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National Security Agency

The National Security Agency 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, a discipline known as signals intelligence . NSA is concurrently charged with protection of U.S. government communications and information systems against penetration and network warfare. Wikipedia*

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National Security Agency has hosted 3 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1995 Speech. Most common tag: Intelligence.

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    National Security Agency Visit

    Following a tour of the National Security Agency facilities and conversations with employees, President Bush spoke to reporte…

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    U.S. Policy Toward Iraq

    Mr. Berger talked about the current crisis in Iraq and the steps the United States government is taking to alleviate the cris…

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    Allied vs. German Cryptology

    David Kahn, the National Security Agency scholar in residence, compared Allied and German cryptography, encoding, and cryptol…

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