Thiessen, Marc A.

Courting disaster : how the CIA kept America safe and how Barack Obama is inviting the next attack / Marc A. Thiessen. - Washington, DC : New York : Regnery Pub. ; Distributed to the trade by Perseus Distribution, c2010. - 484 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-472) and index.

"Sheikh Osama warned you" -- "Hell, yes!" -- "How could the CIA be so stupid?" -- "You must do this for all the brothers" -- "You did the right thing" -- Tough, not torture -- "Absolute evil?" -- "Hard choices" -- "Double agents" -- "I want to go back to Guantanamo" -- Throat-slitters, not sheep herders -- "A present for Obama" -- Courting disaster -- "You've got a harder job" -- The trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

1596986034 (alk. paper)


Obama, Barack, 1961-


United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


Intelligence service--United States.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Terrorism--Government policy--United States.
National security--United States.
Servicio de inteligencia--Estados Unidos.
Ataques terroristas del 11 de septiembre, 2001.
Terrorismo--Gobierno política--Estados Unidos
Seguridad nacional--Estados Unidos.


United States--Politics and government--2009-

JK 468 / T439c 2010

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