James Bradford - THE SHADOW AGENCY

At the beginning of the 60ties and 70ties the National Security Agency (NSA) got out of control. The Vietnam war caused the agency to spy on the US people on its own initative. The United States Signals Intelligence Directive 18 (USSID 18) brought back NSA's respect for civilians privacy.
Back then the head of the agency Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden was highly in favor of this directive. That changed when Terror reached the US on september 11th 2001. The land of endless possibilities then started to turn into a surveillance state.

Read the interview with James Bradford who is the main investigator for the subject matter.