{"id":2397,"date":"2014-09-16T14:02:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T18:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2020-02-21T16:29:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T21:29:19","slug":"james-bamford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/2014-event\/james-bamford\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bamford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone’s a Target: How America Lost Control of the National Security Agency, and Can It Be Reined In?<\/em><\/p>\n

James Bamford<\/strong> is an author and investigative journalist best known for his writing about U.S. intelligence agencies, particularly the National Security Agency (NSA). He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic,<\/em> and Wired<\/em>. Bamford was an intelligence analyst during the Vietnam War, and earned a J.D. degree from Suffolk University Law School. In 1982, he released The Puzzle Palace,<\/em> the first major book on the NSA. The Shadow Factory,<\/em> published in 2008, was a New York Times best-seller. The book chronicles the NSA’s new role in post-9\/11 America.<\/p>\n

Bamford has been a distinguished visiting professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, and was recently awarded a Poyner Fellowship at Yale Law School. He is currently working on a new documentary for PBS<\/em> and BBC.<\/em><\/p>\n

About this Lecture<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now as new and astonishing revelations about NSA continue to appear almost daily, Bamford takes a close look at the agency\u2014 an agency created in absolute secrecy with even Congress kept in the dark\u2014and how it went out of control. From secretly collecting everyone’s telephone data (and storing it for five years) on the theory that everyone who can pick up a phone is a possible criminal, to bugging the personal cell phones of friendly allied leaders, to keeping track of visits to porn sites of innocent Americans to secretly destroy their reputations, the NSA has gone far beyond what anyone could have imagined. Fresh back from visits to Glenn Greenwald in Rio and Laura Poitras in Berlin, the only two people in control of Edward Snowden’s complete set of documents\u2014 estimated by the NSA to be up to 1.7 million pages\u2014Bamford offers his thoughts on Snowden, privacy, and whether the agency can ever be reigned back in.<\/p>\n\n\n