Watchers The Rise of America's Surveillance State

Name: Watchers The Rise of America's Surveillance State
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ISBN: 9780143118909

ISBN-10: 0143118900

ISBN-13: 9780143118909

Edition: 2011

Authors: Shane Harris

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An explosive look at the domestic agencies charged with spying on all of us. Given recent terrorist events in the U.S., this timely book draws on access to political and operational insiders to create a brilliant exposé of why and how the American government spies on citizens. Born in the wake of the 1983 massacre of 241 Marines in Beirut, the plan by Ronald Reagan's national security advisor, John Poindexter, to coordinate intelligence on terrorists has claimed billions of government dollars. Despite the cost, it has failed in its mission to identify new threats. But as Harris shows, it has provided the government with a tool for spying on Americans that has ushered in an age of…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/25/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.49" wide x 8.43" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction


Prologue






First Strike



Knowledge is Power



And He Shall Purify



Unodir






A Constant Tension



The Genoa Project



The Next Generation



The China Experiment



Able Danger



"You Guys Will Go to Jail"






Echo



A New Manhattan Project



The Bag



All Hands on Deck



Call to Arms



Feed the Bag



Ships Passing in the Night



Full Steam Ahead



The Unraveling



Going Black






Basketball



Resurrection



The Breakthrough



Exposed



Reasonable Beliefs



Betrayal



Bojinka II



Inherit the Winds



Ascension



Renegade


Epilogue


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index