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October Surprise - How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election (Hardcover)
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October Surprise - How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R493
Discovery Miles 4 930
You Save R270 (35%)
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The 2016 Election, which altered American political history, was
not decided by the Russians or in Ukraine or by Steve Bannon. The
event that broke Hillary's blue wall in the Midwest and swung
Florida and North Carolina was an October Surprise, and it was
wholly a product of the leadership of the FBI. This is the inside
story by the reporter closest to its center. In September 2016,
Hillary Clinton was the presumptive next president of the US. She
had a blue wall of states leaning her way in the Midwest, and was
ahead in North Carolina and Florida, with a better than even shot
at taking normally Republican Arizona. The US was about to get its
first woman president. Yet within two months everything was lost.
An already tightening race saw one seismic correction: it came in
October when the FBI launched an investigation into the Clinton
staff's use of a private server for their emails. Clinton fell 3-4
percent in the polls instantly, and her campaign never had time to
rebut the investigation or rebuild her momentum so close to
election day. The FBI cost her the race. October Surprise is a
pulsating narrative of an agency seized with righteous certainty
that waded into the most important political moment in the life of
the nation, and has no idea how to back out with dignity. So it
doggedly stands its ground, compounding its error. In a momentous
display of self-preservation, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and key
Justice Department officials decide to protect their own
reputations rather than save the democratic process. Once they make
that determination, the race is lost for Clinton, who is helpless
in front of their accusation even though she has not intended to
commit, let alone actually committed, any crime. A dark true-life
thriller with historic consequences set at the most crucial moment
in the electoral calendar, October Surprise is a warning, a
morality tale and a political and personal tragedy.
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