US EditionBook Review: 'The Mission' reveals troubling political meddling in CIA after 9/11
CIA OPERATIONS INCLUDING BAGRAM AIR BASE, AFGHANISTAN, JUL 14 – The book details political pressure on the CIA to find Saddam Hussein's weapons, leading to internal turmoil and use of controversial interrogation methods after 9/11.
- Tim Weiner’s 392-page book 'The Mission' reveals how the CIA, post-9/11, morphed into a paramilitary agency and faced political meddling under recent administrations.
- The CIA buckled under pressure from President Bush, who sought evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, leading to a costly military campaign.
- Weiner details agents creating tortures labeled 'enhanced interrogation techniques' and killing suspected terrorists without military oversight, causing internal turmoil.
- Weiner warns Trump hired dangerously incompetent aides, undermined diversity efforts, and that good intelligence alone can prevent future surprise attacks and wars.
- The book calls for the CIA to reclaim its original mission of knowing enemies to avoid fatal miscalculations amid an escalating new cold war.
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Book Review: ‘The Mission’ reveals troubling political meddling in CIA after 9/11
By JEFF ROWE The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in this powerful account of the Central Intelligence Agency actions since the 9/11 attacks. Related Articles Column: Where are the shows about regular people fighting back? Andrea Gibson — Colorado state poet laureate, queer activist and spoken-word artist — dies at 49 …
Book Review: 'The Mission' Reveals Troubling Political Meddling in CIA After 9/11
The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in this powerful account of the Central Intelligence Agency actions since the 9/11 attacks.
Book Review: ‘The Mission’ reveals troubling political meddling in CIA after 9/11 - Regional Media News
The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in this powerful account of the Central Intelligence Agency actions since the 9/11 attacks. The title, “The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century,” would seem to suggest a tidy, academic-style analysis. Instead, it’s a riveting account of a vital institution that descended into turmoil with agents after 9/11 sometimes creatin…
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