The watchers
the rise of America's surveillance state
by Shane Harris · first published 2010
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Using exclusive access to key government sources, Shane Harris chronicles the rise of the American surveillance state over the past 25 years and highlights a dangerous paradox: our government's strategy has made it harder to catch terrorists and easier to spy on the rest of us.
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There's a great book on this, and related Pentagon initiatives called The Watchers: http://www.amazon.com/Watchers-Rise-Americas-Surveillance-St...
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