The shadow factory

Description:

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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

subjects: Politics and government,  United States,  Electronic surveillance,  United States. National Security Agency,  Intelligence service,  Nonfiction,  Politics,  History,  nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2008-11-02,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed,  Intelligence service, united states,  Electronic surveillance, united states,  United states, politics and government, 2001-2009,  United states, national security agency/central security service

People: John Ashcroft,  Mohamed Atta,  Osama bin Laden,  George W. Bush,  Dick Cheney,  Richard Clarke,  James Comey,  Gerald R. Ford,  Alberto Gonzalez,  Hani Hanjour,  Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi,  Eric C. Haseltine,  Jeanine Carrier Hayden,  Michael Vincent Hayden,  Nawaf al-Hazmi,  Saddam Hussein,  Adrienne J. Kinne,  Mark Kline,  David Kreinberg,  Royce C. Lamberth,  Mike McConnell,  Theodore Olson,  George Orwell (1903-1950),  John Poindexter,  Colin Powell,  Ronald Reagan,  Brian Reid,  Condoleezza Rice,  John D. Rockefeller IV,  Mark Rossini,  Donald Rumsfeld,  Marwan al-Shehhi,  William O. Studeman,  George Tenet,  Joseph J. Tomba,  Harry Truman,  Tom Wilshire,  Herbert O. Yardley,  John C. Yoo

Places: United States

Times: 2001-,  2001-2009