James Bamford is an award-winning investigative journalist, bestselling author and national security expert. With decades of experience covering intelligence, espionage and global conflict, he has written extensively for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Foreign Policy and Wired, among others. A former investigative producer for ABC News and an Emmy-nominated PBS documentarian, Bamford has won the prestigious National Magazine Award for Reporting. His books, including The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets, have been acclaimed as definitive works on intelligence and security.