James Bamford

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James Bamford (born September 24, 1946) is an American bestselling author and journalist who writes about United States intelligence agencies. He was raised in Natick, Massachusetts, spent three years in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War, and used the GI Bill to earn his law degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.

Mr. Bamford's first book, "The Puzzle Palace" (1982), was the first book published about the National Security Agency (NSA). The book was researched through extensive use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). As a super-secret agency, the NSA was quite concerned about their unveiling to the world and accordingly, the government acted to stop publication.Fact|date=October 2008 He published "Body of Secrets" (also about the NSA, 2001), and "A Pretext for War" (2004). Bamford lectures nationally and was a distinguished visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He also spent nearly a decade as the Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight.

In 2006, he received the National Magazine Award for Reporting, the top prize in magazine writing.

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Articles

References

* Kahn, David. The Codebreakers ISBN 0-684-83130-9
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/features/bamford/author.html Random House: James Bamford]

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External links

By Bamford

* [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/bamfordreport.html Report on a James Bamford talk at Berkeley] , "Lew Rockwell.com", February 11, 2002.
* James Bamford. [http://cryptome.org/bamford-fisc.htm Washington Bends the Rules] , "New York Times", August 27, 2002.
* Scott Horton (editor). [http://www.weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=150 James Bamford's interviews] , "The Weekend Interview Show". December 3 2005
* James Bamford. [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8798997?rnd=1133741587812&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1069 The Man Who Sold the War] , "Rolling Stone Magazine", November 17, 2005.

About Bamford

* [http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=james_bamford Profile of James Bamford] , "Center for Cooperative Research".
* Kevin Zeese. [http://democracyrising.us/content/view/226/164/ James Bamford: Inventing a Pretext for War] , "Democracy Rising", May 23, 2005.
* Steve Clemons. [http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001098.html John Rendon and the U.S. propaganda] , "The Washington Note", November 21, 2005.
* Amy Goodman. [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/21/1516257 John Rendon, Bush's General in the Propaganda War] , "Democracy Now", November 21, 2005.
* Robert Stockmann. [http://crashrecovery.org/rendon/ The Infowar Techniques of the Rendon Group: a possible theory] , "crashrecovery.org", August 6, 2005.
* William Sweet. [http://www.prx.org/pieces/9344 NSA Spying & FISA Court] , "IEEE Spectrum Radio Interview", February 20, 2006.
* Jenny Asarnow. [http://www.kuow.org/mp3high/m3u/SpeakersForum/SpeakersForum20070419.m3u James Bamford] KUOW-FM Speaker's Forum April 19 2007
* [http://archive.thespaceshow.com/shows/888-BWB-2008-02-09.mp3 James Bamford] first aired February 9 2008