Inside Kryptos: The CIA’s Unsolved Puzzle That Still Holds Clues
In the courtyard of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, there’s a sculpture made of copper, granite, and mystery. Most employees walk past it every day. Few understand that it’s still talking to them. Kryptos isn’t just an artwork. It’s a deliberate enigma. Four...
An Internal Complaint, a Foreign Tie & a Trail That Went Quiet
In 2016, an NSA employee alleged that a colleague had been improperly hired-someone with prior access to classified information and potential foreign government connections. The case triggered a months-long internal investigation by the agency’s Inspector General. The...
How the NSA Weaponized Semantics to Deny Snowden’s Whistleblower Claims
When Edward Snowden claimed he’d raised concerns through official NSA channels before leaking classified documents, the agency responded not with transparency-but with a flurry of FOIA rejections, legal semantics, and redacted letters. Hundreds of pages of internal...
NSA Scrambled to Disprove Snowden’s Claims-While Withholding the Rest
In 2014, Edward Snowden publicly challenged the NSA to deny he had emailed agency lawyers raising concerns about surveillance programs. The NSA responded with silence, then a carefully orchestrated media campaign, and finally-hundreds of heavily redacted documents...
NSA Memo Details Dozens of U.S. Privacy Violations in Just One Quarter
It was supposed to be careful, targeted, and strictly within legal boundaries. But for three months in early 2003, the NSA’s internal compliance report reads like a checklist of domestic violations. From listening in on Americans’ private conversations to...
