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Oct 11, 2008 · When The New York Times reported the warrantless eavesdropping in December 2005, Mr. Bamford recalled, “My phone started ringing at 4 in the morning” as reporters chasing the story looked for...
Jan 1, 2009 · On February 9, 2009, Jim Bamford, author of The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, answered viewer questions about the National Security Agency,...
In 1979, while researching “The Puzzle Palace,” Bamford wanted information on an NSA operation called Shamrock: an illegal program to read all international telegrams sent out of the U.S. The NSA would not respond to any queries, but he heard of a 1975 investigation by the Department of Justice.
Jan 8, 2015 · Twenty-six years after Bamford’s landmark first book about the NSA, The Puzzle Palace, the author’s “disturbing” new portrait of the agency makes a convincing case that America’s intelligence...
Oct 14, 2008 · Despite countless articles and three books on the U.S. government's super-secret, signals-intelligence service — the latest of which, The Shadow Factory, is out today — Bamford tells Danger Room...
Oct 14, 2008 · NSA had been eavesdropping on that house for a number of years, and in late December 1999, it picked up a particular intercept, picked up a particular phone conversation.
Bamford’s book concludes around 2007, well before Edward Snowden described massive NSA surveillance programs in 2013. Yet, Bamford’s book really telegraphs Snowden’s revelations.
