Sabotage: America's Enemies within the CIA - Hardcover

Scarborough, Rowan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1596985100 ISBN 13: 9781596985100

Publisher: Regnery Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

How Bush-hating CIA Bureaucrats Are Sabotaging the War on Terror
Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, intelligence collection has become the number-one weapon in the effort to defeat al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. A plot penetrated is an attack stopped. And to the outside observer, the CIA has performed well as a key partner in the Bush administration's War on Terror. But as Rowan Scarborough reveals in this groundbreaking new book, significant elements within the CIA are undermining both the president and national security through leaks, false allegations, and outright sabotage.

Using his first-rate sources in all levels of national security--from field officers to high-ranking analysts to former intelligence heads--Scarborough paints a disturbing picture of partisan politics endangering the success of our campaigns abroad and the very lives of our soldiers and agents.

In Sabotage, you'll learn:

* How CIA analysts repeatedly leak details about classified intelligence programs with the dual intent of ending them and damaging the president
* How, on at least eight occasions, intelligence officials have made serious allegations of wrongdoing against the president's men--which turned out to be false
* Why, contrary to popular belief, the CIA has become predominantly liberal
* How a CIA turf battle prevented special operators from pursuing and capturing a notorious Taliban leader
* How current and former CIA officers fueled conspiracy theories that President Bush orchestrated the 9/11 attacks on America
* How a CIA leak to the New York Times deprived the U.S. of critical information in the War on Terror
* How press leaks by the CIA have damaged relations with our foreign allies in the War on Terror
* How a CIA analyst worked with Democrats to sabotage the nomination of John Bolton to the UN
* How Clinton's downsizing of the CIA led to the closing of stations in scores of jihadist breeding grounds--including Hamburg, Germany, where the 9/11 plot was hatched

The CIA's job is to collect facts and let the White House, the Pentagon, and the State Department make national security policy. But, as Scarborough conclusively demonstrates, an agency that is supposed to be scrupulously nonpartisan has become increasingly political--during a time of war--against America's elected commander in chief.

About this title

About the Author:

Rowan Scarborough, author of Sabotage, writes national security stories for Human Events. A Navy veteran, he covered the Pentagon for the Washington Times for nearly two decades, where he built a tremendous reputation for breaking news and covered national security for the Washington Examiner. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Rumsfeld’s War and has been featured on scores of radio and TV shows.

From AudioFile:

Conservative author Rowan Scarborough never conclusively proves his point that the CIA is a left-wing organization that has purposely been sabotaging the Bush administration since 9/11. He sees the Valerie Plame incident as a case in point. Tom Weiner's reading is as fluent as Scarborough's words are groundless. Obviously, the CIA, like any government agency, is not perfect, but in Scarborough's opinion their transgressions--many of which occurred during the era when the author was a fervent apologist for the White House--have gone far beyond incompetence, almost to the level of treason. Through his confident enunciation, Weiner makes the text sound like more of a certainty than the biased statement it really is. J.S.H. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1596985100
• ISBN 13: 9781596985100
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 229