August 14, 2025 Book Review: ‘To Lose a War,’ by Jon Lee Anderson Source: Book Review: ‘To Lose a War,’ by Jon Lee Anderson – The New York Times
goodshit Body of Secrets by James Bamford is an investigative history of the NSA that argues the agency became one of the most powerful and least understood institutions in the U.S. national-security system. Its core idea is that signals intelligence has shaped major Cold War and post–Cold War events, often with very little public oversight.
