The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
by:
James Bamford (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B001FA0JLY
Pages no: 395
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...