Polly-voo jihad?In our last issue, we complained about the failure of the FBI and CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). to have enlisted enough Arabic speakers after 9/11 made the need obvious. Now comes Lieutenant General Keith D. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, to reveal, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Washington Times reporters Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough, that the NSA NSA abbr. National Security Agency Noun 1. NSA - the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign has a "backlog of untranslated electronic intelligence leads on terrorists that has grown since 2001." "Grown" is the scary word. We knew that we were way behind in 2001. Now they tell us that we're even worse off. Alexander adds, "[T]oday's backlog is no longer confined to Arabic and its multiple dialects, but also includes a variety of other less commonly taught languages Less Commonly Taught Languages (or LCTLs) is a designation used in the United States for languages other than the three most commonly taught foreign/world languages in US public schools, i.e. Spanish, French, and German. ." He concludes that "the translation backlog can prevent the timely distribution of key information to the NSA's customers." This is not comforting news. These "customers" are the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, and the White House. |
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