The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret Nsa from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America by James Bamford
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I thought it was prudent to read this well-resarched, detailed NSA revelation/expose in our post-Snowden, post-Patriot Act world. There seems to be a real pattern of war and violence leading to overly invasive wiretapping with at pendulum pushed back and tragedies and malfeasance happening in both cases: American shamed, terorrists undetected, etc. This work lays out the government spying that led to the FISA firewall and how Bush's "warrantless wiretapping" basically took the teeth out of that, all tracking back to Michael Hayden. Lots of the tech is here including the immense power costs required for this type of computing and the geographical solutions to this, the Hawaii station I imagine Snowden was at, and the Israeli locus for spying technological development.
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