Catalog Search Results
Showing Results using Keyword index
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation.
It begins in 1971 in an America being split...
It begins in 1971 in an America being split...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections--a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Howley's subjects face a challenge new to history: they are imprisoned by their past selves, trapped for as long as the Internet endures. A soap opera...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Investigative reporter for The Guardian and bestselling author Glenn Greenwald, provides an in-depth look into the NSA scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself, this book explores the extraordinary cooperation between private industry and the NSA, and the far-reaching consequences of the government's surveillance...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The author forces readers to confront fundamental questions about the balance between free speech and state secrecy, and between individual rights and corporate power as he traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of riveting cases.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This is the first full account of the cypherpunks who aim to free the world's information, from the "Forbes" reporter whose work has traced their history and future, with unrivaled access to such major players as Julian Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and a shadowy Wikileaks engineer.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A magisterial exploration of whistleblowing in America, from the Revolutionary War to the Trump era. Misconduct by those in high places is always dangerous to reveal. Whistleblowers thus face conflicting impulses: by challenging and exposing transgressions by the powerful, they perform a vital public service-yet they always suffer for it. This episodic history brings to light how whistleblowing, an important but unrecognized cousin of civil disobedience,...
10) Permanent record
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A former WorldCom employee chronicles her life from her Mississippi upbringing to a high-level position at WorldCom, discussing the discovery of fraud in her company's dealings and the decision-making process that led her to become a whistleblower.
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"IT BEGAN WITH A TANTALIZING, ANONYMOUS EMAIL: "I AM A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY." What followed was the most spectacular intelligence breach ever, brought about by one extraordinary man. Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National Security Agency when he shocked the world by exposing the near-universal mass surveillance programs of the United States government. His whistleblowing has shaken the leaders...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
"After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, John Dodson pulled bodies out of the wreckage at the Pentagon. In 2007, following the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech, John Dodson walked through the classrooms, heartbroken, to cover up the bodies of the victims. Then came Arizona. The American border. Ten days before Christmas, 2010, ATF agent John Dodson awoke to the news he had dreaded every day as a member of the elite team called the Group...
Author
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
""Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military. he is also telling us how to save ourselves."--Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker "Whistleblower at the CIA offers a fascinating glimpse into the secret, behind-the-scenes world of U.S. intelligence. Melvin A. Goodman's first-person account of the systematic manipulation of intelligence at the CIA underscores why whistleblowing...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request