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There have been glimpses inside the NSA before, but until now no one has published a comprehensive and detailed report on the agency . . . Mr. Bamford has emerged with everything except the combination to the director's safe. -New York Times Book Review Today's National Security Agency is the largest, most costly, and most technologically advanced spy organization the world has ever known. It is also the most intrusive, secretly filtering millions of phone calls and e-mails an hour in the United States and around the world. Half a million people live on its watch list, and the number grows by the thousands every month. Has America become a surveillance state? In The Shadow Factory, James Bamford, the foremost expert on the National Security Agency, charts its transformation since 9/11, as the legendary code breakers turned their ears away from outside enemies, such as the Soviet Union, and inward to enemies whose communications increasingly crisscross America. Fast-paced and riveting, The Shadow Factory is about a world unseen by Americans without the highest security clearances. But it is a world in which even their most intimate whispers may no longer be private.Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-100739370731
ISBN-139780739370735
eBay Product ID (ePID)65723474
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Book TitleShadow Factory : the Ultra-Secret Nsa from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
TopicIntelligence & Espionage, Civil Rights, General, United States / General
Publication Year2008
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistory, Political Science
AuthorJames Bamford
Dimensions
Item Height1.2in
Item Length5.9in
Item Width5.1in
Item Weight6 Oz
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"Important and disturbing.... This revealing and provocative book is necessary reading." -The Washington Post Book World "There have been glimpses inside the NSA before, but until now no one has published a comprehensive and detailed report on the agency." -The New York Times Book Review "Fascinating.... Bamford has distilled a troubling chapter in American history." -Bloomberg News From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal327.1273
Edition DescriptionAbridged Edition