Using cartoons, games and kid-friendly websites, the federal intelligence community is seeking to win the hearts and minds of America's children. (Kind of like smokey the bear did)

Move over, McGruff. The trench-coated canine mascot of the National Crime Prevention Council has some youthful competition in the battle for the hearts and minds of America's children. Now in virtual training on the website of the National Security Agency are the CryptoKids, the code-makers and code-breakers of America's future.

The NSA, based at Fort Meade, Maryland, has seven CryptoKids in its trademarked menagerie, including Crypto Cat, versed in Navajo, the language of the storied code talkers of World War II; Decipher Dog, a cryptanalyst who learned the fine points of broadband networking from his stepmother, an NSA network engineer; T. Top, a turtle who knows how to design and build computers; and a language analyst named Rosetta Stone.

This Toys 'R' Us approach to spying is nothing new for the fifteen agencies that comprise the "intelligence community" of the US government, including the CIA, the NSA and the National Reconnaissance Office. In 1997 President Bill Clinton mandated that all government agencies set aside virtual space on their websites for child-friendly material. Today, these sites serve as recruiting portals for America's youth.
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Hey Kids! Spying can be fun. And we're here to show you how it can be fun. LMAO.

i know the next "cute character" for the CIA : " Snipy Moongosee, the retirer of incovenient public figures"

That's just disgusting. Let's stay with the clown that gets our kids into the lucrative fast-food industry instead.

Dang what a brilliant idea.. Sick but brilliant.. I mean, have an innocent kid standing next to someone doing something they shouldnt be doing, and have the kid just be a kid.
Kid: Whats that Mr.??
Kid: Whats that Do Mr??
kid: What are you doing Mr.???
kid: Why do that Mr.???

etc.. etc.... I bet quite a few people would spill the beans to a kid, without really thinking twice about it.

This is nothing new...

Just to name a couple of things...

G.I. Joe

The new Army video game that recruiters hand out free to middle schoolers though high schoolers.

To get into the NSA I would think you would need great grades and a helluva a brain, so what is really wrong by making smart kids?

Or maybe...

You're all afraid of the evil American empire *evil laugh entered here*

ahhh kids today; that crafty nsa can get the kids spying on their parents wow it's so orwellian

Ewww spying on their parents. I can just imagine what they see their parents doing. Come in to their bedroom at night or put a cam in your parents room and at night check out whats happening. Picture that in your mind. Can you guess what your parents do at night while your at bed if your a child?

Instead of going to the NSA, they'll be making a swift left turn towards the mental house.