• Denmark to summon US envoy over report of Greenland spying directive
    May 7, 2025 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    CIA, NSA and Defense Intelligence Agency all included in ‘collection emphasis message’, report says Denmark has said that it will summon the US ambassador to Copenhagen to respond to reports that US intelligence agencies have been...
  • Trump administration to cut thousands of jobs from CIA and other spy agencies – report
    May 2, 2025 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    CIA to lose 1,200 while NSA among other agencies reported to face downsizing amid president’s drive to shrink federal workforce The White House plans to cut staffing at the Central Intelligence Agency by 1,200 positions while other...
  • Trump tariffs live: Vietnam, India and Israel reportedly in talks over new trade deals – as it happened
    April 4, 2025 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    This liveblog is now closed. For more coverage, click here: Wall Street selloff caps brutal week for markets as Trump tariffs rattle investors People in the US: how have tariffs changed your shopping habits? Trump insists he won’t back...
  • The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot
    February 27, 2025 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    So much of our intelligence and military systems are shared or reliant on the US – if it becomes the enemy, it is already inside the gates All the talk now is of how we might defend ourselves without the US. But almost everyone with a...
  • What is Fisa, and what does it mean for no-warrant spying?
    April 12, 2024 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    After a week of debate, Congress on Friday reauthorized section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Congress spent the past week in a fractious debate over a major government surveillance program that gives US authorities...
  • Man jailed for life for attempted murder of US woman stationed at GCHQ
    October 30, 2023 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    Joshua Bowles, 29, carried out reconnaissance before stabbing victim in Cheltenham in March A former UK intelligence worker has been jailed for life for attempting to murder an American woman who worked for the US government’s National...
  • Ex-NSA employee pleads guilty to trying to sell classified information to Russia
    October 23, 2023 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    Prosecutors say Jareh Dalke, facing up to 22 years in prison, gave security files to FBI agent that he thought was Russian operative A former National Security Agency (NSA) employee from Colorado pleaded guilty Monday to trying to sell...
  • Scandinavian spy drama: the intelligence chief who came under state surveillance
    October 2, 2023 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    How Lars Findsen and Claus Hjort Frederiksen came to be facing trial for allegedly disclosing ‘state secrets’ that had been in public domain for years Lars Findsen was in police custody when he discovered that spies from Denmark’s...
  • ‘No regrets,’ says Edward Snowden, after 10 years in exile
    June 8, 2023 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    But whistleblower says 2013 surveillance ‘child’s play’ compared to technology today Edward Snowden has warned that surveillance technology is so much more advanced and intrusive today it makes that used by US and British intelligence...
  • Snowden, MI5 and me: how the leak of the century came to be published
    June 7, 2023 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    Ten years on, Nick Hopkins recalls how the Guardian defied the intelligence agencies to publish revelations of mass state surveillance The phone call came at an unfortunate moment. It was late May 2013, early evening, during a leaving...
  • What’s really changed 10 years after the Snowden revelations?
    June 7, 2023 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    The whistleblower forced US intelligence agencies to admit extensive spying on their own citizens. Some reforms were enacted but Snowden still faces potentially 30 years in prison It was the day his life changed forever. When Edward...
  • The Last Honest Man: Frank Church and the fight to restrain US power
    May 7, 2023 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    Pulitzer-winner James Risen calls the late Democratic senator an ‘American Cicero’ – and makes a strong case Frank Forrester Church sat in the US Senate for 24 years. His tenure was consequential. A Democrat, he battled for civil rights...
  • Putin grants Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden
    September 26, 2022 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    Former NSA intelligence contractor was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013 Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday granting Russian citizenship to the US whistleblower Edward Snowden. Snowden, 39, a former US...
  • US courts must stop shielding government surveillance programs from accountability | Patrick Toomey and Alex Abdo
    September 26, 2022 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    The NSA’s surveillance of Americans’ internet use raises serious constitutional concerns, but the government claims a lawsuit against the program would compromise ‘state secrets’ Imagine the government has searched your home without a...
