James Bamford
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"V. James Bamford" is an American bestselling author and journalist noted for his writing about United States intelligence agency/intelligence agencies, especially the National Security Agency (NSA). Bamford has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, as a distinguished visiting professor and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine/Harper's, and many other publications. In 2006, he won the National Magazine Award/National Magazine Award for Reporting for his article, "The Man Who Sold The War", published in Rolling Stone.

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He would have been on the bottom of my list in terms of suspects.

He was very anti-Communist in his appearance, ... He would always be talking about how we should be doing more stories about the Communist menace and communist influence and Russian influence.

Every time a Soviet plane took off, NSA knew about it. It was pretty easy to track. Now they have to track people who use cell phones, pay phones and calling cards ... You have to be a bit optimistic to think it will work.

Clearly the flag was there, ... because the intercepts show that the helicopter pilots saw it immediately, before they ever even got up to the ship.

If you kill Trailblazer, you might as well kill NSA. Gen. Alexander has no choice but to find a way to make it work.

Here the transcripts are saying, 'Well, you know, there may be people speaking English on this ship,' ... Why would you say that if it's an Egyptian ship, carrying horses?

He'd have a natural interest in what a Russian spymaster had to say, ... It turned out later that he was the person Hanssen originally sent his letter to apply for his job at the KGB.

It produces, probably produces, 80 percent of the intelligence the United States uses, ... The Puzzle Palace.

He was extremely outwardly religious. He was always trying to get me to go with him to one of these sessions of Opus Dei, which is a sort of a semi-secretive, conservative branch of the Catholic Church.