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With relentless media coverage, breathtaking events, and extraordinary congressional and independent investigations, it is hard to believe that we still might not know some of the most significant facts about the presidency of George W. Bush. Yet beneath the surface events of the Bush presidency lies a secret history -- a series of hidden events that makes a mockery of current debate. This hidden history involves domestic spying, abuses of power, and outrageous operations. It includes a CIA that became caught in a political cross fire that it could not withstand, and what it did to respond. It includes a Defense Department that made its own foreign policy, even against the wishes of the commander in chief. It features a president who created a sphere of deniability in which his top aides were briefed on matters of the utmost sensitivity -- but the president was carefully kept in ignorance.State of Warreveals this hidden history for the first time, including scandals that will redefine the Bush presidency. James Risen has covered national security forThe New York Timesfor years. Based on extraordinary sources from top to bottom in Washington and around the world, drawn from dozens of interviews with key figures in the national security community, this book exposes an explosive chain of events: Contrary to law, and with little oversight, the National Security Administration has been engaged in a massive domestic spying program. On such sensitive issues as the use of torture, the administration created a zone of deniability: the president's top advisors were briefed, but the president himself was not. The United States actually gave nuclear-bomb designs to Iran. The CIA had overwhelming evidence that Iraq had no nuclear weapons programs during the run-up to the Iraq war. They kept that information to themselves and didn't tell the president. While the United States has refused to lift a finger, Afghanistan has become a narco-state, supplying 87 percent of the heroin sold on the global market. These are just a few of the stories told inState of War.Beyond these shocking specifics, Risen describes troubling patterns: Truth-seekers within the CIA were fired or ignored. Long-standing rules were trampled. Assassination squads were trained; war crimes were proposed. Yet for all the aggressiveness of America's spies, a blind eye was turned toward crucial links between al Qaeda and Saudi Arabia, among other sensitive topics. Not since the revelations of CIA and FBI abuses in the 1970s have so many scandals in the intelligence community come to light. More broadly, Risen's secret history shows how power really works in George W. Bush's presidency.

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Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
0743270665
ISBN-13
9780743270663
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50866024

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Book Title
State of War : the Secret History of the Cia and the Bush Administration
Author
James Risen
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Intelligence & Espionage, Presidents & Heads of State, Comparative Politics, American Government / General
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Political Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Jk468.I6r57 2006
Reviews
"Explosive.... James Risen may have become the new Woodward and Bernstein.... Fast paced, quite mesmerizing, colorful, and fascinating." -- The New York Times Book Review, "Damning and dismaying...As a national security reporter for the New York Times, Risen has produced some of this era's best journalism on the Central Intelligence Agency and the dysfunctional relationship between the White House and the U.S. spy community.... As one of the Washington press corps' best reporters on national security issues, Risen has a record of being right.... State of War is a welcome reminder that American journalism has a higher purpose than shallow pandering to the lowest pop-cultural denominator. Somewhere, beyond celebrity, there are issues and ideas that matter. James Risen's book is an urgent contribution to the country's common good by a skillful and courageous reporter." -- Los Angeles Times, "Risen's book is really about the secret of many things that have gone wrong in the administration of George W. Bush. The quantity, and apparent quality, of the secrets revealed in State of War distinguishes Risen's book from its competitors. What it represents is a profound hemorrhaging of information from within the corridors of secret power in Washington.... Risen becomes the mouthpiece for a U.S. intelligence community anxious to unburden itself of the mistakes and misdeeds of the recent past. He has not one, but many 'Deep Throats.'" -- Toronto Globe and Mail, "Domestic spying, demands for political loyalty in the name of national security, investigating a newspaper's sources: With State of War, the Nixonian déjà vu can give a reader whiplash." -- The Dallas Morning News
Table of Content
CONTENTS A NOTE ON SOURCES PROLOGUE 1. "Who Authorized Putting Him on Pain Medication?" 2. The Program 3. Casus Belli 4. The Hunt for WMD 5. Skeptics and Zealots 6. Spinning War and Peace 7. Losing Afghanistan 8. In Denial: Oil, Terrorism, and Saudi Arabia 9. A Rogue Operation AFTERWORD ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2006-355014
Dewey Decimal
973.931
Dewey Edition
22

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