  • NSA analyst jailed for life for selling US secrets to Soviets dies aged 80
    September 12, 2022 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    Ronald Pelton, convicted of espionage in 1986, said he accepted money from America’s cold war enemy because he was desperate A former National Security Agency analyst who was arguably its most damaging traitor and became famous for...
  • US asked British spy agency to stop Guardian publishing Snowden revelations
    August 31, 2022 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    Head of GCHQ rebuffed late-night request from National Security Agency amid strained relations in Five Eyes intelligence coalition The US National Security Agency (NSA) tried to persuade its British counterpart to stop the Guardian...
  • Reality Winner says she leaked file on Russia election hacking because ‘public was being lied to’
    July 25, 2022 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    Former NSA contractor says in interview ‘I knew it was secret … but I also knew that I had pledged service to the American people’ A former intelligence contractor who was imprisoned for leaking a report about Russian interference in the...
  • RAF intelligence base linked to US drone strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani
    October 2, 2021 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    Research concludes it ‘was probable’ that Menwith Hill was used to assist in the controversial assassination Campaigners have called on ministers to explain whether the secretive Menwith Hill intelligence base in Yorkshire is involved in...
  • ‘Panic made us vulnerable’: how 9/11 made the US surveillance state – and the Americans who fought back
    September 4, 2021 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    It took Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers to reveal the staggering extent of the government’s spying on its own people as institutional checks failed On the morning of 11 September 2001, an 18-year-old was driving his white Honda...
  • Reign of Terror review: from 9/11 to Trump by way of Snowden and Iraq
    August 8, 2021 from World news: NSA | theguardian.com
    Spencer Ackerman, once of the Guardian, displays a masterful command of the facts but sometimes lets his prejudice show This 11 September will be the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the...
  • West Point Wins NSA's 16th Annual Cyber Defense Exercise
    April 19, 2016 from NSA News
    The U.S. Military Academy won the 2016 Cyber Defense Exercise (CDX), capturing its 8th Information Assurance Director's Trophy since the annual competition began in 2001, NSA announced today.
  • Appointment of NSA's First Transparency Officer
    April 14, 2016 from NSA News
    Rebecca Richards, NSA's Director of Civil Liberties and Privacy, has been appointed to serve concurrently as the Agency's first Transparency Officer.
  • Women's History Month Feature
    April 1, 2016 from NSA News
    In the spotlight: An NSA Applied Research Mathematician Leans In
  • Serving the Nation with Dedication and Courage
    April 1, 2016 from NSA News
    As the events unfolded and later, as things became clearer, I felt a profound change - the world as we knew it would never be the same again. I also felt a call to action, to do something, to contribute, to serve my country.
  • National Cryptologic Museum Hosts Women in STEM Event
    March 19, 2016 from NSA News
    NSA celebrates Women's History Month with an event at the National Cryptologic Museum on March 31, 2016 to bring awareness to Women in STEM.
  • March is Women's History Month
    March 18, 2016 from NSA News
    This announcement recognizes Women's History Month and the women at NSA who make the mission happen.
  • NSA Announces 4th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition
    March 5, 2016 from NSA News
    Nomination deadline: March 31, 2016
  • 75th Anniversary of a Key U.S. Visit to Bletchley Park
    February 9, 2016 from NSA News
    The world's most important signals-intelligence liaison relationship began 75 years ago - between the United States and the United Kingdom - on February 8, 1941.
  • 08 Feb 2016 - NSA21: Facing Threats to the Nation and Future Challenges with Innovation, Integration, and a Focus on Talent
    February 8, 2016 from NSA News
    The National Security Agency has launched a comprehensive campaign to ensure NSA maintains its position as the world's preeminent foreign signals intelligence and information assurance organization. The vision and framework for this...
  • NSA Releases USA FREEDOM Act Transparency Report
    January 16, 2016 from NSA News
    The National Security Agency announced today the public release of its new report on the implementation of the USA FREEDOM Act, along with specific procedures - adopted by the U.S. Attorney General and approved by the Foreign...
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