Source: NYTimes.com
Hired in 2001 by the National Security Agency to help it catch up with the e-mail and cellphone revolution, Thomas A. Drake became convinced that the government’s eavesdroppers were squandering hundreds of millions of dollars on failed programs while ignoring a promising alternative.
He took his concerns everywhere inside the secret world: to his [...]
One of the most secretive and powerful US intelligence agencies was yesterday thrown into the spotlight when a former top executive at the National Security Agency was indicted on 10 counts related to leaking classified information.
Thomas Drake, a former senior officer at the NSA’s signals intelligence and engineering directorate at Fort Meade, Maryland, is accused of [...]
A Maryland woman lost her accounting job after a background check performed through the FBI’s criminal database indicated, erroneously, that she was unsuitable for the job, according to the Baltimore Sun.
Eschol Amelia “Amy” Studnitz had been working for Corporate Mailing Services since August 2008 as a senior accountant.
Last July, after CMS won a contract to handle [...]
