{"id":301814,"date":"2017-04-02T07:29:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T06:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/more-dangerous-than-the-nsa-the-massive-spy-agency-you-havent-heard-of\/"},"modified":"2017-04-02T07:29:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T06:29:30","slug":"more-dangerous-than-the-nsa-the-massive-spy-agency-you-havent-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/more-dangerous-than-the-nsa-the-massive-spy-agency-you-havent-heard-of\/","title":{"rendered":"More Dangerous Than The NSA? The Massive Spy Agency You Haven\u2019t Heard Of"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alice Salles<\/strong>
<\/a> TheAntiMedia.org<\/a>
<\/a><\/em>April 1, 2017<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re one of the countless Americans who was distraught to learn of the revelations made by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden,\u00a0the mere idea that there might be yet another agency out there \u2013 perhaps just as powerful and much more intrusive \u2013\u00a0 should give you goosebumps.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Foreign Policy<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that the\u00a0National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, or NGA, is an obscure spy agency<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0former President Barack Obama had a hard time wrapping his mind around back in 2009. But as the president grew fond of drone warfare, finding a way to\u00a0launch wars without having to go through Congress<\/a>\u00a0for the proper authorization, the NGA also became more relevant. Now, President Donald Trump is expected to further explore the multibillion-dollar surveillance network.<\/p>\n

Like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA),\u00a0the NGA is an intelligence agency, but it also serves as a combat support institution that functions under the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).<\/strong><\/p>\n

With headquarters bigger than the CIA\u2019s, the building cost $1.4 billion to be completed in 2011. In 2016, the NGA bought an extra 99 acres in St. Louis, building additional structures that cost taxpayers an extra $1.75 billion.<\/p>\n

Enjoying the extra budget Obama threw at them, the NGA became one of the most obscure intelligence agencies precisely because it relies on the work of drones.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a body of government that has only one task \u2014 to analyze images and videos captured by drones in the Middle East \u2014 the NGA is mighty powerful. So why haven\u2019t we heard of it before?<\/p>\n

The Shadow Agency That Sees It All<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Prior to Trump\u2019s inauguration, the NGA only targeted the Middle East or whatever spy satellites orbiting the globe captured. As far as most of us knew, the agency refrained from pointing its ultra-high-resolution cameras toward the…<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Alice Salles TheAntiMedia.orgApril 1, 2017 If you\u2019re one of the countless Americans who was distraught to learn of the revelations made by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden,\u00a0the mere idea that there might be yet another agency out there \u2013 perhaps just as powerful and much more intrusive \u2013\u00a0 should give you goosebumps. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-301814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}