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The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America Paperback – July 14, 2009

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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.

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“Important and disturbing. . . . This revealing and provocative book is necessary reading . . . Bamford goes where the 9/11 Commission did not fully go.”
—Senator Bob Kerrey, The Washington Post Book World

“Fascinating. . . . Bamford has distilled a troubling chapter in American history.”
—Bloomberg News

“At its core and at its best, Bamford’s book is a schematic diagram tracing the obsessions and excesses of the Bush administration after 9/11. . . . There have been glimpses inside the NSA before, but until now no one has published a comprehensive and detailed report on the agency. . . . Bamford has emerged with everything except the combination to the director’s safe.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Engaging. . . . Chilling. . . . Bamford is able to link disparate facts and paint a picture of utter, compounded failure—failure to find the NSA’s terrorist targets and failure to protect American citizens’ communications from becoming tangled in a dragnet.”
—The San Francisco Chronicle

“The bad news in Bamford’s fascinating new study of the NSA is that Big Brother really is watching. The worse news . . . is that Big Brother often listens in on the wrong people and sometimes fails to recognize critical information. . . . Bamford convincingly argues that the agency . . . broke the law and spied on Americans and nearly got away with it.”
—The Baltimore Sun

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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Paperback: 395 pages
Publisher: Anchor (July 14, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307279391
ISBN-13: 978-0307279392
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.9 x 8 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (138 customer reviews)
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first half was great, 2nd got a tad boring

Byjaxnavynukeon August 28, 2013

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Ok I loved the book overall, but it could all be true and I want to believe it all. Not that I believe anything the NSA says or any politician for that matter, if their lips are moving etc. Its just we have no real insight in real time ops, since everything is secret we have to trust what others tell us, but then how can they really tell us and not be in jail?

good read and scary stuff, but I always knew the gov wanted to know everything about everyone if they could find a way to do it, that was semi legal. They never do anything directly that can jail folks, that is WHy they use sub contractors. CIA is been doing for ever.

its a good wake up call for the naive.

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This book will blow your mind

ByHoward D Lippinon March 26, 2017

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If you're interested in surveillance in the US, you have to read this book! Clear and factual, we'll written, this book will blow your mind! The book begins with the intelligence failures that could have prevented 9/11.

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Great book to read

ByKindle Customeron November 8, 2015

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Great book to read! A great way to get an understanding of both sides of the surveillance issue. Other titles by this author have been good as well.

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Three Stars

ByDogwood2on March 10, 2017

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Disappointed because I expected more cloak & dagger stuff. It was too filled with the technical side of things.

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Three Stars

ByLE Curtinon April 22, 2017

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Arrived quickly and as described

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Five Stars

ByMark Fon March 7, 2017

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corrupt government

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Disappointing

ByNukeCGN25on August 9, 2016

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Having read the authors prior work (Body of Secrets, Puzzle Palace), I was looking forward to reading a story. This book provided some of that in the description of the 9 11 time line, but otherwise I felt my interest waning, mainly due to the lack of any context. I seldom do not finish a book that I have started, but halfway through this I gave up.

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Two Stars

BySore Footon September 2, 2016

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Very slow and far too complex.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews

Technology is powerful

I never realized the extent of data gathering. Basically they are connected to every spigot of data flow in the entire world! I hope it prevents another 9/11 from ever happening.

Published 2 months ago by Michael Baronas

Five Stars

Great book on NSA

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Published 3 months ago by n2it

Great read especially since it about things not to far in the past and it's true info

Great true info must read if you enjoy spy things goverment intrigue lots of stir behind the story tr it you will like it

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So much potential wasted on too many incoherent details

We are living in an age of uncertainty and fear that our civil rights are being trampled on. Of course, this book appealed to me because I am constantly seeking answers.Read more

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Published 5 months ago by Ken

Its 1984 all over again, or just here, or been here awhile!

Who knew? We are never alone--big brother is always watching us!

Published 5 months ago by Anne Elliott

The book illuminates this spy agency's willingness to violate the privacy of American citizens merely on the off-chance that use

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