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The Shadow Factory

The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

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The Shadow Factory

By: James Bamford
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
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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 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.

©2008 James Bamford (P)2008 Books on Tape Americas Freedom & Security Politics & Government United States National Security Espionage Middle East Military Iran Soviet Union Imperial Japan Surveillance Africa Computer Security
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Made me research into this more, the further I look and dig in, the more I uncovered. this book is a real eye opening into the dark side if life, and where we as a race in heading.

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I enjoyed this very much and as a result will be getting another book by the author. It was a little flat about 3/4 of the way through, but got interesting again quickly. Good read / listen and the narrator did a good job too!

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