National Security Agency
U.S. signals intelligence organization
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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 (DNI). The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign and domestic 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. The NSA relies on a variety of measures to accomplish its mission, the majority of which are clandestine.
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- Like a black hole, NSA pulls in every signal that comes near, but no electron is ever allowed to escape.
- James Bamford, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America (2008), Doubleday, p. 14.
