The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America's Political Intelligence SystemThis volume provides documentation of more than half a century of government snooping into the private affairs of business, public interest organizations, and dissenters and radicals of every stripe. It explains why the American government spies on its citizens and how this spying has shaped American public life. |
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