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Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State : A Journey Through the Deep State / Kerry Howley.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, March 21, 2023Copyright date: © 2023Edition: First editionDescription: 233 pages 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
  • Any audience
ISBN:
  • 9780525655497
  • 9780525565048
Other title:
  • Journey Through the Deep State
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Bottoms up and the devil laughsDDC classification:
  • 352.3/79 23/eng/20220809
LOC classification:
  • JF1525.S4 H69 2023
Contents:
A note on walls -- Surveillance is made of dogs -- Imaginary friends -- You don't have permission -- Zero hippo -- You don't have that many -- Ten puppies -- A very hard case -- The time for pardons -- It could be your sister -- Something has to be done -- Our house -- Consider me involved.
Summary: "In Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, acclaimed essayist and author Kerry Howley reveals the inner workings of the U.S. intelligence community, uncovering a shadow America more fascinating and more unsettling than one could imagine. At the heart of her narrative, which encompasses "American Taliban" John Walker Lind, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden, is a woman named Reality Winner. Reality becomes a crypto linguist for a government drone program, eavesdropping on private conversations until she hears information that she can no longer keep secret. Her decision to act on this knowledge leads to a disturbing series of events that ends with Winner sentenced to years in prison."--. Provided by publisher.
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Books John Tomay Memorial Library ANF 347.73 HOW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31030100301472

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-233)

A note on walls -- Surveillance is made of dogs -- Imaginary friends -- You don't have permission -- Zero hippo -- You don't have that many -- Ten puppies -- A very hard case -- The time for pardons -- It could be your sister -- Something has to be done -- Our house -- Consider me involved.

"In Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, acclaimed essayist and author Kerry Howley reveals the inner workings of the U.S. intelligence community, uncovering a shadow America more fascinating and more unsettling than one could imagine. At the heart of her narrative, which encompasses "American Taliban" John Walker Lind, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden, is a woman named Reality Winner. Reality becomes a crypto linguist for a government drone program, eavesdropping on private conversations until she hears information that she can no longer keep secret. Her decision to act on this knowledge leads to a disturbing series of events that ends with Winner sentenced to years in prison."--. Provided by publisher.

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