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Inside the Shadow Factory

James Bamford’s important new book details America’s post-9/11 surveillance-industrial complex

By Brian Beutler

Most Americans probably do not know what the NSA is. Among those who do, a great percentage likely have only a vague sense of what the National Security Agency actually does, with little knowledge of its domestic activities and history of lawbreaking. Anyone who falls into either of these two categories should begin by reading journalist James Bamford’s 1983 book, Thereturn to article

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