The FBI that failed on 9/11 is the creation and captive of its
spectacular and controversial past. Its original mission -- the
investigation and prosecution of only the most serious crimes
against the United States -- was forsaken almost from the
beginning. This abandonment of purpose has been accompanied by a
long history of political pressure, both from within and without.
This sorry and scandal-ridden path culminated in a twenty-five-year
run-up to 9/11 in which predictable and preventable lapses became
hopelessly entrenched.
In "Broken," Richard Gid Powers, one of the country's leading
historians of national security and law enforcement, offers a
definitive and provocative study of the Bureau from its origins to
the present. Combing through the archives, and interviewing more
than 100 past and current agents, he unearths stories behind some
of the most famous cases and characters in our history. Powers, who
attended new-agent training classes at the FBI Academy in Quantico,
Virginia, was granted access to restricted FBI facilities. His
research included visits to the scenes of controversial FBI cases
across the country, including Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the Indian
reservation at Pine Ridge.
Powers did not set out to write a muckraking attack, and he
gives the Bureau its due for many triumphs. Nonetheless, his story
features an astonishing range of political abuses, misdirected
investigations, skewed priorities, and sheer intelligence
failures.
From the Bureau's outrageous participation in the anticommunist
Palmer Raids and their successors, to its abuses of civil liberties
during the Cold War, to its flagrant acts of domestic political
interference during the civil rights era, it has often seemed to be
consumed by feuds with such opponents as Harry Truman, Martin
Luther King Jr., the Kennedys, and Bill Clinton. With the discovery
of turncoat spies within its own ranks, and with the severe
intelligence failures of 9/11, the Bureau has finally proven itself
incapable of spotting the true enemies of our country within our
borders.
Richard Powers's account is a searing indictment of failure, yet
it is also strong evidence that the Bureau could be returned to its
original mission of detecting the most serious crimes against the
United States: terrorism, political corruption, corporate crime,
and organized crime. Readers must decide for themselves whether
America should mend it or end it.
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