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A Cultural History of Art Bell

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James Bamford

James Bamford

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James Bamford is an investigative journalist and author recognized as the foremost authority on the National Security Agency (NSA), having written the first comprehensive account of the secretive agency in The Puzzle Palace and continued exposing intelligence community operations in subsequent works. As a guest on late-night radio, his deeply researched books on government surveillance, signals intelligence, and the hidden machinery of American national security have informed and alarmed audiences for decades.

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July 31, 2004: A Pretext for War - James Bamford

Jul 31, 2004
2h 52m
Art Bell interviews James Bamford, bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets, about his new book A Pretext for War. Bamford describes how the Bush administration entered office with a predetermined agenda to attack Iraq, driven by both personal animosity toward Saddam Hussein and the ideological go...