The Devil Inside the Beltway
The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach Into Cybersecurity, Medicine and Small Business
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Small business owner Michael J. Daugherty is fighting back against US Government's sinister surveillance tactics in his audiobook, The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach into Cybersecurity, Medicine, and Small Business. During the past decade the US Government has teamed with private enterprise and academia to attack American small business by surveilling networks and picking up Americans' files they considered to be "shared" and "vulnerable."
They used that information to expand and grow more than one government agency. Michael J. Daugherty, the small business owner who created LabMD, a cancer detection center in Atlanta, Georgia, became a victim of these governmental practices. What began with the unauthorized but government-funded procurement of medical data for 9000+ patients from his medical laboratory turned into a government supported, financially draining, extortion attempt.
Taking you inside his five-year journey of government power grabs and intimidation tactics, Daugherty backs his riveting true story with engaging detail, including Congressional testimony, press releases, e-mails, letters and FOIA documents. But for the fact that everything in the audiobook really happened, it's like a brilliant political thriller. The cronies, lawyers, politicians and bullies...they are all right here in this stinging indictment.
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Seasoned CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson reveals how she has been electronically surveilled while digging deep into the Obama Administration and its scandals, and offers an incisive critique of her industry and the shrinking role of investigative journalism in today's media.
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Great Reporting
- By Michael G. Boyd on 12-30-14
By: Sharyl Attkisson
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Marine One
- By: James W. Huston
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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After the presidents' helicopter, Marine One, goes down in a brutal thunderstorm, the government blames the European manufacturer of the helicopter, accusing them of killing the president. Senate investigations and Justice Department accusations multiply as Mike Nolan, a Marine Corps reserve helicopter pilot and trial attorney in civilian life, is hired to defend the company from the criminal investigations and a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the most notorious lawyer in America.
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GRIPPING, FAST MOVING, EXCELLENT WRITING, CLEAN
- By DECLO 68 on 10-05-14
By: James W. Huston
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Kingpin
- How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
- By: Kevin Poulsen
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: Someone - some brilliant, audacious crook - had just staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars from the U.S. economy. The FBI rushed to launch an ambitious undercover operation aimed at tracking down this new kingpin. Other agencies around the world deployed dozens of moles and double agents.
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This should be a movie
- By Hijenks on 05-19-15
By: Kevin Poulsen
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Class Action
- The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law
- By: Clara Bingham, Laura Leedy Gansler
- Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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When the local iron mine began hiring women in 1975, Lois Jenson, a single mother on welfare, didn't think twice about accepting the grueling but well-paid job. What she hadn't considered was that she was entering a male-dominated society that fiercely resisted the inclusion of women, a prejudice born out in the brutal harassment of every female miner.
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infuriating
- By Ron on 05-20-06
By: Clara Bingham, and others
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The Last of the President's Men
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Campbell Scott
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book, The Last of the President's Men. Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation.
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A Disturbing portrayal of Nixon
- By Jean on 11-17-15
By: Bob Woodward
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Beating the Workplace Bully
- A Tactical Guide to Taking Charge
- By: Dr. Lynne Curry
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Christopher Lane
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Bullies aren't limited to the playground. These days, they roam our offices and can be found everywhere from break rooms to boardrooms. They don't steal your lunch money, but they can make your work life a living hell - and even ruin your career. Whether the bully is a boss or a coworker...whether you're the target of manipulation, intimidation, verbal abuse, or deliberate humiliation, Beating the Workplace Bully will show you how to fight back.
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Taking A Stand
- By dreamon2177 on 07-10-16
By: Dr. Lynne Curry
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Backstabbing for Beginners
- My Crash Course in International Diplomacy
- By: Michael Soussan
- Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ben Kingsley and Theo James, the gripping true story of a young program coordinator at the United Nations who stumbles upon a conspiracy involving Iraq's oil reserves. "What made this episode in our collective history possible was not so much the lies we told one another, but the lies we told ourselves". Breaking a conspiracy of silence that had prevailed for years, Soussan sparked an unprecedented corruption probe into the Oil-for-Food program.
