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THE NSA’S ROLE IN A CLIMATE-CHANGED WORLD: SPYING ON NONPROFITS, FISHING BOATS, AND THE NORTH POLE
The Intercept
IN THE NORTHERNMOST place in the United States, Point Barrow, Alaska, a National Security Agency collection site has allowed analysts to observe Russia’s military buildup 24/7, as melting Arctic ice opens a new conflict zone. The NSA has also monitored a dispute between India and Pakistan over access to the Indus River system, which is fed by glaciers high in the Himalayas, now shrinking. And as fisheries are facing increasing pressure from seas whose currents and temperatures have already been altered significantly by climate change, the NSA has listened in on phone conversations and monitored the movement of fishing boats engaged in potentially illegal practices that threaten dwindling stocks.
328 NSA DOCUMENTS REVEAL “VAST NETWORK” OF IRANIAN AGENTS, DETAILS OF A KEY INTELLIGENCE COUP, AND A FERVOR FOR VOICE MATCHING TECHNOLOGY
The Intercept
When the National Security Agency discovered that Iran may have been buying computer chips from the United States, routing them through a U.S. ally, and potentially supplying them to detonate bombs against U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, it credited so-called economic intelligence with the find.
NSA CRACKED OPEN ENCRYPTED NETWORKS OF RUSSIAN AIRLINES, AL JAZEERA, AND OTHER “HIGH POTENTIAL” TARGETS
THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY successfully broke the encryption on a number of “high potential” virtual private networks, including those of media organization Al Jazeera, the Iraqi military and internet service organizations, and a number of airline reservation systems, according to a March 2006 NSA document.
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, specializing in a discipline known as signals intelligence (SIGINT). The NSA is also tasked with the protection of U.S. communications networks and information systems.[8][9] The NSA relies on a variety of measures to accomplish its mission, the majority of which are clandestine.[10]
originally posted by: seeker1963
a reply to: CriticalStinker
Good question!
CIA needs be disbanded and spread to the winds. However, if the NSA is taking over and have the same lack of boundaries as the CIA, won't make much of a damn difference.....
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
originally posted by: seeker1963
a reply to: CriticalStinker
Good question!
CIA needs be disbanded and spread to the winds. However, if the NSA is taking over and have the same lack of boundaries as the CIA, won't make much of a damn difference.....
Unfortunately we are seeing the inverse of CIA being disbanded, they're being expanded.
Logic (or lack there of lol) leads me to believe if the NSA is taking the legwork for gathering intel, this is freeing up the CIA to do more "hands on" directives.
I expect to see some governments topple.
THE NSA’S ROLE IN A CLIMATE-CHANGED WORLD:
To find out what the weather is doing turn on the weather channel and it doesn't cost billions of dollars to spy on trees.
It's happening right now with Iran!
originally posted by: BlueJacket
a reply to: CriticalStinker
Im thinking they have more time for running drugs and guns now. Fast and furiously
en.wikipedia.org...
The NSA relies on a variety of measures to accomplish its mission, the majority of which are clandestine
Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, the CIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic intelligence collection.
......Moreover, the CIA is the only agency authorized by law to carry out and oversee covert action at the behest of the President.
That does explain some things, but how could the CIA be civilian and have black ops operating behind enemy lines?
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: CriticalStinker
That does explain some things, but how could the CIA be civilian and have black ops operating behind enemy lines?
I'm reminded of Haliburton during the Bush administration.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: CriticalStinker
Dipping an ignorant toe into this thread to make a cursory observation. The CIA is a civilian intelligence gathering organization meant to provide national security analysis to the President and his Cabinet, who are also civilians. Whereas, the NSA is under the Department of Defense and is tasked with the protection of US communications networks and information systems.
en.wikipedia.org...
The NSA relies on a variety of measures to accomplish its mission, the majority of which are clandestine
Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, the CIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic intelligence collection.
......Moreover, the CIA is the only agency authorized by law to carry out and oversee covert action at the behest of the President.
en.wikipedia.org...