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Top Secret America: The Rise Of The New American Security State (2011)

by Dana Priest(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0316182214 (ISBN13: 9780316182218)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Little, Brown and Company

review 1: This book was very slow reading, and many times I wanted to quit reading it. However, the topic is an important one, and, I feel every American should read it. Can we as a nation afford the continued exponential growth of information gathering and secrecy? What happens when there is too much information to deal with effectively? This book makes you think about these things. Unfortunately there is too much filler material about government buildings, and how information for the book was obtained. It was this filler material that made me want to give up on it.
review 2: Detailed account of how the security apparatus has grown in the U.S. since 9/11. Much of the growth took place rapidly with lots of duplication, waste, overreach and not much thought as to how this... more may affect our liberty and freedom. The authors detail the new technology developed and the way it is used to track terrorists, and in some or many cases, US citizens and others the government decides they want to track. It would be interesting to see how the authors would add to this based on the Snowden documents which are being released. These documents detail reading the President of Brazil's emails, tapping US civilians phones and data mining of US cell phone companies and social media sites. The authors ask how much of our freedom, liberty and privacy are we willing to give up for security and safety, along with the question of how much are we willing to pay for our security. They suggest most Americans have given little thought to either question. The lack of questioning and the willingness to accept the burgeoning security apparatus are, they argue, a danger to democracy. less

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