Chatter

Uncovering the Echelon Surveillance Network and the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping

Pages: 336
Published: 2005
Language: English

This book delves into the clandestine operations of the American intelligence community and its connections to the global surveillance network known as Echelon. It examines the extent to which Americans have unknowingly forfeited their privacy in the pursuit of national security. The author assesses the implications of these secret activities on civil liberties.

Prose complexity: 7/10

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Patrick Radden Keefe

Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of the New York Times bestseller Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, as well as two other books: The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, and Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping. He started contributing to The New Yorker in 2006 and has written articles about the chef and TV host Anthony Bourdain, the...