Search Top Secret America’s Database of Private Spooks
Figuring out exactly who’s cashing in on the post-9/11 boom in secret programs just got a whole lot easier. U.S. spy agencies, the State Department and the White House had a collective panic attack...
View ArticleDoc of the Day: NSA, DHS Trade Players for Net Defense
The military keeps saying that it only wants to defend its own networks — not yours, civilian. Only if the Department of Homeland Security, which safeguards the civilian internet, comes calling will...
View ArticleSo Much for Spy Oversight: The Danger Room Guide to The Next Congress (Part...
It can be easy to forget that “oversight” has two meanings. But longtime spy-watchers never do. “It could mean ‘oversee,’” reminds John Pike, the intel-and-military analyst who runs GlobalSecurity.org,...
View ArticleNSA’s Newest Recruiters: Cartoon-Leopard Twins
Dudes and dudettes: You know what’s totally radical? Reading your neighbors’ e-mail! So don’t you wanna be a junior National Security Agency deputy? If so, the surveillance and cryptology crew at NSA...
View ArticleNSA’s Home Base May Have Crappiest Website Ever
Through the gates of Fort George Meade pass the most powerful technical minds that the government employs. But Fort Meade’s website contains pixelized, faux-shaded green fonts and a two-column...
View ArticleThe Next Secretary of Defense Is Kind of a N00b
No one doubts that CIA Director Leon Panetta is qualified to become secretary of defense. Not the senators who said they couldn’t wait to vote for his confirmation, and probably not Osama bin Laden,...
View ArticleNSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You
The surveillance experts at the National Security Agency won't tell two powerful United States Senators how many Americans have had their communications picked up by the agency as part of its sweeping...
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