Although the author harbors strong political prejudices, try to overlook occasional eruptions and focus on what it worthwhile in the book. He looks at different aspects of security in the USA in each of ten chapters. It is interesting and eye-opening. This is not a must-read, but it is a nice to have. An index would have been nice. The major bits of info here are the emasculation of DHA aborning, the likelihood that a bio or chemical attack will have catastrophic effects on the economy, and that More...

Pointless fear-mongering about the ills of technology. The Nazi, Russian, East German, Cambodian, and Chinese secret police forces managed to have very effective intelligence collection methods without spy satellites or the internet.

The rise of a police state has much more to do with the social and political climates of the time than it does to do with the technology available.