[Spooks] chatter

[ed]

while somewhat off-topic, this new book may interest list members.

-ed


BOOK: CHATTER

What is a citizen permitted to know about the global network of
electronic surveillance?  What more can he or she hope to
discover?

These sorts of questions form the narrative backbone of a rather
entertaining new book called "Chatter: Dispatches from the
Secret World of Global Eavesdropping" by Patrick Radden Keefe
(Random House, February 2005).

Nicely and intelligently written, Chatter looks into the
far-flung system of intelligence collection facilities, the
bureaucrats who operate them, the citizens who obsess over them
(Secrecy News is featured in a flattering light), and the
secrecy system that shields them.  See:

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?1400060346