Favorite Personnel from the National Security Agency worked alongside the military, CIA, and other agencies on interrogations at Guantánamo in the early days of the war on terror, new documents show. Entries from an internal NSA publication, which were among the documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden, described staffers’ deployments to Guantánamo Bay during a…
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The Most Intriguing Spy Stories From 166 Internal NSA Reports
Favorite In the early months of 2003, the National Security Agency saw demand for its services spike as a new war in Iraq, as well as ongoing and profound changes in how people used the internet, added to a torrent of new agency work related to the war on terror, according to a review of 166 articles…
What It’s Like to Read the NSA’s Newspaper for Spies
Favorite The men and women who work at the National Security Agency were greeted, on March 31, 2003, with a cheery notice on their office computers. “Welcome to SIDtoday,” a new internal website announced, explaining that the communications team in the Signals Intelligence Directorate, the heart of the NSA, was launching the publication to keep…
How We Prepared the NSA’s Sensitive Internal Reports for Release
Favorite The 166 articles we’re releasing today from an internal NSA publication, SIDtoday, were subjected to a careful process of research, editorial evaluation, legal review, reporting, redaction, and digital processing. This article explains how that process worked. After deciding it was in the public interest to release and write about large batches of documents supplied…