Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
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Author | Bill Gertz |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | United States Politics Terrorism |
Genre | non-fiction |
Publisher | Plume |
Publication date | 27 May 2003 |
Pages | 320 |
ISBN | 0-452-28427-9 |
OCLC | 54081932 |
327.1273/009/045 21 | |
LC Class | UB251.U6 G47 2003 |
Breakdown (ISBN 0-452-28427-9) is a 2003 book by Bill Gertz arguing that U.S. intelligence services "lost sight of [their] purpose and function" due to Clinton administration policies that were more concerned with political correctness than with national defense.
Publishers Weekly gave it a mixed review, calling it "an unbalanced but revealing expose on the mistakes, misdirections and blunders behind 'the most damaging intelligence failure since Pearl Harbor.'"[1]
Sam Roberts writing in The New York Times credits Gertz with convincingly arguing that there was a failure within the American intelligence community, although "his well-argued case is occasionally freighted by his own predispositions."[2]
References[]
- ^ "Reviews: Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11". Publishers Weekly. 26 August 2002. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
- ^ Roberts, Sam (20 November 2002). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; A Catastrophic Failure To Think the Unthinkable". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
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