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Oct 11, 2008 · The latest book by James Bamford, an expert on the National Security Agency, reconstructs the agency’s recent history.
- “You Want to Hear Something Interesting?”
- “Prima Facie Questions of Criminality”
- “Put Down The Receiver, Leave The Room, and Keep Walking”
- Wrongdoing Masquerading as Patriotism
The idea of writing a book about the NSA had occurred to me several years earlier. During the war in Vietnam, I spent three years in the Navy at Pacific Fleet Headquarters in Hawaii. It was a nice venue a long way from the bloody battlefields, where the only dangers were rogue surfboards on Waikiki Beach and bar fights on Hotel Street. Assigned to ...
But my biggest battle with the NSA came before my book was even published. Without the agency’s knowledge, I had obtained the criminal file that the Justice Department had opened on the NSA. Marked as Top Secret, the file was so sensitive that only two original copies existed. Never before or since has an entire agency been the subject of a crimina...
If the first shock to top officials at the NSA was the discovery that they were being investigated as potential criminals, the second shock was that I had a copy of the top secret file on the investigation. When the NSA discovered that the file was in my possession, director Bobby Inman wrote to the attorney general informing him that the documents...
More than three decades later, the NSA, like a mom-and-pop operation that has exploded into a global industry, now employs sweeping powers of surveillance that Frank Church could scarcely have imagined in the days of wired phones and clunky typewriters. At the same time, the Senate intelligence committee he once chaired has done an about face, prot...
James Bamford (born September 15, 1946) is an American author, journalist and documentary producer noted for his writing about United States intelligence agencies, especially the National Security Agency (NSA). [1]
Jan 17, 2023 · With his trademark deep investigative style, James Bamford digs as deep as one can go into these clandestine invasions and attacks, uncovering who’s involved, how these spygames were carried out, and why none of this was stopped.
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Feb 3, 2014 · Author James Bamford, who has written three books about the National Security Agency (NSA), talked about the history of NSA spying and the NSA's surveillance of American citizens since the...
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Jun 10, 2013 · In 1982, long before most Americans ever had to think about warrantless eavesdropping, the journalist James Bamford published “The Puzzle Palace: A Report on N.S.A., America’s Most Secret...
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Nov 17, 2015 · This Wednesday’s Arrow ( The CW, 8/7c) is poised to pack a special punch, directed as it was by the series’ stunt coordinator-turned-fight coordinator, James Bamford.
