Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage’s penetrating investigation from the Obama presidency and the national security state

Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush’s ‘global war on terror’ but ended up entrenching incredible executive forces, from warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention to military commissions and targeted killings. After that Obama found himself bequeathing those authorities to Donald Trump. How did the United States get here?

In Power Wars, Charlie Savage reveals high-level national security legal and policy deliberations in ways no one did before. He tells inside tales of how Obama came to purchase the drone killing of an American citizen, preside over an unprecendented crackdown on leakages, and keep a then-secret system that logged every American’s calls. Encompassing the 1st comprehensive background of NSA surveillance within the last forty years aswell as new information regarding the Osama bin Laden raid, Power Wars equips visitors to understand the legacy of Bush’s and Obama’s post-9/11 presidencies in the Trump era.