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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Bull

[k1e0x]

I'm calling BS on that one. If the government needs money it just prints it (actually they get a loan from the FED), there is no national tresuary or anything like that.

"Oh look at us we are SOOO broke protecting freedom that we need 800 million dollars so we can have power."{

Sorry guys.. you have far more of my money that I would ever willfully give you. Deal with it.