON -- Speaking hours after the world learned that a C.I.A. drone strike had killed Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, President Obama could still not say the words ''drone'' or ''C.I.A.'' That's classified. Instead, in an appearance at a Virginia military base just before midday Friday, the president said that Mr. Awlaki, the American cleric who had...
A former top official in charge of ensuring that real secrets are kept secret has delivered a stunning repudiation of the Obama administration's decision to use the Espionage Act against a whistle-blower attempting to expose government waste and abuse. J. William Leonard, who directed the Information Security Oversight Office during the George W....
NSA (National Security Agency / Central Security Service NSA/CSS) er en af USA's sikkerhedstjenester (efterretningstjenester). NSA har især til opgave at aflytte, indsamle og analysere alle former for kommunikation.
NSA er underlagt forsvarsdepartementet. Etatens budget er hemmeligstemplet, men det antages at være betragtelig større end CIAs. NSA er verdens største arbejdsgiver for matematikere. Hovedkvarteret ligger på militærbasen Fort George G. Meade i Maryland udenfor Washington D.C.
NSA samarbejder med øvrige NATO-landes efterretningstjenester. Som led i NSA's verdensomspændende net af elektronisk spionageanlæg, er der bygget lytte- og pejlestationer også i Norge og Danmark – bl.a. på Bornholm.
NSA er specielt kendt for efterretningsnetværket Echelon.