The Beast Is Growing By Leaps and Bounds

Apparently, rather than being scaled back after the Edward Snowden revelations, the NSA is planning to expand. The behemoth in Utah wasn’t enough. I wonder how long before the NSA is the country’s largest employer (f it isn’t already); so that we have an overwhelming force of people spying or supporting spying on fellow citizens.

The DoD proposes to develop operational complex and headquarters space at the National Security Agency’s (NSA) East Campus on Fort Meade for use by NSA and the Intelligence Community. The purpose of the Proposed Action is to provide facilities that are fully supportive of the Intelligence Community’s function and to continue to integrate the East Campus site with the NSA Main Campus. The need for the action is to meet mission requirements, both internally at the NSA and within the Intelligence Community.

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The Proposed Action would consist of the construction of approximately 2,880,000 square feet of office, operational, and headquarters space supporting an increase of 7,200 people with the majority from local leases and government- owned buildings to the NSA Main Campus. The program also includes the demolition of approximately 1,900,000 square 4 feet of aged buildings and infrastructure.

  DOD proposal via Cryptome

There’s a public meeting being held to discuss the impact of this proposal, January 27 at 4:00 pm at the Severn Community Library in Maryland. You can also submit comments to ecipeis@hdrinc.com

Nearly three million square feet?  Can that be right?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.