{"id":23400,"date":"2017-04-01T09:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23400"},"modified":"2017-04-01T09:07:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:07:48","slug":"nga-the-massive-spy-agency-you-havent-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23400","title":{"rendered":"NGA: The Massive Spy Agency You Haven\u2019t Heard Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/agency-dangerous-nsa\/\">NGA: The Massive Spy Agency You Haven\u2019t Heard Of<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<article id=\"post-60561\" class=\"main-content post-60561 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-freedom category-government-accountability category-justice category-news category-surveillance-state tag-central-intelligence-agency tag-cia tag-cocom tag-dawn-m-k-zoldi tag-department-of-defense tag-dod tag-george-w-bush tag-homeland-security tag-national-applications-office tag-national-geospatial-intelligence-agency tag-national-security-agency tag-nga tag-nsa tag-obama tag-pentagon tag-trump\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><b>(<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a><b>)<\/b>\u00a0If you\u2019re one of the countless Americans who was distraught to learn of the revelations made by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, the mere idea that there might be yet another agency out there \u2014 perhaps just as powerful and much more intrusive \u2014 \u00a0should give you goosebumps.<\/p>\n<p><i>Foreign Policy<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2017\/03\/20\/the-multibillion-dollar-u-s-spy-agency-you-havent-heard-of-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, or NGA, is an obscure spy agency former President Barack Obama had a hard time wrapping his mind around back in 2009. But as the president grew fond of drone warfare, finding a way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/george-will-obama-needs-congress-to-approve-this-war\/2014\/09\/17\/26de9d3e-3dc9-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">launch wars without having to go through Congress<\/a> for the proper authorization, the NGA also became more relevant. Now, President Donald Trump is expected to further explore the multibillion-dollar surveillance network.<\/p>\n<p>Like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA), the NGA is an intelligence agency, but it also serves as a combat support institution that functions under the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).<\/p>\n<p>With headquarters bigger than the CIA\u2019s, the building cost $1.4 billion to be completed in 2011. In 2016, the NGA bought an extra 99 acres in St. Louis, building additional structures that cost taxpayers an extra $1.75 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoying the extra budget Obama threw at them, the NGA became one of the most obscure intelligence agencies precisely because it relies on the work of drones.<\/p>\n<p>As a body of government that has only one task \u2014 to analyze images and videos captured by drones in the Middle East \u2014 the NGA is mighty powerful. So why haven\u2019t we heard of it before?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Shadow Agency That Sees It All<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NGA: The Massive Spy Agency You Haven\u2019t Heard Of (ANTIMEDIA)\u00a0If you\u2019re one of the countless Americans who was distraught to learn of the revelations made by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, the mere idea that there might be yet another agency out there \u2014 perhaps just as powerful and much more intrusive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14582,8803,249,15059,551,15058,577],"class_list":["post-23400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-alice-salles","tag-antimedia","tag-edward-snowden","tag-national-geospatial-intelligence-agency","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nga","tag-nsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23401,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23400\/revisions\/23401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}