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Hey, Wisconsin student: Have you considered a job with the NSA?

By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON — Are you looking for a fast-paced career in wire-tapping, records grabbing and just general creeping?

Then look no further than the National Security Agency.

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The embattled NSA — and its once-secret now-widely publicized program of collecting telephone records of average Americans — is hiring.

In fact, two veteran NSA workforce recruiters showed up on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on July 2, searching for recruits in a class of some 25 students enrolled in the South Asia Summer Language Institute – including five high school students.

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If Madiha R. Tahir, a freelance journalist and language institute student, could write a want ad for the tech-driven spy agency she said she would borrow loosely from a 2008 CIA Powerpoint presentation for college seniors contemplating a career in espionage.  It would go something like this:

“Are you good at manipulating people? Are you good at lying to people with a straight face?” suggested Tahir, who live tweeted and blogged about the recruitment session last week.

Let’s just say it was a rough recruiting session for the NSA.

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