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Book

Bottoms up and the devil laughs : a journey through the deep state

Call Number

  • 352.379 H865 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

Physical Description

233 pages ; 22 cm

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."--

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.

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