Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11 [FIRST EDTIION, FIRST PRINTING]

Gertz, Bill

Published by Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 2002

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Fine unread condition gold boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Introduction: Breakdown; Preliminary Page Quote; Appendix A: The Trace; Appendix B: The Evidence; Notes; Acknowledgments and Index. Small paper clip indent at the upper first 7 or so pages. The volume is otherwise in literally new unread condition (see photographs). "New York Times bestselling author Bill Gertz uses his unparalleled access to America's intelligence system to show how this system completely broke down in the years, months, and days leading up to the deadly terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Here is the real story of how September 11 happened -- complete with previously unpublished classified documents, which have been redacted to protect American security. Who's to blame? There's plenty of blame to go around. In Breadown you'll learn the shocking litany of failures by America's intelligence services that left our country vulnerable. Here's a small taste: The insided story of how the FBI and the CIA missed crucial signs of al Qaeda plans for suicide airplane attacks on America; How the Clinton administration so despised the CIA's clandestine service that it ordered the FBI to investigate a dedicated CIA field officer; How a top secret CIA report shows that the CIA was unable to penetrate Osama bin Laden's terrorist network when others could; How the best American intelligence officers have been hounded out of the clandestine service -- and desk-bound bureaucrates and politically correct hires have taken their place; How the National Security Agency lost the ability to intercept bin Laden's telephone calls and how terrorists operated next door to the eavesdropping agency headquarters as they prepared the September 11 attacks; How the FBI lost its ability to carry out effective intelligence operations in the United States thanks to restrictions imposed by Congress and several administrations; How congressional oversight of intelligence caused severe damage to U.S. intelligence agencies and led to restrictions that prevented catching terrorists and spies; What to do now -- how America can reform its intelligence services to win the war on terror. In Breakdown, Bill Gertz delivers the goods in a way that no other reporter can -- with insider scoops and classified material that tell the full story of how our intelligence services collapsed when we needed them most." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Seller Inventory # 007121

Bibliographic Details

Title: Breakdown: How America's Intelligence ...

Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C.

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition