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9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
Anchor
May 2005
480 pages ISBN: 140003034X Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
The bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Puzzle
Palace presents his most hard-hitting book to date...a
sweeping, authoritative, and fearless account of the
failures of America's intelligence agencies and the Bush
administration's calculated efforts to sell a war to the
American people. In The Puzzle Palace, James Bamford revealed the
existence of the NSA, the largest, most secretive, and best-
financed intelligence organization in the world. In Body
of Secrets, he took readers inside the ultrasecret
agency, charting its deeds and misdeeds from its founding
in 1952 to the end of the twentieth century. Now Bamford
applies his relentless investigative drive and unparalleled
access to intelligence sources to produce a headline-making
book about the most pressing issues of the present day. From the mishandling of the pre-9/11 threat to the unproven
claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, Bamford
argues that the Bush administration has co-opted the
intelligence community for its own political ends, and at
the expense of American security. Bamford makes the case
that the Bush administration's Middle East policy
decisions, from overthrowing Saddam to ignoring the
situation of the Palestinians, are driven by long-held
beliefs and goals of an elite group of conservatives inside
and outside of government. A Pretext for War homes in on the systematic
weakness that led the intelligence community to ignore or
misinterpret evidence of the impending terrorist attacks of
9/11?a failure rooted in the refusal to acknowledge the
central role of the Palestinian cause in igniting Arab rage
against the United States. Compounding the errors, the
Bush administration's immediate response to 9/11 was to
call for an attack on Iraq, and it subsequently invented
justifications for the preemptive war that has ultimately
left the United States more vulnerable to terrorism. A Pretext for War is an unprecedented, utterly
convincing exposé of the most secretive administration in
history.
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