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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.1273
EAN num: 9781596985100
ISBN number: 1596985100
Label: Regnery Publishing, Ltd.
Manufacturer: Regnery Publishing, Ltd.
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Page Count: 256
Printing Date: July 16, 2007
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Using his first-rate sources in all levels of national security-from field officers to high-ranking analysts to former intelligence heads-bestselling author Rowan Scarborough reveals how CIA bureaucrats are undermining President Bush and the War on Terror through disinformation, incompetence, and outright sabotage.
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During the sixty years the CIA has existed, it has developed its own permanent bureaucracy and the beatings it has taken from Congress and in the press has allowed for the development of multiple factions to develop. Worse, there are those within the agency, abetted by the political agenda of people like Senator Carl Levin, who have used the CIA as a base for advancing their own private agenda. We have seen this over and over again during the administration of George W. Bush. In agency after agency, permanent bureaucrats have felt free to work against the policies of the President of the United States. According to Rowan Scarborough, the CIA is a hotbed of what amounts to sedition. Oh, those working against the President have their reasons and excuses. The problem is they are engaging in very destructive behavior, breaking laws and oaths, and weakening our country.
The author reveals the stories behind the headlines in showing us how people like Karen Kwiatkowski used her post at the Pentagon to spin out phony conspiracy stories into the press to undermine the efforts of the Bush Administration in Iraq. She was aided in her bad works by Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, who comes across as an honorable Senator, but works his vicious agenda relentlessly.
We also get a solid look at the Valerie Plame - Joe Wilson affair and their relentless lying and politicking is exposed. However, what they have to say suits the agenda of the New York Times and other bastions of the left working an agenda regardless of the truth.
Scarborough also takes us through the CIA administrations of Tenet and Porter Goss. Goss tried to help fix what was wrong at the CIA, but he was sabotaged by the permanent CIA bureaucracy, the micromanaging of John Negroponte, the left-wing media, and the fumbling by the Bush Administration. Did Goss handle things perfectly? No. However, we need the CIA fixed and it cannot be done by one person. It has to be a concerted effort by all who have input into how the CIA is staffed, administered, and operated.
This is a concise, neatly written revelation of what is really going on at the CIA. Most of us have notions that the CIA is staffed by people loyal to whomever the President is and will help him (or her) implement policy. No such luck. The appendices provide a few interesting documents that support the stories told in the text and there is a handy "cast of characters" section in the back of the book.
I think this book should be read as a balance to what you get in the main stream press. It will change how you view the stories it puts out as fact.
Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI
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Rowen Scarborough's "Sabotage: America's enemies withing the C.I.A." is a good work.
It tells the grim facts of many leading people in a government agency (indeed the general atmosphere within that agency) being more concerned with domestic politics (specifically undermining the Bush Administration, and more generally attacking people who hold that the Iranian government, and other radical powers both Islamic and non Islamic, have hostile intentions towards the United States and deals can not be made with them) than with doing their jobs.
One can think that many of the policy judgements of the Bush Administration were wrong (for example I believe the judgement to go into Iraq in 2003 was a bad judgement), and one can even hold a bad opinion of President Bush himself - BUT executive branch employees, especially in the defence and intelligence area, are not there to undermine Presidents, they are there to carry out their policies (or resign).
As for the opinion of senior C.I.A. people (and people they are linked to) that deals can be made with the Iranian government, or that the Cuban government is not acting against the United States, or.......
Well if these were private political opinions it could be argued that they do not matter. However, Mr Scarborough makes clear that these opinions directly influence how key people do their jobs, and that these people use smear tactics (via the media) to undermine their opponents and to undermine the Administration.
Such activity is not acceptable.
However, the fact that President Bush has done so little about these matters over the last six years also shows what a weak manager (indeed weak man) President Bush must be - a conclusion Mr Scarborough might not be happy with, but which the very facts he brings to light lead me to.
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It's funny how the Democrats, who vilified the CIA in the '70s, are now the agency's biggest defenders. This book explains why.
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An interesting read and I have to agree with him on most of it but some conclusions are missed. With the V. Plame issue he missed a huge problem. Nigeria's economy is based on exporting orange cake Uranium. Shouldn't we be asking how it came to pass that we don't have agents or a field office in a country that has for its number one export Uranium? There are many examples of this.
As far as appointing persons to be in charge of national security, shouldn't we have people in charge who are from the field? Not policy paper writers? Also, why are we not prosecuting the people who leak that are working at the CIA? Aren't the carrying a security clearance?
He does make the case that the CIA is riddled with Left wingers who are anti-American. Like many of the democrat senators we have today, they profess to love America but think that our government is the embodiment of evil. So they act like some sort of French resistance to destroy it from within.
The book is well written and details out the facts very well. For the lefties who cry that he is demoralizing the CIA, please feel free to explain why a person with a top secret clearance should be allowed his freedom when he leaks secret programs to a senator or the press when he or she disapproves of the program? Since this person was not elected, nor is he or she in a position to dictate National Security Policy, why should they not go straight to jail for the rest of their life?
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The operative word is "spin" because that is precisely what Mr. Scarborough does. A man who defends the selection of Porter Goss as "possibly not the best person to run the CIA" while denying that Goss and his hatchet men politicized the Agency is to be trusted with the facts about as far as one can toss Mount Everest. Scarborough is the kind of author sent out to preach war against Syria and Iran, while continuing to justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq because "everyone got it wrong". Unfortunately, "everyone" did not. He blithely skips over the State Department's intel unit, the many voices within the CIA, the experts at DOD who all claimed that invading Iraq would be a tragedy, wrapped inside a disaster, stuck in the middle of a quagmire. HIs recounting of the Valerie Plame situation is startling only in that his revisionist rewrite of history is a perfect example of how the White House uses members of the press (like Rowan) to promote spin and lies.
Luckily, I managed to read this at my library. I am glad I did not waste my money on such claptrap. highly NOT recommended.
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