by Noah Shachtman | Aug 21, 2012 | Monitor
Col. Todd Wood (right), commander of 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, briefs National Security Agency director Gen. Keith Alexander at Forward Operating Base Masum Ghar in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Photo: Sgt. Michael Blalack/U.S. Army...
by Sharon Weinberger and Noah Shachtman | Aug 7, 2012 | Monitor
A selection from a 2006 Marine Corps request for a laser weapon. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service has asked Danger Room repeatedly to take down the unclassified document. In its mounting campaign against leakers, the U.S. government isn’t just going...
by Cade Metz | Jul 17, 2012 | Monitor
The Senate Armed Service Committee isn’t exactly pleased with the NSA’s Google-like database. Image: jim.greenhill/Flickr In 2008, a team of software coders inside the National Security Agency started reverse-engineering the database that ran Google. They...