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The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism--From al Qa'ida to ISIS
Twelve
May 2015
On Sale: May 12, 2015
384 pages ISBN: 1455585661 EAN: 9781455585663 Kindle: B00NLJKMOG Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Like See No Evil and At the Center of the
Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the
Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a war in
the shadows.
Called the "Bob Gates of his
generation" by Politico, Michael Morell was a top CIA
officer who played a critical role in the most important
counterterrorism events of the past two decades. Morell was
by President Bush's side on 9/11/01 when terrorists struck
America and in the White House Situation Room advising
President Obama on 5/1/11 when America struck back-killing
Usama bin Ladin. From the subway bombings in London to the
terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Morell always seemed to find
himself on the cusp of history.
A superb
intelligence analyst and briefer, Morell now presents THE
GREAT WAR OF OUR TIME, where he uses his talents to offer an
unblinking and insightful assessment of CIA's
counterterrorism successes and failures of the past twenty
years and, perhaps most important, shows readers that the
threat of terrorism did not die with Bin Ladin in
Abbottabad. Morell illuminates new, growing threats from
terrorist groups that, if unaddressed, could leave the
country vulnerable to attacks that would dwarf 9/11 in
magnitude.
He writes of secret, back-channel
negotiations he conducted with foreign spymasters and regime
leaders in a desperate attempt to secure a peaceful outcome
to unrest launched during the "Arab Spring." Morell
describes how efforts to throw off the shackles of
oppression have too often resulted in broken nation states
unable or unwilling to join the fight against
terrorism.
Along the way Morell provides intimate
portraits of the leadership styles of figures ranging from
Presidents Bush and Obama, CIA directors Tenet, Goss,
Hayden, Petraeus, Panetta, and Brennan, and a host of others.
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