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ISBN-10: 074355549X
ISBN-13: 9780743555494
Jan 2006
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Abridged
Language: English |
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Synopsis
James Risen's account of policy and power in the George W. Bush administration adds many details to stories already in the press, while introducing shocking new charges, among them that the National Security Agency engaged in domestic surveillance of American citizens. Focusing on the troubled Central Intelligence Agency, Risen exposes several stunningly botched operations, and his portrait of George Tenet shows a director whose priority was "maintaining a strong relationship with the president." Risen also asserts that, prior to the invasion of Iraq, the agency had intelligence indicating that Saddam Hussein had no nuclear program.
Risen places blame on both Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney for the Iraq debacle as well as for the direction the Bush administration is taking. He charges that they blind-sided the highly respected Secretary of State, Colin Powell; that Rumsfeld short-trooped Gen. Franks, contributing to our failure to capture Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora (as did the duplicity of our supposed ally, Pakistan); and he charges the Bush administration with looking the other way as Afghan warlords flood the market with opium. But Risen also asserts that Bush, while sometimes out of the loop, is not blameless, for he clearly signaled the tone of the War on Terror. Risen's in-depth accounts are clearly based on well-placed, or formerly well-placed figures, though he keeps them anonymous; nevertheless, they include specifics and they identify some career professionals whose agenda-less efforts to provide the best intelligence were squelched in what ultimately, Risen implies, was an unprecedented effort to undermine, circumvent, and overrule the checks and balances built into the system. In STATE OF WAR, James Risen portrays a CIA "so deeply politicized by the Bush administration that its credibility had vanished" and an administration that seems answerable only to itself in the name of the War on Terror.
| Size | | Height: | 6.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"While Mr. Risen's revelations about the N.S.A. take up only a chapter in STATE OF WAR, they are the dramatic high point in an illuminating and disturbing book focusing on the Bush administration's use--and perhaps misuse--of power over the past four years."
New York Times - James Bamford (01/09/2006)
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