State of War - The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration

Informationen zum Autor The author has reported on national security issues for a major US national newspaper for twenty years. In 2002 he was a member of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for post-9/11 journalism. Klappentext An explosive book! filled with revelations! about the secret intelligence scandals of the Bush administration and a US national security bureaucracy run amok. Zusammenfassung With relentless media coverage, breathtaking events, and extraordinary congressional and independent investigations, it is hard to believe that we might not know some of the most significant facts about the presidency of George W. Bush. Yet beneath the surface events of the Bush presidency lies a secret history -- a series of hidden events that makes a mockery of many of the stories on the surface. This hidden history involves domestic spying, abuses of power, and outrageous operations. It includes a CIA that became caught in a political crossfire it could not withstand, even against the wishes of the commander-in-chief. It features a president who created a sphere of deniability, in which his top aides were briefed on matters of the utmost sensitivity -- but the president was carefully kept in ignorance. STATE OF WAR reveals this hidden history for the first time, including scandals that will redefine the Bush presidency.

Product details

• Authors: James Risen, Risen James
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.04.2007
• EAN: 9781416526216
• ISBN: 978-1-4165-2621-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; USA, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, United States of America, USA, Espionage & secret services, History of the Americas, Espionage and secret services