Reflections on an NSA Career, A mini-book

Monday, January 20th, 2025

When I first wrote Are You Listening?, I wondered what to do with the other less-relevant information. Are You Listening is a book about leadership, but what about the inside look at the NSA? What about they spying controversies? What about Snowden, abuse, and misconduct that I expect people would be interested to see?

In the end, I decided to separate it out into this mini-book, free with signup to my mailing list for updates on the book (you can sign up here, below, or in the column to the right). To give people an idea of what's in the book, here are the first 10 pages as a preview:

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Check out the outline for a peek at the book's contents:

• Reflections on an NSA Career2
• The Good Stuff3
  • Providing an outlet3
  • Time and Schedule4
  • Opportunities to Travel5
  • Opportunities to Teach5
  • Living There6
  • Favorite moments6
    • ACLU Pizza Palace6
    • Coffee with a Criminal7
    • Motivational Speakers7
• Domestic spying9
  • Bush’s Warrantless Wiretapping Scandal9
  • The Summer of Snowden10
  • Ignore it… it will go away11
  • How the Agency should have responded12
  • Employee Response13
  • The Agency’s Internal Response14
  • Was Snowden right?16
    • “The NSA is collecting data on every American”16
    • “The NSA is out of control”16
    • “Illegal or not, it’s still wrong”17
  • Snowden. Hero or Foe?19
  • The Post-Snowden NSA19
  • He Who Must Not Be Named19
  • The Second-Class Citizens of the NSA21
  • Oversight Done Right22
  • Preventing abuse with people23
  • Trained to report24
  • Empowered to report25
• Storytime!33
  • Pulling my clearance33
  • The Shed33
  • The Discs34
  • The Professor34
  • The Post35
  • The “Investigation”35
  • The “Decision”36
  • The Appeal39
  • The Fallout40
  • The Hope40
  • Competence and Passports41
• In Summary42

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