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San Francisco Chronicle
April 19, 2018
There were several low points: the Iran-Contra scandal of the Reagan administration, followed by NSA violations of the law (including the collection of social media metadata and the use of warrantless wiretaps against U.S. citizens), and the CIA's adoption of a torture program after the 9/11 attacks. Still, theÃâà...
The Federalist
March 30, 2018
Over the following decades, the U.S. surveillance state continued to expand and reorganize, resulting in the founding of the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1952. This coincided with an unprecedented expansion in the scope of government surveillance of the daily lives and activities of AmericanÃâà...
NPR
March 13, 2018
MARTIN: You were the director of the National Security Agency, also, as we noted, the director of the CIA. And in those jobs, you had to work with the secretary of state. So what do you make of Mike Pompeo now top to move over to lead that agency in this moment? HAYDEN: So as a citizen - all right?
NPR
February 27, 2018
But National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command chief Adm. Michael Rogers told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday there is only so much he can do. That is because, according to Rogers, President Trump has not ordered him to go after the Russian attacks at their origin. Sen.
NPR
November 14, 2017
David Greene talks to Matthew Olsen, former head of the National Counter Terrorism Center, for an assessment after hackers at the National Security Agency were hacked. ... This all began last year, and it looks like The Shadow Brokers have tried to sell some of the NSA's cyberweapons. Matthew OlsenÃâà...
NPR
October 6, 2017
Let's turn now to news of yet another major security breach at the National Security Agency. This one involves Russia - Russian government hackers, to be precise, who targeted the home computer of an NSA contractor and reportedly stole highly classified material off it. The Wall Street Journal broke theÃâà...
NPR
October 5, 2017
Russian hackers stole top secret cybertools from a National Security Agency contractor in yet another embarrassing compromise for U.S. spy agencies, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The NSA contractor is believed to have taken highly sensitive official software home to a personal computer inÃâà...
NPR
June 29, 2017
Last August, hacking tools were stolen from the National Security Agency. Now, those tools are being used in a number of cyber attacks around the world, and there's mounting pressure on the NSA to do something. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Nicole Perlroth, who has been covering this for The NewÃâà...
NPR
June 6, 2017
That was before Monday's leak of a top secret National Security Agency report about a Russian election cyberattack. ... The NSA report, posted by The Intercept, documents a scheme by Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, to compromise the systems of a Florida elections services companyÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
March 29, 2017
Historical Context for Today's Surveillance Debates: The 1945 Legal Memo on What Became Operation Shamrock ... His recent book Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union is a must-read volume for those interested in the history of SIGINT in generalÃâà...
