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Monday, March 30, 2015

SUV Rams Gate At NSA headquarters. Shots Fired. Two Injured


Daily Mail: BREAKING NEWS: Shooting reported outside NSA headquarters on Fort Meade after SUV tried to crash through front gates

* Incident happened about 9.30am outside gates of Fort Meade in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
* Fort Meade is home to NSA, as well as the US military's Cyber Command and other sensitive agencies
* At least one government worker was seen being loaded into an ambulance

A shooting has been reported outside the headquarters of the National Security Agency in Maryland after an SUV reportedly tried to crash through the front gates.

The incident, on Fort Meade in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, has resulted in at least one injury, according to live video from the scene.

NSA police are investigating the incident, but have not released any details.

Aerial footage from WRC-TV showed one man being loaded into an ambulance and what appears to be a body being covered by a sheet outside of the gates of the military post.

More News On A Shooting Incident At The Headquarters For The NSA

Two injured in incident at NSA on Fort Meade campus -- Washington Post
LIVE VIDEO: Incident at NSA under investigation -- ABC Baltimore
Police respond to incident at U.S. security agency in Maryland: reports -- Reuters
2 Injured In Shooting At NSA Gate -- CBS Baltimore
Shots fired after SUV rams gates at NSA headquarters -- NYPost/FOX News
BREAKING: Police shoot vehicle ramming the gate at NSA headquarters at Ft. Meade -- Washington Times
Shots fired at NSA headquarters -- BBC
Vehicle rams gate at NSA headquarters, shots fired -- RT
Fort Meade Shooting: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know -- Heavy.com

WNU Editor: This is a news breaking story. We will be updating it later today.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Are Americans Becoming Bored With The NSA Story

U.S. President Barack Obama. Image by: LARRY DOWNING / Reuters

America Is Bored Of The NSA Story -- Lucia Graves, Defense One/National Journal

When President Obama announced his long-awaited reforms to the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance program, it was met by a collective yawn. It was the Friday before a holiday weekend, and not many Americans were listening. Those who were were finding it difficult.

Fifty percent of Americans have heard nothing about the president’s proposals, and 41 percent said they’d heard just a little, according to a new Pew Research Center/USA Today poll. Taken together the numbers mean that nine out of 10 citizens had little interest in what Obama had to say following six months of heated policy debate in Washington.

It’s not that the issue isn’t important (the poll also found 53 percent of respondents disapprove of the government’s bulk collection practices around Internet and telephone metadata), but that something was missing—an element that would capture the imagination of Americans and allow them to pay attention to an important (wonky!) area of policy.

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My Comment: Wars overseas, the NSA, growing debts, a paralyzed political process, an absent media .... yup .... the American people are becoming completely tuned out.