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...constantly dropping as technology becomes more sophisticated, and the sea of signals in the air gets incomprehensibly dense. Reading like a spy novel itself, revealing information at a guarded pace to maximize the reader’s paranoia, Keefe’s book explains how the National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA’s reliance on signals intelligence is the result of the “diminished American tolerance for military casualties.” The government is much more willing to gather intelligence and fight wars “by remote control...
National Security Agency (NSA). Everyone from the President to the customs cops stamping passports at LAX agrees this is a necessity...
...second attempt, now comatose, was the National Intelligence Reform Act--the brisk congressional response to last summer's findings of the 9/11 commission. The bill would have created a National Intelligence director to ride herd over the CIA, NSA, parts of the FBI and assorted other intel agencies. The czar would have had budgetary authority and also the power to "design" and "implement" the unified computer network. But two House Republican committee chairmen decided to croak the bill on the weekend before Thanksgiving--in large part because the reform was opposed by the Pentagon, which controls 80% of the intelligence...
...commission. The FBI needs to know what the CIA knows about, say, the mythical terrorist Mahmoud Shimon O'Hara, and vice versa-and both agencies need to be alerted immediately if O'Hara tries to enter the country or has a phone conversation overheard by the National Security Agency (NSA). Everyone from the President to the customs cops stamping passports at LAX agrees this is a necessity...
...second attempt, now comatose, was the National Intelligence Reform Act-the brisk congressional response to last summer's findings of the 9/11 commission. The bill would have created a National Intelligence director to ride herd over the CIA, NSA, parts of the FBI and assorted other intel agencies. The czar would have had budgetary authority and also the power to "design" and "implement" the unified computer network. But two House Republican committee chairmen decided to croak the bill on the weekend before Thanksgiving-in large part because the reform was opposed by the Pentagon, which controls 80% of the intelligence...