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Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency
Little Brown and Company
November 2016
On Sale: November 3, 2016
784 pages
ISBN: 0316286575
EAN: 9780316286572
Kindle: B014E0EB9W
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Non-Fiction Political
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's
penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the
national security state Barack Obama campaigned on a promise of change from George
W. Bush's "global war on terror." Yet from indefinite
detention and drone strikes to surveillance and military
tribunals, Obama ended up continuing-and in some cases
expanding-many policies he inherited. What happened? In Power Wars, Charlie Savage looks inside the Obama
administration's national security legal and policy team in
a way that no one has before. Based on exclusive interviews
with more than 150 current and former officials and access
to previously unreported documents, he lays bare their
internal deliberations, including emotional debates over the
fates of detainees held on torture-tainted evidence and acts
of war that lacked congressional authorization. He tells the
inside stories of how Obama came to order the killing of an
American citizen, preside over an unprecedented crackdown on
leaks, and keep a then-secret National Security Agency
program that collected records of every American's phone calls. Savage also pieces together the first comprehensive history
of how American surveillance secretly developed over the
past thirty-five years, synthesizing recent revelations and
filling in gaps with new reporting. And he provides lucid
explanations of legal dilemmas in a way that non-lawyers can
understand. Highlighted by new information about the pivotal
aftermath to the failed Christmas underwear bombing and the
planning for the Osama bin Laden raid, Savage's own
eyewitness reporting at Guantánamo, and detailed accounts of
closed-door meetings at the highest levels of government,
Power Wars equips readers to understand the legacy of
Obama's presidency.
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