Word: nsa
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...American lawyer who had sued the government for secretly tapping his phone for years. The decision raises serious questions about government adherence to Fourth Amendment restrictions on unreasonable search and seizure. More importantly, it highlights long-standing questions about the nature and actions of the National Security Agency (NSA...
...branch of the Department of Defense, the NSA has the primary task of monitoring the communications of foreign governments and protecting the electronic communications of the United States. Thousands of listening posts worldwide and a vast computer complex in Maryland allow the NSA to tap into and record all electronic messages entering or leaving the country. A 1975 post-Watergate Senate panel described the NSA setup as a "giant vacuum cleaner." But unlike domestic law-enforcement agencies, which must obtain a warrant from a Federal Judge before tapping phone messages, the NSA gets warrants from a special secret panel...
There are several problems with the NSA's structure. By shrouding the warrant process in secrecy, the government restricts the public from finding out or reviewing when and why wiretapping is authorized. The use of secret judges also distorts the warrant-requirement limits placed on domestic law-enforcement agencies. In the Jabara case, for example, the NSA supplied tapped information to the FBI, 17 domestic agencies and three foreign governments. The FBI, which never formally charged the lawyer with any crime, could not have obtained a warrant...
Among the people Inman monitored during his stints as Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and an Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were scientists who research he insisted has bolstered the Soviet military...
When he headed the NSA, Inman instituted a set of voluntary restrictions on the publication of cryptology methods, including codemaking and breaking. Inman has said that scientists should prefer voluntary guidelines to one Congress might mandate...