| The importance of the Internet as an intelligence source for the NSA cannot be underestimated. The NSA may have made its Cold War reputation intercepting phone and radio traffic; these days, it's all about the Net. According to information gathered from interviews with three former or currently serving U.S. intelligence officials conducted over the past month, the NSA is now producing high-grade intelligence information on a multitude of national and transnational targets at levels never before achieved in the agency's history. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.