Meltdown Showed Extent of NSA Surveillance — and Other Tales From Hundreds of Intelligence Documents
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Summary: The problem had been brewing for nearly a decade, intelligence sources had warned, as the National Security Agency vacuumed up more and more surveillance information into computer systems at its Ford Meade, Maryland, headquarters: There just wasn’t enough power coming through the local electric grid to support the rate at which the agency was hoarding other people’s communications.