Underfunded NSA Suffers Brownouts

An anonymous reader writes "Almost ten years after the an internal report, and a year after a Baltimore sun story warned that the electrical system at the fort Meade NSA HQ couldn't keep up with the growing electricity demand ... the problem has got worse. The 'NSA has had to resort to partial, rolling brownouts at its computer farms and scheduled power outages and some offices are experiencing significant power disruptions'. NSA director Alexander testified to congress about this problem. It is suggested he wanted to add more than $800 million to the 07 budget. A recent public powerpoint presentation suggested 70% of of all intelligence spending goes to contractors. It also included a graph, without numbers, of this spending. It suggests that US intelligence spending is around $60 billion. An internal survey that showed NSA employees have problems trusting each other."

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Bush is Qaeda

[Doc Ruby]

Funny how the NSA that is tapping every phonecall and filtering every email and blog post (including this one you're reading right now) seems to have as much money as it can spend.

But the one defending the country from actual foreign enemies can't pay the light bill.

While Halliburton throws around $8 BILLION in untracked "footballs", atop their other mountains of Bush/Cheney cash.

Er, actually, that's not funny at all.

If Osama were in the White House, what would he have done differently from Bush/Cheney the past 6.5 years?