In the May 2012 Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 Newsletter, Vice President Dan Gormon

NATO Summit

The Department presented the Lodge with tentative operation plans for the upcoming NATO Summit. The De-
partment has expressed that officer safety and risk is number one among a list of priorities. Operations, Training,
Equipment and Safety were among the categories presented.
Cognizant that counterintelligence is being conducted on the Department and members, I cannot and
will not present sensitive information, which could end up in the hands of those whose sole purpose is to cause disruption by way of injuring police.

Iran curbs foreign-sourced email providers.

TEHRAN (AFP)— Iran’s telecommunications ministry has barred local banks, insurance firms and telephone operators from using foreign-sourced emails to communicate with clients, a specialist weekly said on Saturday.

“The telecommunications minister has ordered the use of domain names ending with .ir” belonging to Iran, Asr Ertebatat reported.  full story

Let’s talk bobo: it’s really pretty presumptuous (and probably nauseating some) for someone to bleat “If it can be destroyed by the Truth it should be” NO MATTER the circumstances, let alone when someone such as I who has proven to himself his too often selective relationship with important, personal realities. I love the phrase (it’s a lift, Hodgell) and will keep it.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;

For loan oft loses both itself and friend,

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

This above all: to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Polonius

Hamlet, Act III

Wikipedia

The National Security Agency is divided into two major missions: the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID), which produces foreign signals intelligence information, and the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD), which protects U.S. information systems.^[8]

NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland

Headquarters for the National Security Agency is at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, about 15 mi (24 km) southwest of Baltimore. The NSA has its own exit off Maryland Route 295 South labeled “NSA Employees Only.” The scale of the operations at the NSA is hard to determine from unclassified data; some 18,000 parking spaces are visible in photos of the site. In 2006, the Baltimore Sun reported that the NSA was at risk of electrical overload because of insufficient internal electrical infrastructure at Fort Meade to support the amount of equipment being installed. This problem was apparently recognized in the 1990s but not made a priority, and “now the agency’s ability to keep its operations going is threatened.”^[9] Its secure government communications work has involved the NSA in numerous technology areas, including the design of specialized communications hardware and software, production of dedicatedsemiconductors (at the Ft. Meade chip fabrication plant), and advanced cryptography research. The agency contracts with the private sector in the fields of research and equipment.

In addition to its Ft. Meade headquarters, the NSA has facilities at the Texas Cryptology Center in San Antonio, Texas; at Fort Gordon, Georgia, and elsewhere. (See also Friendship Annex.)

On January 6, 2011 a groundbreaking ceremony was held to begin construction on the NSA’s first Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative (CNCI) Data Center; the “Utah Data Center” for short. The US$ $1.5 billion data center is being built at Camp Williams, Utah, located 25 miles (40 km) miles south of Salt Lake City. The data center will help support the agency’s National Cyber-security Initiative.^[10]