NSA Expands, Centralizes Domestic Spying

[Clara T]

William M. Arkin on National and Homeland Security
NSA Expands, Centralizes Domestic Spying

Code Name(s) of the Week: DIAZ, Emergejust, Freedom, Highpoint, PASSGEAR, Viceroy


The National Security Agency is in the process of building a new warning hub and data warehouse in the Denver area, realigning much of its workforce from Ft. Meade, Maryland to Colorado. 
The Denver Post reported last week that NSA was moving some of its operations to the Denver suburb of Aurora. 

On the surface, the NSA move seems to be a management and cost cutting measure, part of a post-9/11 decentralization. "This strategy better aligns support to national decision makers and combatant commanders," an NSA spokesman told the Denver paper. 

In truth, NSA is aligning its growing domestic eavesdropping operations -- what the administration calls "terrorist warning" in its current PR campaign -- with military homeland defense organizations, as well as the CIA's new domestic operations Colorado. 

Translation: Hey Congress, Colorado is now the American epicenter for national domestic spying.


http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/01/nsa_expands_its.html