<![CDATA[See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism]]>

false <![CDATA[See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165859285m/9073.jpg 9073 19 In his explosive New York Times bestseller, top CIA operative Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides startling evidence of how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA’s efforts to root out the world’s deadliest terrorists, allowing for the rise of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda and the continued entrenchment of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. A veteran case officer in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations in the Middle East, Baer witnessed the rise of terrorism first hand and the CIA’s inadequate response to it, leading to the attacks of September 11, 2001. This riveting book is both an indictment of an agency that lost its way and an unprecedented look at the roots of modern terrorism, and includes a new afterword in which Baer speaks out about the American war on terrorism and its profound implications throughout the Middle East. “Robert Baer was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East.” –Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker From The Preface This book is a memoir of one foot soldier’s career in the other cold war, the one against terrorist networks. It’s a story about places most Americans will never travel to, about people many Americans would prefer to think we don’t need to do business with. This memoir, I hope, will show the reader how spying is supposed to work, where the CIA lost its way, and how we can bring it back again. But I hope this book will accomplish one more purpose as well: I hope it will show why I am angry about what happened to the CIA. And I want to show why every American and everyone who cares about the preservation of this country should be angry and alarmed, too. The CIA was systematically destroyed by political correctness, by petty Beltway wars, by careerism, and much more. At a time when terrorist threats were compounding globally, the agency that should have been monitoring them was being scrubbed clean instead. Americans were making too much money to bother. Life was good. The White House and the National Security Council became cathedrals of commerce where the interests of big business outweighed the interests of protecting American citizens at home and abroad. Defanged and dispirited, the CIA went along for the ride. And then on September 11, 2001, the reckoning for such vast carelessness was presented for all the world to see. 873604 2002 See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism total:791|5:202|4:357|3:195|2:35|1:2| 791 3095 1108 116 4 1 false false Sun Dec 30 21:35:34 -0800 2007 Mon Jul 09 08:52:29 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 10 07:23:42 -0700 2007
Baer argues - largely through firsthand experience - that the CIA, in the simplest terms possible, bowed to political pressure of all sorts, sent idiots overseas to...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 21 12:40:37 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 12:42:46 -0700 2009
This is the book that "inspired" the movie Syriana, whatever that means because it is nothing like Syriana other than the main character is a badass from the CIA with a white house that hinders the agency's search for terrorism in ord...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 10:05:46 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 16:25:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 14:53:35 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 15:08:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 10 20:17:49 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 20:23:43 -0700 2009
Excellent account of a CIA foot soldier in the Middle Ea...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 09:14:02 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 09:20:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 27 13:15:29 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 15:40:59 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 09:03:29 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 19:47:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Sep 06 07:44:29 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 07:50:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 07:35:53 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 25 21:03:59 -0800 2009
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Those words, spoken by Robert Baer’s post-college roommate in the mid-1970s, were the beginning of his 20-year odyssey through the bowels of America’s intelligence apparatus. The son of an adventurous, impulsive mother, Baer traveled the world as a child and a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 11:59:19 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 12:00:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 16:17:48 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 16:27:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sun Oct 26 23:04:35 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 23:06:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Fri Feb 08 15:09:43 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 15:10:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 07:48:05 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 13:34:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 08:34:27 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 09:22:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Feb 10 08:25:55 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 08:27:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=9073