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Breakdown : How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11

by Bill Gertz
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Bill Gertz, bestselling author and acclaimed defense and national security reporter, uses his unparalleled access to America's intelligence systems to examine how our nation's security is compromised by outdated bureaucracies and timid politics. Full of insider scoops and classified materials that tell the frightening truth about the FBI and the CIA. Breakdown is an incredibly gripping exposé unlike any other-unabashedly courageous, decidedly frank, and unafraid to lay blame where it is due.

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New York Times

Chilling...[Gertz] stokes the public's demand for a more rigorous intelligence apparatus.

Book Details

Published
June 1, 2003
Publisher
Plume Books
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780452284272

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