| James Bamford  AKA V. James Bamford
Born: c. 1946
Birthplace: Atlantic City, NJ
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Puzzle Palace Military service: US Navy Author of The Puzzle Palace, the definitive book on the NSA, which was published under dire threat in 1982 from the NSA. Attended New Jersey High School in 1964, then served in Vietnam. Law degree from Suffolk University Law School, 1975.
For Bamford, there is only black and white when it comes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a 1978 law that specifically requires warrants for any NSA wiretapping of U.S. citizens. "If you want to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens, you go to court. If you don't, you go to jail," Bamford says. "If you want to change the law, you go to Congress."
High School: New Jersey High School (1964)
University: Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Law School: JD, Suffolk University, Boston, MA (1975)
Professor: UC Berkeley
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World News Tonight Washington investigative producer (1989-98)
Author of books:
The Puzzle Palace: A Report on NSA, America's Most Secret Agency (1982, nonfiction)
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency (2001, nonfiction)
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies (2004, nonfiction)
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