The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America’s Most Secret Intelligence Organization Audiobook (Free)

With this remarkable tour de force of investigative reporting, James Bamford exposes the inner workings of America’s largest, most secretive, and arguably most intrusive intelligence agency. The NSA offers long eluded open public scrutiny, but The Puzzle Palace penetrates its huge network of power and unmasks the people who control it, often with shocking disregard for the law. So sensitive was the information uncovered the agency twice attemptedto suppress the book, threatened the author with prosecution, as well as raided one of the libraries he utilized. This is a brilliant account of the utilization and mistreatment of technological espionage.