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...didn't understand how the place worked. He didn't trust the information it collected from its clandestine sources (humint, as it's called in the business). And he thought the CIA caused more mess than it was worth. As far as McConnell was concerned, the NSA collected all the intelligence the United States needed...
...deputy, Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden. But Negroponte was long rumored to be impatient with the intelligence job, and eager to return to his career as a diplomat. A likely replacement for Negroponte is retired Adm. Mike McConnell, who served as director of the National Security Agency (NSA) from 1992 to 1996 and is currently a senior vice president at the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton...
...week, the blogs were buzzing with a report from a British newspaper claiming that "U.S. security services" had been bugging Diana's hotel room on the night of her death, prompting a highly unusual and direct refutation by the National Security Agency, the agency in charge of such things. "NSA did not target Princess Diana's communications," said a spokesman...
...National Security Administration's controversial warrantless wiretapping program. An Intelligence Committee spokesman tells TIME that the bill was initially pulled because of "national security concerns" they wanted addressed, but once those issues were raised they had no problems with the bill. Don Weber, a spokesman for the NSA, told TIME, "Given the nature of the work we do, we do not discuss actual or alleged operational issues as it can provide those wishing to do harm to the United States insight that could potentially place Americans in danger. However, it is important to note that the NSA takes its legal...
...BUSH'S BILL would allow--but not require--the President to seek approval for the National Security Agency's (NSA's) no-warrant electronic-surveillance program from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court. Bush has said he would seek the court's approval for the program, which he says targets only suspected terrorists calling or e-mailing to or from the U.S. Current law requires the government to get the FISA court's permission for each device--rather than each suspect--to be wiretapped; Bush claims his wartime powers override that law. His bill would send all legal challenges...