Status
Available
Collection
Publication
Back Bay Books (2012), Edition: Reprint, 368 pages
Description
Describes the enormous, top-secret, invisible universe created by the government after 9/11 and describes why the system in place to keep us safe may actually be putting us in greater danger.
User reviews
LibraryThing member ohernaes
Documents the gross post 9/11 build-up of the American intelligence sector. Topics that stand out are the unplannedness of the whole ("information if useless if you can't make connections"), the general waste of resouces, the disregard for privacy and absence of rules of what information and on
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whom can be gathered, the revolving doors/corruption between the official security sector and private contractors, all the way from top management and down, and the failure to secure the gathered data properly. Show Less
LibraryThing member kencf0618
Old news now. Useful as background.
Language
Original language
English