National security reporters in America are middlemen between the classified world of spy agencies and the public that pays the bills. Their goal is to bring high-stakes, fast-moving stories out of the shadows and then deliver top-notch journalism to a global audience.
Scott Shane covered national security for The New York Times for 15 years and twice shared Pulitzer Prizes with his colleagues. He tells stories of his career, including what happened when he told the Obama White House the Times had a quarter-million secret diplomatic cables; how he felt when a former CIA officer was charged with disclosing classified information to him; how he spent a summer in an oversized high-security closet at the Times, poring over 60,000 National Security Agency documents from Edward Snowden; and how he showed that Russian intelligence had created fake Americans and sprinkled them on Facebook to spout the Russian line. Along the way, he considers a paradox of American government: how secret agencies can operate in a democracy.
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