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Spies for Hire The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing by Tim Shorrock HCDJ
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- Objectstaat
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Era
- 2000s
- Signed
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- Ex Libris
- No
- Personalized
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- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
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- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Edition
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- ISBN
- 9780743282246
- Book Title
- Spies for Hire : the Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Political Science
- Topic
- General, International Relations / General
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 22.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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InSpies for Hire, investigative reporter Tim Shorrock lifts the veil off a major story the government doesn't want us to know about -- the massive outsourcing of top secret intelligence activities to private-sector contractors.Running spy networks overseas. Tracking down terrorists in the Middle East. Interrogating enemy prisoners. Analyzing data from spy satellites and intercepted phone calls. All of these are vital intelligence tasks that traditionally have been performed by government officials accountable to Congress and the American people. But that is no longer the case.Starting during the Clinton administration, when intelligence budgets were cut drastically and privatization of government services became national policy, and expanding dramatically in the wake of 9/11, when the CIA and other agencies were frantically looking to hire analysts and linguists, the Intelligence Community has been relying more and more on corporations to perform sensitive tasks heretofore considered to be exclusively the work of federal employees. This outsourcing of intelligence activities is now a $50 billion-a-year business that consumes up to 70 percent of the U.S. intelligence budget. And it's a business that the government has tried hard to keep under wraps.Drawing on interviews with key players in the Intelligence-Industrial Complex, contractors' annual reports and public filings with the government, and on-the-spot reporting from intelligence industry conferences and investor briefings,Spies for Hireprovides the first behind-the-scenes look at this new way of spying. Shorrock shows how corporations such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, SAIC, CACI International, and IBM have become full partners with the CIA, the National Security Agency, and the Pentagon in their most sensitive foreign and domestic operations. He explores how this partnership has led to wasteful spending and threatens to erode the privacy protections and congressional oversight so important to American democracy.Shorrock exposes the kinds of spy work the private sector is doing, such as interrogating prisoners in Iraq, managing covert operations, and collaborating with the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans' overseas phone calls and e-mails. And he casts light on a "shadow Intelligence Community" made up of former top intelligence officials who are now employed by companies that do this spy work, such as former CIA directors George Tenet and James Woolsey. Shorrock also traces the rise of Michael McConnell from his days as head of the NSA to being a top executive at Booz Allen Hamilton to returning to government as the nation's chief spymaster.From CIA covert actions to NSA eavesdropping, from Abu Ghraib to Guantánamo, from the Pentagon's techno-driven war in Iraq to the coming global battles over information dominance and control of cyberspace, contractors are doing it all.Spies for Hiregoes behind today's headlines to highlight how private corporations are aiding the growth of a new and frightening national surveillance state.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0743282248
ISBN-13
9780743282246
eBay Product ID (ePID)
62080701
Product Key Features
Book Title
Spies for Hire : the Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, International Relations / General
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Political Science
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
22.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Jk468.I6s49 2008
Reviews
"Tim Shorrock is walking, and mapping, a startling fault line of these crazy days: the way government is outsourcing its most basic functions at a time of peril. Replacing public service with private transactions -- often shadowy and unaccountable -- is what helped bring down Rome. Without fierce scrutiny, and the kind of sharp-eyed disclosures this book provides, it can bring down America. A must read." -- Ron Suskind, author ofThe One Percent Doctrine, "Tim Shorrock's well-researched and convincing book reveals how the intelligence community now subcontracts out most of its work -- 70 percent -- to private-sector companies that inevitably have their own agendas, which may or may not accord with the national interest. By laying out very specifically how all this works, Shorrock has provided a very important service to the country." -- Burton Hersh, author ofThe Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA, "Spies for Hireis an excellent roadmap to the daunting new terrain of U.S. intelligence, in which the explosive growth of intelligence contracting threatens to overwhelm any possibility of independent oversight. In this groundbreaking work, Tim Shorrock explores who has benefitted, who has paid, and why it matters to us all." -- Steven Aftergood,Project on Government Secrecy, Federation of American Scientists, "Tim Shorrock is a digger, and he has penetrated a secret and fascinating world to write a telling and readable book." -- Evan Thomas, editor at large ofNewsweek, author ofSea of Thunder
Copyright Date
2008
Lccn
2008-006900
Dewey Decimal
327.1273
Dewey Edition
22
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