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With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the
country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind
the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left
the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these
profound failures jeopardize our national security.
All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective ... this is
the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It
is wrong. This shocking book, based on thousands of declassified
documents and interviews with agents at all levels, shows the
reality behind the glamorous myth: a blundering, chaotic and
dangerously incompetent organization, so ineffective it was
nicknamed 'Can't Identify Anything' by Nato forces. In a story of
botched coups, missed targets, lost operatives and fatal errors,
Tim Weiner shows how the CIA now poses a threat not only to the
security of the US, but the world.
Now in paperback, here is the eye-opening book based on a Pulitzer
Prize-winning series of articles exposing the "Black Budget", a $36
billion cache used by the Pentagon to fund its own secret agenda of
weapons and wars.
Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles, this is a
thorough, astonishing expose of the "Black Budget"--a
36-billion-dollar cache used by the Pentagon to fund its own agenda
of top-secret weapons and wars.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
"The Washington Post - "New York "Daily News - "Slate
"Fast-paced, fair-minded, and fascinating, Tim Weiner's "Enemies"
turns the long history of the FBI into a story that is as
compelling, and important, as today's headlines."--Jeffrey Toobin,
author of "The Oath"
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Enemies" is the first definitive history of the FBI's secret
intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon
and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
We think of the FBI as America's police force. But secret
intelligence is the Bureau's first and foremost mission. "Enemies"
is the story of how presidents have used the FBI to conduct
political warfare, and how the Bureau became the most powerful
intelligence service the United States possesses.
Here is the hidden history of America's hundred-year war on
terror. The FBI has fought against terrorists, spies, anyone it
deemed subversive--and sometimes American presidents. The FBI's
secret intelligence and surveillance techniques have created a
tug-of-war between national security and civil liberties. It is a
tension that strains the very fabric of a free republic.
Praise for "Enemies
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"Outstanding."--"The New York Times"
"Absorbing . . . a sweeping narrative that is all the more
entertaining because it is so redolent with screw-ups and
scandals."--"Los Angeles Times"
The epic, disturbing story of how the FBI is America's real secret
service 'Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be
crushed out. The hand of our power should close over them at once'
President Woodrow Wilson, 1919 The United States is a country
founded on the ideals of democracy and freedom, yet throughout the
last century it has used secret and lawless methods to destroy its
enemies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the most powerful
of these forces. Following his award-winning history of the C.I.A.,
Legacy of Ashes, Tim Weiner has now written the first full history
of the F.B.I. as a secret intellligence service. Drawn entirely
from firsthand materials in the F.B.I.'s own files, Enemies
brilliantly brings to life the entire story, from the cracking of
anarchist cells to the prosecution of the 'war on terror'. It is
the story of America's war against spies, subversives and saboteurs
- and the self-inflicted wounds American democracy suffered in
battle. Throughout the book lies the long shadow of J. Edgar
Hoover, who ran the F.B.I. with an iron fist for forty-eight years.
He was not a monster, but a brilliant confidence man who ruled by
fear, force, and fraud. His power shaped America; his legacy haunts
it. Reviews: 'Truly impressive ... [Enemies] could have been put
together only by a journalist of Weiner's stature' Keith Lowe,
Sunday Telegraph 'A history that moves at the pace of a James
Ellroy novel. But Weiner's truth is wilder even than Ellroy's
fiction. Weiner sets the record straight on the FBI's first 100
years using only the Bureau's documents and oral testimony, most of
which has never been seen' David Blackburn, Spectator 'An
outstanding piece of work, even-handed, exhaustively researched,
smoothly written and thematically timely ... This is certainly the
most complete book we are likely to see about the F.B.I.'s
intelligence-gathering operations, from Emma Goldman to Osama bin
Laden' Bryan Burrough, New York Times 'Extensively researched,
admirably understated, yet terrifically entertaining' Boston Globe
'Important and disturbing ... Weiner lays bare a record of
embarrassing, even stunning failure, in which the bureau's
lawlessness was matched only by its incompetence ... [he] has done
prodigious research, yet tells this depressing story with all the
verve and coherence of a good spy thriller' New York Times Book
Review About the author: Tim Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist at the New York Times, where he has reported from
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan and fifteen other nations. He was
based for a decade in Washington, DC, where he covered the C.I.A.
and the Military - the latter topic being the subject of his Blank
Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget. He is the author of the
bestselling Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, which won the
2007 National Book Award for Non-Fiction.
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