Aaron's review
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
by George Tenet
Aaron's review
At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA by George Tenet
Aaron's review
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memoirs,
politics
An enjoyable book with some valuable insight into the workings of the administration from a high ranking official. Naturally, the book focuses intensely on the CIA's doings before and after 9/11 and the Iraq War. As should be expected, the agency comes off as an fiercely independent, highly analytical and utterly indispensible service to the American people. And, surprisingly enough, Tenet is pretty convincing. The operations and officers of the agency came off as serious – these guys really want to protect the U.S., and were driving themselves insane before AND after 9/11 trying to do so.
The first couple of parts deal largely with the CIA's anti-terror operations and Tenet's indepartmental struggles to get the CIA in a position to combat the terror threat. The last part of the book deals with the CIA's role in the buildup and execution of the Iraq war. Tenet defends the CIA's intelligence, arguing that the estimates and reports delivered to members of Congress and of the admini...more
The first couple of parts deal largely with the CIA's anti-terror operations and Tenet's indepartmental struggles to get the CIA in a position to combat the terror threat. The last part of the book deals with the CIA's role in the buildup and execution of the Iraq war. Tenet defends the CIA's intelligence, arguing that the estimates and reports delivered to members of Congress and of the admini...more
