The American National Security Agency (NSA). 🇺🇸

The National Security Agency (NSA) is a cryptologic intelligence agency.

NSA's intelligence gathering is limited to foreign communications by laws.

Headquarters for the National Security Agency is set apart from but is technically inside Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, on 350 acres.

The NSA, which has about 42,000 1⃣government and contract workers.

NSA's mission, is set forth in Executive Order 12333, it is to collect information that constitutes "foreign intelligence or counterintelligence".

NSA/CSS provides intelligence products and services to the White House, executive agencies (such as CIA and the State Department), the Chairman and Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), military combatant commanders and component commands, military departments, multinational forces, and U.S. allies. In addition, we provide Information Assurance products and services to users of national security information systems and to government contractors, as required.

As of 2012, NSA collected intelligence from four geostationary satellites.

 Satellite receivers were at Roaring Creek station in Catawissa, Pennsylvania and Salt Creek in Arbuckle, California.[37] It operated ten to twenty taps on U.S. telecom switches. NSA had installations in several U.S. states and from them observed intercepts from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Latin America, and Asia.2⃣

The NSA has an electronic monitoring station in RAF Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.  The base covered 562 acres.

They are building at FORT MEADE, Md.  a new High Performance Computing Center-2, an NSA-run facility .The 600,000-square-foot center will include 70,000 square feet of computer space.

It has a $8-10 billion annual budget.

1⃣ Bloomberg June 2013 .

2⃣ Wikipedia 

When an American President retires how can he spend his time ?

When an American President retires how can he spend his time ? Well one went on Safari in Africa.

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States (1901–1909).

In March 1909, shortly after the end of his presidency, Roosevelt left New York for a safari in east and central Africa. Roosevelt's party landed in Mombasa, Kenya. It was partly   Financed by Andrew Carnegie. 

Expedition Costs

$50,000 from Smithsonian Museum appeal

$25,000 from Theodore Roosevelt

$25,000 from Andrew Carnegie

In 2005 equivalent $ 1.8 million dollars.

Roosevelt and his companions killed or trapped approximately 11,400 animals, from insects and moles to hippopotamuses and elephants. The 1000 large animals included 512 big game animals, including 

• Lion = 9

• Hyena = 5

• Elephant = 8

• Rhinoceros = 13

• Hippopotamus = 7 

• Warthog = 8 

• Zebra (common) = 15

• Zebra (big) = 5

• Giraffe = 7

• Buffalo = 6

• Eland (giant) = 1

• Eland (common) = 5

• Bushbuck = 6

Etc, etc, etc.....

The expedition consumed 262 of the animals. Tons of salted animals and their skins were shipped to Washington. Roosevelt's party hunted for specimens for the Smithsonian Institution and for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. 

Roosevelt wrote a detailed account of the adventure in the book African Game Trails, where he describes the excitement of the chase, the people he met, and the flora and fauna he collected in the name of science.