It’s not often that I listen to the radio…

…And even more rarely do I listen to NPR…

..... But there I was in my car, a few short steps from the entrance of my house… 20mins after I had arrived…. Stranded listening to Terry Gross interview James Bamford. The author of a new book called The Shadow factory a book about the government and eavesdropping on every day American citizens… How telecommunications companies have cloak and dagger style agreements with the government in which they sell our conversations to the NSA. James Bamford claims that secret offices in all major communication industries funnel data into the government’s hands, unrestricted. He claims that or privacy is slipping through our grasps… He describes the Shadow Factory, a plethora of sub-contracted privet companies who sift through the NSA’s ill-gotten goods…information, more importantly our information. These companies operate in immunity, a certain immunity that does not originate anywhere in the constitution….

“The mother of all watch lists is on a dell computer in the basement of the national counter intelligence center, and this computer is not even compatible with the NSA and CIA computer data bases.”

 Listening to the interview gives one a shocking face slap of reality about how our constitutional rights are crumbling under the convince of technology and behind the curtain of national defense.

 I am not entirely sure I will get a chance to read the book, but I know that listening to the interview gave me a look into some of the major themes. I would suggest anyone interested in the subject of surveillance should do the same the interview is available at.. NPR