James Bamford

James Bamford
James Bamford
James Bamford
BornJames Bamford
(1946-09-15) September 15, 1946 (age 77)
Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
OccupationAuthor, Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker
NationalityAmerican
Education
    • Suffolk University Law School (Juris Doctor degree)
    • University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbornne (Diploma, International and Comparative Law)
    • Yale Law School (Fellowship)
GenreAuthority on the United States intelligence agencies
Notable works
    • The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency (1982)
    • Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency (2001)
    • A Pretext For War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies (2005)
    • The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America (2008)
Notable awards
  • National Magazine Award for Reporting
  • Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Investigative Journalism
  • Investigative Reporters and Editors Gold Medal
  • Overseas Press Club Award for Excellence
  • Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Award

James Bamford (born September 15, 1946) is an American author, journalist and documentary producer noted for his writing about United States intelligence agencies, especially the National Security Agency (NSA).[1] The New York Times has called him "the nation's premier journalist on the subject of the National Security Agency" [2] and The New Yorker named him "the NSA's chief chronicler."[3]

Bamford has taught at the University of California, Berkeley as a distinguished visiting professor and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Harper's, and many other publications.

In 2006, he won the National Magazine Award for Reporting[4] for his writing on the war in Iraq published in Rolling Stone.

He is also an Emmy nominated documentary producer for PBS and spent a decade as the Washington investigative producer for ABC's World News Tonight.

In 2015 he became the national security columnist for Foreign Policy magazine[5] and he also writes for The New Republic. His book, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, became a New York Times bestseller and was named by The Washington Post as one of "The Best Books of the Year."[6]

It is the third in a trilogy by Bamford on the NSA, following The Puzzle Palace (1982) and Body of Secrets (2001), also New York Times bestsellers. His latest book is Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence (2023).

  1. ^ Scott Shane (October 10, 2008). "Decades on the Trail of a Shadowy Agency". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-03-08. For 30 years, on a sometimes lonely hunt, James Bamford has pursued that great white whale of American intelligence, the National Security Agency. It has been a jarring ride at times.
  2. ^ Shane, Scott (2008-10-10). "James Bamford and the N.S.A.: Decades of Trailing a Shadowing". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
  3. ^ Nazaryan, Alexander (June 10, 2013). "The NSA's Chief Chronicler". NewYorker.com.
  4. ^ "Winners and Finalists Database | ASME". asme.magazine.org. Archived from the original on 2018-12-28. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
  5. ^ "Search Results for "James Bamford" – Foreign Policy". Retrieved 2018-12-30.
  6. ^ Noble, Barnes &. "Washington Post Best Nonfiction of 2008->The War on Terror, Washington Post Best Books of 2008, Books, $10 - $25". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 2018-12-28.

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