The SIDtoday Files

Internal NSA reports reveal the exploits of a secret commando unit, new details of a joint venture with the CIA, and spying against Middle Eastern satellite internet.

The revolutionary NSA system merged different sources of electronic surveillance to rapidly map enemy fighters. The ramifications are still being felt.

Israeli military officials privately pressed for an exemption to intelligence restrictions during a 2006 war with Hezbollah.

The report about Kursk also stated that the Russian navy did not try to contact the submarine for five hours after explosions that sank it.

Highlights from the seventh release of the internal NSA newsletter, SIDtoday.

Rahe Clancy thought the NSA had become too corporate. So he wrote an agitated series of missives — for the agency.

New documents show how U.S. spies gathered intelligence related to environmental conflicts, disasters, and resources

The agency broke into virtual private networks for several key targets, including two government entities in Iraq.

The documents, from an internal NSA newsletter, also reveal problems recruiting Arabic speakers to the spy agency and evidence of election fraud in Egypt.

A base called VICTORY GARDEN, north of Oslo, secretly captured records of phone calls and emails transmitted between law-abiding Norwegians and their friends, families, or colleagues in foreign countries.