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BOOK: "The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State" by Shane Harris
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In his new book "The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State", author Shane Harris lays out the U.S. government's real-life efforts to see and hear more in the face of growing terrorist threats. He pays particular attention to Total Information Awareness (TIA), a post-9/11 research project spearheaded by John Poindexter, once President Ronald Reagan's National Security Adviser adviser.
An editorial review by Publishers Weekly, which summarizes the plot of the book, can be found on Amazon.com.
The review commends Harris' book as an "informative and dramatic narrative."
Author Shane Harris was interviewed by TIME Magazine contributor Alexandra Silver about Poindexter, the fate of TIA and the state of surveillance in America.
In the interview, Harris says the rise of the American surveillance state can be traced back to the Beirut terrorists attacks against Americans in 1983, which he calls an early "9/11".
He says:
"There were all of these clues about terrorist attacks against the Americans in Lebanon that the intelligence community had failed to piece together. When I realized that this was sort of the beginning of suicidal terrorism, and there had been a failure to connect the dots, I thought, This is 9/11, only in 1983. This theme keeps repeating, so from the standpoint of a narrative, I realized you have to start in 1983 to understand how far back this actually goes and to know that what we know of as the "war on terror" is not something that began after 9/11. It really began almost 25 years ago."
Read the interview in TIME Magazine...
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