The Shadow Factory (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | James Bamford | knygos.lt

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In The Shadow Factory, James Bamford, the foremost expert on the National Security Agency, charts its transformation since 9/11, as the code breakers turned their ears away from outside enemies, such as the USSR, & inward to enemies whose communications increasingly crisscross America. Bamford, who 1st exposed the top-secret NSA in his bestselling The Puzzle Palace, now tells the story of the NSA's warrantless eavesdropping operation--a program so illegal it caused the attorney general, the deputy attorney general & the FBI director to threaten to resign because of it. He closely follows several of the 9/11 hijackers as they lived, plotted & traveled in the USA for nearly two years--all the while regularly communicating with Osama bin Laden's operations center in the Middle East. Incredibly, under Director Michael Hayden, the NSA was listening in but never alerted anyone that the suspected terrorists were in America. He shows how a chastened Hayden then went to the opposite extreme, turning his agency loose on thousands of citizens without the required judicial warrants, monitoring businesspeople & journalists, often recording "incredibly intimate, personal conversations."