director who reports to the deputy director, who reports to the DIRNSA,” as Ambinder explains it. The DIRNSA is the Director of the NSA, who is also the Commander of the Defense Department’s US Cyber Command and the Central Security Service. (p.3)
He further explained that the NSA’s Foreign Affairs Directorate works with any “foreign intelligence services, counterintelligence centers and the UK/USA and FIVE EYES exchanges.” (p.3)
The Office of Export Control Policy is also included in same directorate. The Information Assurance Directorate (IA) is “the center of the NSA’s cyber warfare and defense program offices.” (p.3) The Signals Intelligence Directorate (SIGINT) is the most functional and important one. This directorate has three subdivisions; one that helps determines the requirements for the president, the military and other agencies. Analysts intercept millions of communication data every week – whistleblower Edward Snowden noted it is almost “8 times the library of Congress”, conducted every single day. (The Guardian, 2013) The other subdivision regulates the NSA’s main …show more content…
(The Washington Post, 2013) A 178-page budget summary obtained by the Post from the former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, detailing that the NIP budget covers 16 different intelligence agencies that make up the US Intelligence community, which has 107,035 employees.
“The United States has made a considerable investment in the Intelligence Community since the terror attacks of 9/11, a time which includes wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction technology, and asymmetric threats in such areas as cyber-warfare,” Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. wrote in response to inquiries from the Post; (p.2) giving us here, some vague insight to the budget spending of the
He further explained that the NSA’s Foreign Affairs Directorate works with any “foreign intelligence services, counterintelligence centers and the UK/USA and FIVE EYES exchanges.” (p.3)
The Office of Export Control Policy is also included in same directorate. The Information Assurance Directorate (IA) is “the center of the NSA’s cyber warfare and defense program offices.” (p.3) The Signals Intelligence Directorate (SIGINT) is the most functional and important one. This directorate has three subdivisions; one that helps determines the requirements for the president, the military and other agencies. Analysts intercept millions of communication data every week – whistleblower Edward Snowden noted it is almost “8 times the library of Congress”, conducted every single day. (The Guardian, 2013) The other subdivision regulates the NSA’s main …show more content…
(The Washington Post, 2013) A 178-page budget summary obtained by the Post from the former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, detailing that the NIP budget covers 16 different intelligence agencies that make up the US Intelligence community, which has 107,035 employees.
“The United States has made a considerable investment in the Intelligence Community since the terror attacks of 9/11, a time which includes wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction technology, and asymmetric threats in such areas as cyber-warfare,” Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. wrote in response to inquiries from the Post; (p.2) giving us here, some vague insight to the budget spending of the