A bizarre story from the Baltimore Sun brings word of an impending crisis at the National Security Agency. Senator John D. Rockefeller is calling it "a national catastrophe," in as little as two years the electrical demands of the NSA may outstrip supply.

Rockefeller, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, gave an interview to the Sun yesterday. He said that officials at the NSA "were so busy doing what various people wanted that they forgot to understand that they were running out of power, and that's sort of a national catastrophe."

The Sun reports that the NSA uses 65 to 75 megawatt-hours of electricity and expects demand at the facility to increase an additional 10 to 15 megawatt-hours by next fall. The NSA has "shut off some equipment and delayed plugging in some new supercomputers," in order to reduce demand. ACLU members, sleep easy, the NSA is powerless to bug your phones.

The future of the NSA: Hand Operated Red Analog.