[privacy] U.S. Spies Prep Reporters on Protecting Secrets

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The New York Sun.

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Frustrated by press leaks about its most sensitive electronic surveillance
work, the secretive National Security Agency convened an unprecedented
series of off-the-record "seminars" in recent years to teach reporters
about the damage caused by such leaks and to discourage reporting that
could interfere with the agency's mission to spy on America's enemies.

The half-day classes featured high-ranking NSA officials highlighting
objectionable passages in published stories and offering "an innocuous
rewrite" that officials said maintained the "overall thrust" of the
articles but omitted details that could disclose the agency's techniques,
according to course outlines obtained by The New York Sun.

Dubbed "SIGINT 101," using the NSA's shorthand for signals intelligence,
the seminar was presented "a handful of times" between approximately 2002
and 2004, an agency spokeswoman, Marci Green, confirmed yesterday.
Officials were pleased with the program, she said.

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More:
http://www.nysun.com/article/63465

- - ferg

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