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22 LOSING FOCUS NSA Command Center With a new travel assignment about to commence, Jana became more aware of how exhausted she was. No matter how much she tried to sleep, she would wake but still feel tired. It was a never-ending spiral that she could not escape. It was time for a mental break from the search for terrorists. She slumped into a chair and stared at the computer terminal through bloodshot eyes. Then a wandering thought occurred to her. She had been unable to find much information about her parents on the Internet. But she wondered if here at NSA headquarters, she could access her own personnel records on the FBI’s database. Surely the NSA had access to all FBI personnel files. Perhaps there was more information there. “Personnel records are sealed,” she said just under h