The Shadow Factory : The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America (Hardcover)

from TeaTimeCoder

I expected this to have had been made obsolete by (now not so) recent findings but was surprised how much was already widely known even then. Somehow that's not how I remembered it but there it is. Even the book makes comparisons with older scandals - this is a never-ending cycle. All of it seems...

from KirkLowery

Bamford has made a career of writing about the NSA. In this volume he recounts the events of 9/11 from the NSA's viewpoint, showing how they screwed up, refused to acknowledge it, and proceeded to ask for -- and get, tons of money to increase their surveillance capabilities. As he tells it, with ...

from abirdman

Non-fiction presented in the form of a spy thriller. It's hard to tell what's true and what's "embellished." This book implies there were politics and other Washington shenanigans that kept the various US intelligence agencies from sorting out the many clues they had of the impending September 11...

from LamSon

A fairly interesting look at the NSA, which Bamford has written about in several other books. It bogged down in the middle when he is describing some of the technology. I found it interesting that the NSA can listen in on phone conversations in Yemen. At the same time it was a little unnerving to...

from tmph

Ai, yi, yi. Must read about US Intelligence both foreign and domestic; the NSA; the telecoms; the foreign hardware/software companies involved. Whew.