The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization

Product Description MP3 CD Format In this remarkable tour de force of investigative reporting, James Bamford exposes the inner workings of America's largest, most secretive, and arguably most intrusive intelligence agency. The NSA has long eluded public scrutiny, but The Puzzle Palace penetrates its vast network of power and unmasks the people who control it, often with shocking disregard for the law. So sensitive was the information uncovered that the agency twice attempted to suppress the book, threatened the author with prosecution, and even raided one of the libraries he used. This is a brilliant account of the use and abuse of technological espionage. Review "There have been glimpses inside the NSA before, but until now no one has published a comprehensive and detailed report on the agency...Mr. Bamford has emerged with everything except the combination to the director's safe."-- "New York Times Book Review" About the Author James Bamford is the author of Body of Secrets, The Puzzle Palace, and A Pretext for War, and has written on national security for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. His Rolling Stone article The Man Who Sold the War won the 2006 National Magazine Award for reporting. Formerly the Washington investigative producer for ABCs World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and a distinguished visiting professor at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, he lives in Washington, DC.

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