The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
Oct 2008 · Sold by Anchor
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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.
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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4.2
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Mike F
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August 24, 2017
Easy reading and captivating from start to finish. Bamford offers several historical accounts and scandal that most don't know too much about like the planning of 9/11 and a year prior, the Carter Administration spying scandal, technology stuff, and how Bush bullied and lied his way past the Justice Dept and useles ACLU, to grant him sole power during Marshall Law and to illegally spy on virtually every US citizen prior to 9/11. Most of his claims are from "insiders" and what Snowden already leaked so who knows what's true. Still good reading anyway.
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land shark
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April 28, 2014
Teacher suggested it, why not
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August 10, 2021
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About the author
James Bamford is the author of Body of Secrets, The Puzzle Palace, and A Pretext for War, and has written on national security for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. His Rolling Stone article “The Man Who Sold the War” won the 2006 National Magazine Award for reporting. Formerly the Washington investigative producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and a distinguished visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Bamford lives in Washington, D.C.
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