The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State

by Harris, Shane

• ISBN13: 9780143118909
• ISBN10: 0143118900
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-25
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Prologue	p. 9
First Strike	p. 15
Knowledge is Power	p. 27
And He Shall Purify	p. 36
Unodir	p. 50
A Constant Tension	p. 71
The Genoa Project	p. 81
The Next Generation	p. 95
The China Experiment	p. 104
Able Danger	p. 115
"You Guys Will Go to Jail"	p. 129
Echo	p. 139
A New Manhattan Project	p. 144
The Bag	p. 155
All Hands on Deck	p. 172
Call to Arms	p. 184
Feed the Bag	p. 199
Ships Passing in the Night	p. 210
Full Steam Ahead	p. 214
The Unraveling	p. 230
Going Black	p. 236
Basketball	p. 251
Resurrection	p. 254
The Breakthrough	p. 264
Exposed	p. 271
Reasonable Beliefs	p. 282
Betrayal	p. 290
Bojinka II	p. 302
Inherit the Winds	p. 315
Ascension	p. 322
Renegade	p. 344
Epilogue	p. 357
Afterword	p. 367
Acknowledgments	p. 373
Notes	p. 375
Index	p. 409
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