Meet Zelda, the unlikely ‘Dear Abby’ of NSA

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http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/09/06/rare-peek-into-super-secret-nsa-through-its-very-own-advice-columnist/pNheGTksn0rqJHU8XqltwI/story.html

By Bryan Bender
GLOBE STAFF
SEPTEMBER 07, 2014

WASHINGTON — The anonymous employee wrote to complain that a high-ranking 
official “is frequently MIA,” or missing in action.

“We never know if he is coming or not,” the underling wrote. “He 
frequently leaves work in the middle of the day to run routine errands. I 
overheard him tell a co-worker, ‘This place is last on my list of 
priorities.’ ”

“This place” is none other than the super-secret National Security Agency. 
The writer, “Headless in Headquarters,” was airing one of scores of 
grievances to “Zelda,” the often cheeky and opinionated advice columnist 
in the agency’s employee newsletter — a popular fixture inside the spy 
agency whose role is revealed in documents obtained by The Boston Globe.

“Ask Zelda,” in its quirky, sarcastic, and at times blunt and sobering 
style, reveals a host of workplace ills at the agency that has been under 
fire for monitoring huge amounts of private communications since a former 
contractor, Edward Snowden, last year leaked thousands of documents about 
its domestic intelligence-gathering practices.

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