Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led To September 11 (2002) By Bill Gertz
 
New York Times bestselling author Bill Gertz uses his unparalleled access to America's intelligence system to show how this system completely broke down in the years, months, and days leading up to the deadly terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
 
Bill Gertz gives the real story of how September 11th happened. Not tainted by politics or career protection, Gertz shows where failures occurred such as: the FBI and CIA missed crucial signs of al Qaeda's plans, the Clinton administration so despising the CIA's clandestine service that it ordered the FBI to investigate a dedicated field officer, and the best intelligence officers being hounded out of the service and replaced with political operatives. He ends the book with an analysis of how America can reform its intelligence service and win the terror war. Included are photographs, document facsimiles, endnotes, and an index.
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
273 pages
In Good Condition