The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
by:
James Bamford (author)
James Bamford has been the preeminent expert on the National Security Agency since his reporting revealed the agency’s existence in the 1980s. Now Bamford describes the transformation of the NSA since 9/11, as the agency increasingly turns its high-tech ears on the American public.The Shadow...
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James Bamford has been the preeminent expert on the National Security Agency since his reporting revealed the agency’s existence in the 1980s. Now Bamford describes the transformation of the NSA since 9/11, as the agency increasingly turns its high-tech ears on the American public.The Shadow Factory reconstructs how the NSA missed a chance to thwart the 9/11 hijackers and details how this mistake has led to a heightening of domestic surveillance. In disturbing detail, Bamford describes exactly how every American’s data is being mined and what is being done with it. Any reader who thinks America’s liberties are being protected by Congress will be shocked and appalled at what is revealed here.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307279392 (0307279391)
Publish date: July 14th 2009
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Science,
Technology,
War,
Military,
Politics,
American History,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Political Science,
Government
The Shadow Factory is a frightening book. It is especially frightening when you realize that the incomprehensibly massive database of phone calls, emails, and web searches that the United States government is indiscriminately intercepting and stockpiling in the name of the War on Terror could easily...
“There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.” (p 344)Bamford’s turf is the NSA and he mines that lode again. This time with an eye towards how the gathering of intelligence changed from a foc...
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