Description
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Here is the real story of how September 11 happened complete with previously unpublished classified documents, which have been redacted to protect American security.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 Breakdown you'll learn the shocking litany of failures by America's intelligence services that left our country vulnerable. Here's a small taste:
- The inside 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 National Security Agency low the ability to intercept bin Laden's telephone calls and how terrorists operated next door to the eavesdrop- ping 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.
ISBN:9780895261489