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Eye-opener history made entertaining
- By Shelly Dee on 12-20-16
By: Michael Soussan
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Exposure
- Inside the Olympus Scandal: How I Went from CEO to Whistleblower
- By: Michael Woodford
- Narrated by: Michael Woodford
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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When Michael Woodford was made president of Olympus - the company to which he had dedicated thirty years of his career - he became the first Westerner ever to climb the ranks of one of Japan’s corporate giants. Some wondered at the appointment - how could a gaijin who didn’t even speak Japanese understand how to run a Japanese company? But within months Woodford had gained the confidence of most of his colleagues and shareholders.
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Starts off great, then gets stupid
- By Happy Mountain on 10-21-21
By: Michael Woodford
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Bad City
- Peril and Power in the City of Angels
- By: Paul Pringle
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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On a cool, overcast afternoon in April 2016, a salacious tip arrived at the L.A. Times that reporter Paul Pringle thought should have taken, at most, a few weeks to check out: a drug overdose at a fancy hotel involving one of the University of Southern California’s shiniest stars—Dr. Carmen Puliafito, the head of the prestigious medical school. Pringle, who’d long done battle with USC and its almost impenetrable culture of silence, knew reporting the story wouldn’t be a walk in the park. USC is the largest private employer in the city of L.A., and it casts a long shadow.
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Wow.
- By Anna on 07-22-22
By: Paul Pringle
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Judgment Calls
- Samantha Kincaid, Book 1
- By: Alafair Burke
- Narrated by: Betty Bobbitt
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid walks into her office in Portland's Drug and Vice Division one morning to find the sergeant of the police bureau's vice unit waiting for her. A 13-year-old girl has been brutally attacked and left for dead on the city's outskirts. Given the lack of evidence, most lawyers would settle for an assault charge; Samantha, unnerved by the viciousness of the crime, decides to go for attempted murder.
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Well read above average book
- By Rajesh on 06-24-05
By: Alafair Burke
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- pems-integ-tests
- 06-01-16
Frightening
A must read for every patriotic American. A real page turner....unfortunately about our government destroying lives and businesses.
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- D.R. Alarcon
- 02-28-18
And it is as deep a rabbit hole we have imagined
An amazingly profound look at how our government agencies are power hungry, vengefull and parasitic.
Well written and kept my attention. God bless those willing to fight the good fight against the leviathan.
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- John McDonald
- 03-20-19
Government Citizen Abuse
How the FTC broke laws and harassed a company trying to end cancer. Government punishes the victim not the criminal that hacked patients records using malware.
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- Theresa
- 04-18-15
One of the most frustrating books I have heard
I sincerely hope that Mr. Daugherty listened to the performance of this book and for his sake that the tone was an accurate representation of his words. If not, Mr. Teunis did him a great disservice, as by the time the book was over I had begun to think I had never heard such a self-righteous, arrogant and contrary human being as I had just been subjected to.
Having said that there were some decent points in this book and as an IT professional I can see where some of the challenges Mr. Daugherty faced could be helpful to others before they are put in a similar situation. There are some good reminders about how important policy adherence and process adherence is, and also some decent background on how not to respond if you ever get a similar letter from the FTC.
Still, misbehavior or even flat out CYA on the part of the FTC notwithstanding, with each chapter I kept thinking how short-sightedness, and an arrogance that is unmatched by any I have seen before, brought about most of the problems Mr. Daugherty faced once the "incident" occurred. Time after time he responded to what seemed not unreasonable requests with stubborn obstructive behavior that probably cost him and his company thousands of dollars and years of unnecessary suffering.
I do understand the underlying point Mr. Daugherty was trying to make regarding the "right" of anyone to access another's data under any circumstance's and in a perfect world his argument would be valid. But in a world subject to real evil players it was an unrealistic and naïve outlook to think the security experts who exposed the file were the only folks who had the technology or the incentive to go looking for unsecured networks and confidential files. Had they not exposed the threat when they did who knows when or if the unsecured workstation would have ever been discovered by the company and the untold damage that might have been done by the bad guys once the "pot of gold" was discovered and was available for mining.
In the end I certainly came away from the book thinking Mr. Daugherty was much more concerned with his business and his pride than he ever was with his customer data or the possible harm that he might have facilitated by not acting on the data loss immediately and notifying his customers.
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