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Image: Aerial View of the NSA/CSS Fort Meade Complex
Fresh Air from WHYY, October 14, 2008 · Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the National Security Agency stepped up its efforts to collect intelligence domestically by filtering millions of phone conversations and e-mail messages. In his new book, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 To The Eavesdropping On America, journalist James Bamford reveals that the ultra-secret agency has half a million people on its watch lists.
Originally published at https://warintel.blogspot.com/2008/10/nsa-watch-list.html on October 14, 2008.