NSA

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How to strengthen America’s cyberdefenses

Chad Wolf and Dustin Carmack · March 17, 2021 11:42 am

Will Merrick Garland reject lawless surveillance?

Bob Goodlatte · February 22, 2021 5:00 am

FILE - This June 6, 213 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The NSA has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the intelligence agency broad new powers in 2008, The Washington Post reports. In one case, telephone calls from Washington were intercepted when the city's area code was confused with the dialing code for Egypt. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Beltway Confidential

When the revolving door harms national security

Timothy P. Carney · February 12, 2021 8:58 pm

FILE - This June 6, 213 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The NSA has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the intelligence agency broad new powers in 2008, The Washington Post reports. In one case, telephone calls from Washington were intercepted when the city's area code was confused with the dialing code for Egypt. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

GOP calls for DOD investigation into Biden administration placing Michael Ellis on leave at NSA

Jerry Dunleavy · February 9, 2021 8:14 pm

In this handout photo taken from a video published by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on his instagram account, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny steps down in a hospital in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020.

Beltway Confidential

Biden administration uses misleading intelligence excuse to delay Navalny poison response

Tom Rogan · January 25, 2021 9:19 pm

Foreigners board a Qatar Airways aircraft at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021.

Pentagon spy agency buys US smartphone data without warrant, memo says

Jerry Dunleavy · January 24, 2021 1:26 am

This June 6, 2013, file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Maryland.

Trump administration pick for top NSA lawyer placed on administrative leave

Jerry Dunleavy · January 21, 2021 2:02 am

NSA moves forward with installing Michael Ellis as its top lawyer despite Democratic opposition

Jerry Dunleavy · January 17, 2021 11:07 pm

Magazine - Features

Snowden’s no hero

Rebeccah Heinrichs · January 1, 2021 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Inside the NSA’s means to retaliate against Russia for SolarWinds hack

Tom Rogan · December 23, 2020 8:00 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks during a visit to Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) in Moscow, Russia

Beltway Confidential

How the Russian SVR scored a huge SolarWinds cyber attack win

Tom Rogan · December 18, 2020 7:34 pm

By elevating it to a full combatant command, cyber operations are now on par with other commands. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Foreign hackers pull off successful attack despite Cyber Command’s ‘defend forward’ strategy

Jerry Dunleavy · December 15, 2020 11:00 am