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How U.S. Intelligence Could Have Prevented 9/11 |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Gordon L. Anderson |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 997 Words, 6,472 Characters |
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BREAKDOWN: THE FAILURE OF AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE TO DEFEAT GLOBAL TERROR
By Bill Gertz
New York: Penguin, 2003
316 pages, paper, $15.00
Bill Gertz has been a defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times for nearly twenty years and, as such, has numerous contacts in all U.S. intelligence-gathering agencies and information about how they operate and the types of information they have or don't have. In short, he says American intelligence has failed, people should wake up. His book was a New York Times bestseller.
One of the main points the author makes is that the United States government agencies had...
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...ed field agents, Gertz's documentation makes a strong case that a more functional U.S. intelligence system could have prevented 9/11, the embassy bombings in Africa, the loss of good allies in Afghanistan, and more. It should be read by anyone interested in developing intelligence that is more effective in detecting and preventing terrorists acts.
© 2003 International Journal on World Peace
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