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...National Security Agency missed a prime opportunity in early 2000 to crack the Sept. 11 plot, according to a forthcoming congressional investigation of the attacks. The report of the House and Senate Intelligence committees, to be released Thursday, will say that the NSA intercepted and analyzed "several communications" between future 9/11 hijacker Khalid al Midhar and an al-Qaeda safe house in the Middle East. But despite the agency's vaunted signals intelligence (SIGINT) technology, which enables it to intercept telephone, radio, cell phone, e-mail and fax messages worldwide, the NSA didn?t realize that the messages, from someone...
While the NSA felt it was acting in the interests of national security, the agency’s scrutiny made the project fruitless for everyone, Widnall said...
...have come under plenty of criticism for their failure to prevent 9/11. Now, it seems, it's the turn of the National Security Agency (NSA). The agency, whose job is to protect U.S. government information and ferret out foreign secrets, is already taking heat for being slow to analyze two cryptic messages it intercepted last Sept. 10, warning that something big was going to happen the next day. Now a scathing classified report issued by the House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the agency is badly mismanaged, congressional sources tell TIME, and that resulted in its failing "to provide tactical...
...intelligence panel's Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, which released an unclassified summary of its report last week, found that the NSA is "unable to identify" how it spends the money it gets from Congress each year "to any level of detail." A number of its projects duplicate one another, the report said. And while the NSA had listened in on "large volumes of phone calls from the part of the world [where] al-Qaeda was located," says Representative Saxby Chambliss, who chairs the terrorism subcommittee, "the problem was, they didn't focus on al-Qaeda," so that those...
...Another problem is that the cash-strapped agency, which spent billions on cold war?era satellites, hired no new employees for "an extended period of time" before Sept. 11. That was a big mistake, the subcommittee believes, because the NSA was already chronically short of computer scientists, engineers and foreign-language experts. The NSA even established incentive programs to entice more employees to take early retirement. What's worse, the agency's overworked linguists and analysts were allowed to continue taking advantage of the early-retirement program - even after Sept...