James Bamford is the author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets, books about the National Security Agency. He is visiting Berkeley in the School of Public Policy, and gave a talk entitled "Intelligence Failures that Led to the September 11th Attacks." Bamford [is] working on a new book, A Killing Sleep: Anatomy of America's Greatest Intelligence Failure. From the summary, it appears Bamford gave a history of the NSA. It's a little difficult to distinguish Bamford's remarks from the editorial comments of the summarizer. Among the more insightful comments: "[T]oday's press is actually getting worse. Before Sept. 11, all the coverage was on Gary Condit and on shark attacks, in spite of the fact that there are fewer shark attacks every year. Sells papers." | 
