[Doug covers national security topics for Time in the magazine's Washington bureau. --Declan] http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,322587,00.html The NSA Draws Fire A scathing House report charges the agency is badly mismanaged BY DOUGLAS WALLER Saturday, Jul. 20, 2002 The FBI and the CIA have come under plenty of fire for their failure to prevent 9/11. Now, it seems, it?s the turn of the National Security Agency (NSA). The agency, whose job is to protect U.S. government information and ferret out foreign secrets, has already drawn criticism for being slow to analyze two cryptic messages it intercepted last Sept. 10, warning that something big was going to happen the next day. Now a scathing report issued by the House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the agency is badly mismanaged -- congressional sources tell TIME -- which resulted in its failing "to provide tactical and strategic warning" of Sept. 11. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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