Two topics are very well done -- the chapter on the USS Liberty,
which was attacked by Israel in 1967, and the information on NSA's computer
systems and Echelon eavesdropping efforts. Less fascinating are the "little
picture" chapters, based on interviews with former NSA globetrotters that
make them seem more like adventurers than compulsive snoops. There's also
a major scoop in this book about a 1962 plan called Operation Northwoods,
which was approved by the Joint Chiefs but never implemented. The Chiefs
wanted to launch a terrorism war against Americans themselves, so that
it could be blamed on Cuba, thereby justifying retaliation. The phrase
"conspiracy to commit treason against the American people" comes to mind,
but for the Pentagon this was just business as usual.
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