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The Watchers

The Rise of America's Surveillance State

Shane Harris - Author

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ISBN 9780143118909 | 432 pages | 25 Jan 2011 | Penguin | 8.26 x 5.23in | 18 - AND UP
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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 constitutionally questionable intrusion into the lives of every citizen.

Introduction
Prologue


ACT ONE

Chapter 1 FIRST STRIKE
Chapter 2 KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
Chapter 3 AND HE SHALL PURIFY
Chapter 4 UNODIR

ACT TWO

Chapter 5 A CONSTANT TENSION
Chapter 6 THE GENOA PROJECT
Chapter 7 THE NEXT GENERATION
Chapter 8 THE CHINA EXPERIMENT
Chapter 9 ABLE DANGER
Chapter 10 ”YOU GUYS WILL GO TO JAIL”

ACT THREE

Chapter 11 ECHO
Chapter 12 A NEW MANHATTAN PROJECT
Chapter 13 THE BAG
Chapter 14 ALL HANDS ON DECK
Chapter 15 CALL TO ARMS
Chapter 16 FEED THE BAG
Chapter 17 SHIPS PASSING IN THE NIGHT
Chapter 18 FULL STEAM AHEAD
Chapter 19 THE UNRAVELING
Chapter 20 GOING BLACK

ACT FOUR

Chapter 21 BASKETBALL
Chapter 22 RESURRECTION
Chapter 23 THE BREAKTHROUGH
Chapter 24 EXPOSED
Chapter 25 REASONABLE BELIEFS
Chapter 26 BETRAYAL
Chapter 27 BOJINKA II
Chapter 28 INHERIT THE WINDS
Chapter 29 ASCENSION
Chapter 30 Renegade


Epilogue
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index


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