organization
National Security Agency
U.S. signals intelligence agency referenced for monitoring leaders' calls.
Appears in 6 stories · first seen October 16, 2026
Often alongside:AT&TElectronic Frontier FoundationMark KleinBhumibol AdulyadejFidel CastroMikhail GorbachevNSA memoFBI
The NSA's warrantless wiretapping program secretly expanded into broad domestic collection beyond the Terrorist Surveillance Program.
10 sourcesRoom 641A housed an NSA-linked fiber interception hub that duplicated AT&T internet traffic for high-speed content and metadata analysis.
6 sourcesAT&T built a San Francisco room to copy phone and internet traffic for NSA analysis.
7 sources- Video
A retired AT&T technician revealed a secret room copying Bay Area internet traffic for NSA access.
5 sources The Clipper Chip was a built-in surveillance gateway: strong encryption wrapped around a government-held backdoor.
6 sourcesForeign leaders entered a U.S. intelligence address book spanning FBI files and NSA calls.
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