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White House may make NSA the 'traffic cop' over U.S. computer networks
Ted Bridis, The Associated Press 2005-02-14

The Bush administration is considering making the National Security Agency -- famous for eavesdropping and code breaking -- its "traffic cop" for ambitious plans to share homeland security information across government computer networks, a senior NSA official says.

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White House may make NSA the 'traffic cop' over U.S. computer networks 2005-02-15
Anonymous
Such an idea would probably have a positive impact on the national security of the US. Depending on the costs of such a system, massive privacy violations are inevitable.

Instead of becoming an official "traffic cop", why don't the intelligence communities develop/obtain better information fil...

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