NSA's WTFs, the biggest ones in town!
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Take some time to read this article from February 2006 — you don't get that often postmortem reports from No Such Agency:
Computer ills hinder NSA (from the Baltimore Sun)
Warning: don't read that from the US, unless you don't pay taxes there :-)
I really like the codename of their biggest failu^Wmammoth project, Groundbreaker... Not a bad name after all!
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I used to work on NSA projects. As luck would have it, they started this one not too long after I left that business.
Coincidence? I THINK NOT! Clearly, I was a crucial element of the NSA's computing infrastructure, without whom nothing works! Ever!