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lightreads) wrote2019-11-19 12:52 pm
lightreads) wrote2019-11-19 12:52 pm
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The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State by Shane Harris
The Watchers
3/5. History of various surveillance programs before and after 9/11, focusing on the politics and personalities more than the methods. Interesting and thorough as these things go, though it goes down a bit of a psychological rabbit hole with John Poindexter (yes, that one, this book actually starts with Iran-Contra for reasons that only become clear later). Still. Worth reading, if only for a reminder of just how bonkers this time period was, which is, in an odd way, comforting.
3/5. History of various surveillance programs before and after 9/11, focusing on the politics and personalities more than the methods. Interesting and thorough as these things go, though it goes down a bit of a psychological rabbit hole with John Poindexter (yes, that one, this book actually starts with Iran-Contra for reasons that only become clear later). Still. Worth reading, if only for a reminder of just how bonkers this time period was, which is, in an odd way, comforting.