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Mar 31 15 12:34 PM
A shootout has erupted outside the headquarters of the US National Security Agency, leaving one suspect dead and two others wounded, after a pair of men dressed as women tried to drive through the front gates. The men sped through the NSA entrance at Fort Meade in Maryland in a stolen Ford Escape around 9am local time, reports NBC News. The suspects opened fire when a guard intervened. The guard returned fire, killing one of the men and wounding the other. The 44-year-old guard was also injured. He and the surviving suspect, 20, were flown to a nearby hospital for treatment.
A shootout has erupted outside the headquarters of the US National Security Agency, leaving one suspect dead and two others wounded, after a pair of men dressed as women tried to drive through the front gates.
The men sped through the NSA entrance at Fort Meade in Maryland in a stolen Ford Escape around 9am local time, reports NBC News.
The suspects opened fire when a guard intervened. The guard returned fire, killing one of the men and wounding the other.
The 44-year-old guard was also injured.
He and the surviving suspect, 20, were flown to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Former NSA and CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden said the NSA will be forced to "fold its tent" on its phone data collection program without re-authorization by Congress of key sections of the Patriot Act due to expire later this year. "Our government has indicated that if Congress doesn't act, the NSA is going to fold its tent on this program because it will lose the authorization it currently has to do what it is currently doing without replacing it with any new approach," Hayden told The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV Monday. He said the "legal technicalities" to give the National Security Agency "a window… would be very much contested.""What we need is Congress to act."
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