Today’s National Security Agency may be the largest, most costly, & most technologically advanced spy corporation the world offers ever known. It is also the most intrusive, secretly filtering an incredible number of calls and e-mails an hour in america and all over the world. Half a million people live on its watch list, and the number grows from the thousands on a monthly basis. Has America become a surveillance state?

In The Shadow Factory, Wayne Bamford, the foremost expert on the Country wide Security Agency, charts its transformation since 9/11, as the renowned code breakers turned their ears away from outside enemies, like the Soviet Union, and inward to enemies whose communications increasingly crisscross America.

Fast-paced and riveting, The Shadow Factory is about a global unseen by Us citizens without the highest security clearances. But it is a global in which even their most seductive whispers may no longer be private.