National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

[xoxoxoBruce]

What's the 54 billion dollar US spy agency you've never heard of?
Of course this article plays on the boogeyman of what Trump could do with the NGA, but the article is still enlightening.

...the NGA remains by far the most shadowy member of the Big Five spy agencies, which include the CIA and the National Security Agency.

Despite its lack of name recognition, the NGA’s headquarters is the third-largest building in the Washington metropolitan area, bigger than the CIA headquarters and the U.S. Capitol.

Completed in 2011 at a cost of $1.4 billion, the main building measures four football fields long and covers as much ground as two aircraft carriers. In 2016, the agency purchased 99 acres in St. Louis to construct additional buildings at a cost of $1.75 billion to accommodate the growing workforce, with 3,000 employees already in the city.

The NGA is to pictures what the NSA is to voices. Its principal function is to analyze the billions of images and miles of video captured by drones in the Middle East and spy satellites circling the globe. But because it has largely kept its ultra-high-resolution cameras pointed away from the United States, according to a variety of studies, the agency has never been involved in domestic spy scandals like its two far more famous siblings, the CIA and the NSA.

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[henry quirk]

"...it has largely kept its ultra-high-resolution cameras pointed away from the United States..."

HAHAHAHAHA!

[Gravdigr]

Yeah, I tripped over that m'self.

[sexobon]

They never seem to be able to get my good side.