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That was the way it worked in the modern world. Remar hadn’t designed the machine; his job now was simply to run it, and he intended to do his job sensibly and well. Because, in the end, God’s Eye was more than just a name. It was a way of life, and people had gotten used to it.

“Guardian Angel, then?” Remar said.

Senator McQueen nodded. “And I can’t think of a better man to run it than you, General. You know you will have my full support. Thank you for your service, and for your lifelong dedication to keeping the American people safe.”

Remar offered a single, crisp nod. “Thank you, Senator. I’ll continue to do what I can. In fact, I know we all will.”

AUTHOR’S NOTE

I couldn’t have written this book without the benefit of what the public has learned from whistleblower Edward Snowden. Though if I had written it before Snowden’s revelations, I’m confident substantial portions would have sounded like tinfoil-hatted crazy talk.

What we know instead is that most of what I’ve described in these pages is real. And while God’s Eye itself is speculative, anyone familiar with the record of J. Edgar Hoover, the history of COINTELPRO, the allegations of NSA analyst Russell Tice, or the workings of human nature generally will know that even God’s Eye is unlikely to be entirely imaginary.

That said, I know here and there I’ve taken some minor institutional and technical liberties, mostly in the service of moving the plot along more crisply. Apologies for this to the experts (thanked below) who were kind enough to read and correct the manuscript before publication. As for the unintentional errors I’m sure I’ve made despite a fair amount of research and fact-checking, I’ll look forward to hearing from readers, and to posting corrections on my website at http://www.barryeisler.com/mistakes.php.

For more on the facts behind my fiction, I recommend the following:

PROLOGUE

Timeline of NSA revelations

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/multimedia/timeline-edward-snowden-revelations.html

“13 Ways the NSA Has Spied on Us”

http://www.vox.com/2014/7/9/5880403/13-ways-the-nsa-spies-on-us

One of the NSA’s least known and most potent surveillance tools: EO 12333

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/meet-executive-order-12333-the-reagan-rule-that-lets-the-nsa-spy-on-americans/2014/07/18/93d2ac22-0b93-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html

The false and propagandistic notion of an American “oath” of secrecy

http://barryeisler.blogspot.com/2013/06/memo-to-authoritarians-oath-is-to.html

Not so many burning Humvees in Desert Storm, true, but see Day 15 and Day 41

http://armylive.dodlive.mil/index.php/2013/02/operation-desert-storm/

How an undersea oil eruption became a “leak”

http://barryeisler.blogspot.com/2010/07/its-just-leak.html

“Enhanced Interrogation” sounds better in the original German

http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/05/-versch-auml-rfte-vernehmung/228158/

It’s almost as though all these “narcissist” hacks were working off the same set of talking points

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=snowden+a+narcissist&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Speaking of the “narcissism” talking points/projection, don’t miss Jay Rosen on the “Toobin Principle”

http://pressthink.org/2013/08/the-toobin-principle/

“They are using the exact same deny, degrade, distract, disrupt, destroy playbook against [Snowden] that his own revelations show are being used against every other activist.”

https://occupysavvy.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/occupy-independence-forever/

Our august lawmakers solicit the Defense Intelligence Agency for dirt they can use to undermine Snowden’s credibility

https://news.vice.com/article/exclusive-inside-washingtons-quest-to-bring-down-edward-snowden

1.2 million people on US government watch list

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/11/second-leaker-in-us-intelligence-says-glenn-greenwald

CHAPTER 1

US/Turkish intelligence cooperation

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/31/nsaturkeyspiegel/