Jump to content

User:Cableknitpower/sandbox

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Cableknitpower (talk | contribs) at 01:54, 27 October 2011. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

James Bamford


James Bamford is an expert on the highly secretive National Security Agency. His recent book, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 to The Eavesdropping on America, on which NOVA's "The Spy Factory" was based became a New York Times best-seller and was named by The Washington Post as one of "The Best Books of 2008." It is third in a trilogy by Bamford on the NSA, following The Puzzle Palace (1982) and Body of Secrets (2002), also a New York Times bestseller. Bamford has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley as a distinguished visiting professor and has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Harpers, and many other publications. In 2006, he won the National Magazine Award for Reporting for his piece "The Man Who Sold The War," published in Rolling Stone. A native of Massachusetts, Bamford served as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navyduring the Vietnam War, and he later used the GI Bill to earn his law degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.