17 Facts About James Bamford

James Bamford was born on September 15,1946 and is an American author, journalist and documentary producer noted for his writing about United States intelligence agencies, especially the National Security Agency.

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

James Bamford was born on September 15,1946, in Atlantic City, New Jersey and raised in Natick, Massachusetts.

James Bamford testified about the program in a closed hearing before the Church Committee, the congressional investigation that led to sweeping reforms of US intelligence abuses in the 1970s.

When James Bamford refused, he was threatened with prosecution under the Espionage Act.

At the library, Bamford had access to the private papers of Marshall S Carter, a former director of the NSA whom he had interviewed.

In 2001, James Bamford released Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret NSA, From the Cold War to the Dawn of a New Century.

In 2002, during the lead up to the war in Iraq, James Bamford was one of the few journalists arguing that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and therefore the country should not go to war.

James Bamford made his arguments on the editorial pages of USA Today where he was a member of the newspaper's Board of Contributors.

However, James Bamford was able to show that all the materials the government claimed to be classified were actually freely available in the public domain, and placed there by the government itself.

Additionally, James Bamford has testified as an expert witness on intelligence issues before committees of the Senate and House of Representatives as well as the European Parliament in Brussels and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

James Bamford has been a guest lecturer at the Central Intelligence Agency's Senior Intelligence Fellows Program, the National Security Agency's National Cryptologic School, the Defense Intelligence Agency's Joint Military Intelligence College, the Pentagon's National Defense University and the Director of National Intelligence's National Counterintelligence Executive.

James Bamford completed a circumnavigation of the surface of the earth, crossing every meridian of longitude by land and sea.

James Bamford spoke on behalf of Liberty survivors at a 2004 US State Department symposium that was convened in about the Six-Day War in response to the findings of the 2003 Moorer Commission and the 2004 release of Captain Ward Boston's affidavit pertaining to the USS Liberty incident.

James Bamford spoke alongside Marc J Susser, A Jay Cristol, and Michael B Oren.

James Bamford dedicates part of this chapter to discussing how US Navy Chief Petty Officer Marvin E Nowicki, a linguist aboard a Navy EC-121 that was flying overhead during the attack, intercepted Israeli communications that seemed to indicate they knew or suspected the ship they were attacking was American.

James Bamford goes on to posit that the motivation for the Israeli attack on the Liberty was to cover-up the Ras Sedr massacre, which occurred the same day.