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Today’s National Security Agency is the largest, most costly, and most technologically advanced spy organization the world has ever known. It is also the most intrusive, secretly filtering millions of phone calls and e-mails an hour in the United States and around the world. Half a million people live on its watch list, and the number grows by the thousands every month. Has America become a surveillance state?
In The Shadow Factory, James...
In The Shadow Factory, James...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A computer whiz takes on the government in defense of the right to privacy. On hearing the National Security Agency has secretly installed a program that can read anyone's e-mail, Ensei Tankado comes up with a program to paralyze it. A conflict ensues and people die.
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U.S. Navy series volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
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A British submarine disappears while on a training mission, and a year later three airplanes are shot down from the sky, one of them carrying the Vice President of the United States. The U.S. Security Advisor suspects that the lost sub is in the hands of a terrorist and has been modified to carry anti-aircraft weaponry.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, acclaimed essayist and author Kerry Howley reveals the inner workings of the U.S. intelligence community, uncovering a shadow America more fascinating and more unsettling than one could imagine. At the heart of her narrative, which encompasses "American Taliban" John Walker Lind, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden, is a woman named Reality Winner. Reality becomes a crypto linguist for a government drone program,...
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Deep black volume 4
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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NSA operative Charlie Dean must infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power and derail a renegade general from acing an election. But things get complicated when Dean and company discover the renegade general's second plot: a nuclear weapon he claims is in the hands of Marxist guerillas.
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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NSA director Theodore Anders has a simple goal: collect every phone call, email, and keystroke tapped on the Internet. He knows unlimited surveillance is the only way to keep America safe. Evelyn Gallagher doesn't care much about any of that. She just wants to keep her head down and manage the NSA's camera network and facial recognition program so she can afford private school for her deaf son, Dash....
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Stone Barrington novels volume 24
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English
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Stone Barrington is called to Bel-Air to oversee an exclusive event that will gather the top echelons of the beau monde: Hollywood starlets, socialites, politicos, billionaires from overseas. It's a task in which Stone has a personal stake, and one that is made all the more pleasurable -- though somewhat more complicated -- with the arrival of two beautiful women with whom he's intimately acquainted. But the grand occasion has also attracted a dangerous...
9) Exegesis
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Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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An artificial intelligence created to retrieve and analyze computer data goes rogue and proceeds to snoop in top secret databanks of the FBI and the National Security Agency. The novel describes its capture and imprisonment and the attempts by its creator, a woman scientist, to free it.
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Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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An investigative reporter for "The Guardian" presents an assessment of the NSA surveillance scandal that has triggered debates over national security and information privacy to explore its alliances and consequences.
12) Bound to danger
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Deadly Ops volume 2
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Signet Eclipse, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A person of interest to the NSA after overhearing two men plotting a terrorist attack and then losing her memory, Maria Cervantes falls under the protection of Agent Cade O'Reilly, a man from her past, who not only wants the memories locked in her mind, but wants to keep her in his life forever.
13) Permanent record
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2019.
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English
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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US governments system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to...
14) Splinter cell
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell volume 0
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Sam Fisher, a splinter cell, or top secret agent for the National Security Agency with the right to steal and kill to preserve the country's freedom, goes after Middle Eastern terrorists who are building a highly destructive weapon and have kidnapped hisdaughter.
15) The spy factory
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PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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This videodisc exposes the hidden, high-tech workings of the world's largest intelligence agency, the National Security Agency (NSA) and a report on the threat to privacy and the effectiveness of high-tech surveillance in the age of terrorism.
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Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow--before more American assets are rounded up and killed. Foreword by Gen. Michael V. Hayden (Retd.), Former Director of NSA & CIA In the late 1970s, the National Security Agency still did not officially exist--those in the know referred to it dryly as the No Such Agency. So why, when NSA engineer Charles Gandy filed for a visa to visit Moscow, did the Russian...
17) Snowden
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An employee of the National Security Agency leaks their illegal surveillance techniques to the public by distributing thousands of classified documents to the press.
18) Citizenfour
Publisher
RADiUS TWC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With unprecedented access, this gripping behind-the-scenes chronicle follows award winning director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's remarkable encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.
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Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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JOHN LUTZ IS . . . “A MAJOR TALENT.” John Lescroart “AMONG THE BEST.” San Diego Union “IN RARE FORM.” The New York Times Book Review THE UNKNOWN SPYOfficially, Thomas Laker is an employee of the NSA. His real employer, known as the Gray Outfit, is not listedanywhere. When a Washington, D.C., insider is killed in a bomb explosion, Laker teams up with cryptographer Ava North on a desperate search for clues. The only thing certain is that...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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From Oscar®-winner Oliver Stone, Snowden is a riveting personal look at one of the most polarizing figures of the twenty-first century, the man responsible for what has been described as the most far-reaching security breach in US intelligence history. This official motion picture screenplay edition, written by Kieran Fitzgerald and Oliver Stone, includes a foreword by David Talbot and dozens of photos from the film.
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