Cybersecurity
Normally Hush-Hush NSA Opens Doors of New Cyber Directorate
- Unit seen as crucial to protect elections, disrupt meddlers
- The old ‘No Such Agency’ gives way to tour, chatty officials
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The National Security Agency is normally so secretive that its creation was classified, leading to the nickname “No Such Agency.”
But in a move that surely caused hand-wringing and murmurs among the nation’s longtime spies, the agency opened its doors to journalists. But just a crack.