The Balt Sun's Siobhan Gorman reports on Congressional ire over NSA management of a new program, Turbulence, meant to continuously track global communications systems. The piece also recounts Senate Armed Services committee debate yesterday over the new nominee to serve as undersecretary of defense for intelligence, James Clapper. "Clapper, who at the time was director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in Bethesda, told Congress in 2004 that control over some of the Pentagon's intelligence agencies, including the NSA and NGA, should be given instead to a new national intelligence director. Rumsfeld, who opposed the changes, later fired Clapper, according to former government officials familiar with the matter, who attributed that move to Clapper's clashes with the Defense chief." Clapper, Gorman reports, is expected to be easily confirmed.

Posted by Laura at March 28, 2007 08:20 AM