The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

by Steve Coll

the C.I.A.’s record in Iraq after 1991 was mostly one of operational and analytical calamities. This is not just an outsider’s hindsight verdict. Inside the C.I.A. during the late 1990s, the Iraq Operations Group was known sardonically as “the House of Broken Toys.”