U.S. Spy Agency Turns Eye on America
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In the name of homeland security, America's spy imagery agency is keeping a close eye, close to home. It's watching America. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, about 100 employees of a little-known branch of the Defense Department called the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency &#151; and some of the country's most sophisticated aerial imaging equipment &#151; have focused on observing what's going on in the United States.
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US government efforts to prevent further terrorist attacks on the nation&#39;s planes and trains are increasingly incorporating smart technologies that can sniff out bomb residue on a passport or see through clothes to detect weapons taped to a would-be
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Just a few weeks ago, America&#39;s finest intel agents and analysts believed they might be on the verge of a big breakthrough in the manhunt for the world&#39;s most-wanted terrorist.
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The ties between Wall Street and Chinaâs surveillance industry are starting to draw Washingtonâs attention.
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The National Security Agency is undergoing its largest recruiting drive since the Cold War. Some of the agency's top officials emerged about a year ago with a message: The NSA needs help fighting the war against global terrorism.
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A British intelligence agency is seeking spies in cyberspace.
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The Bush administration is considering making the National Security Agency &#151; famous for eavesdropping and code breaking &#151; its "traffic cop" for ambitious plans to share homeland security information across government computer networks, a senior NSA official says.
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Elite military forces are conducting special counterterrorism missions in support of civilian agencies in the United States.
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By Laurent Marot KOUROU, French Guiana  - A European Ariane rocketlaunched a military surveillance satellite on Saturday, thethird in a French-led drive for a European "spy in the sky"independent of the United States.
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Chicago Tribune - After five months of wrangling over power and money, the House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a sweeping reorganization of the nation's intelligence-gathering practices, leaving it to the Senate to give final passage to a set of reforms designed to significantly change the way U.S. spy agencies detect and track the nation's enemies.
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Remember when the CIA was a dark, malevolent force lurking in the shadows of our lives, tapping our phones, reading our mail, and planting explosive devices in Castro's cigars? Well, they're baaaack. Only now it's the National Security Agency, and they're snooping into your e-mail, cell phone conversations, and Lord knows what else.
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Spying on the United States by Russia and China has rebounded almost to Cold War levels, the top U.S. spy chief told Congress on Tuesday in seeking a permanent expansion of U.S. eavesdropping authority.
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Whether Syria is starting a nuclear program, as Israel may believe, is a difficult question for U.S. spy agencies.
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China has beamed a ground-based laser at U.S. spy satellites over its territory, a U.S. agency said, in an action that exposed the potential vulnerability of space systems that provide crucial data to American troops and consumers around the world.
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Espionage against the US is increasing, rather than decreasing,in the post-cold-war era, experts say.
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President Bush has ordered up new measures to bolster the CIA in combating weapons of mass destruction and other threats, directing an agency that lawmakers have accused of engaging in "group think" to present "diverse views" to policy-makers.
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WASHINGTON - Opening a rare window into a secret world, the CIA and the Pentagon are publicly fighting a proposal to centralize under Defense Department control the U.S. covert paramilitary operations used increasingly in recent years in Afghanistan and elsewhere...