State of War Audiobook
State of War Audiobook
- Boyd Gaines
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2006-01-05
- 5 h 0 min
Summary:
State of War reveals the secret history of the CIA and the presidency of George W. Bush some hidden events that includes scandals that will redefine his presidency
The hidden background features a Country wide Security Agency that involved in a massive domestic spying system, a Defense Division that made its own foreign policy, and a chief executive who developed a sphere of deniabilityin which his best aides had been briefed on issues of the utmost sensitivity, however the president was properly kept about Condition of War in ignorance.
James Risen, who has protected national security for THE BRAND NEW York Times for years, draws on outstanding resources in Washington and around the world to uncover an explosive string of occasions:
Contrary to law, and with small oversight, the National Security Agency continues to be engaged in a massive domestic spying system. The United States actually offered nuclear-bomb styles to Iran. The CIA experienced overwhelming proof that Iraq got no nuclear weapons programs during the run-up towards the Iraq War. They held that info to themselves, and didn¹t inform the president. While the U.S. provides refused to lift a finger, Afghanistan has turned into a narco-state, offering 87 percent from the world’s heroin marketplace.
Not since the 1970s possess a lot of scandals in the cleverness community emerged. Surprising in its specifics and troubling in its ramifications, Risen¹s secret history shows how power really functions in the Bush administration.