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The Untold Story Of America Under Attack On 9/11
Riverhead Hardcover
September 2009
On Sale: September 8, 2009
400 pages
ISBN: 1594488940
EAN: 9781594488948
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From the senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, a
mesmerizing real-time portrayal of that day, why we weren't
told the truth, and why our nation is still at risk. As one
of the primary authors of the 9/11 Commission Report, John
Farmer is proud of his and his colleagues' work. Yet he came
away from the experience convinced that there was a further
story to be told, one he was uniquely qualified to write.
Now that story can be told. Tape recordings, transcripts,
and contemporaneous records that had been classified have
since been declassified, and the inspector general's
investigations of government conduct have been completed.
Drawing on his knowledge of those sources, as well as his
years as an attorney in public and private practice, Farmer
reconstructs the truth of what happened on that fateful day
and the disastrous circumstances that allowed it: the
institutionalized disconnect between what those on the
ground knew and what those in power did. He details
-terrifyingly and illuminatingly-the key moments in the
years, months, weeks, and days that preceded the attacks,
then descends almost in real time through the attacks
themselves, portraying them as they have never before been
seen. Ultimately, Farmer builds the inescapably convincing
case that the official version not only is almost entirely
untrue but serves to create a false impression of order and
security. The ground truth that Farmer captures suggests a
very different scenario-one that is doomed to be repeated
unless the systemic failures he reveals are confronted and
remedied.
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