
Intelligence Matters
The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America's War on Terror
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Jonathan Marosz
In this explosive, controversial, and profoundly alarming insider’s report, Senator Bob Graham reveals faults in America’s national security network severe enough to raise fundamental questions about the competence and honesty of public officials in the CIA, the FBI, and the White House.
For 10 years, Senator Graham served on the Senate Intelligence Committee, where he had access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded secrets. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Graham co-chaired a historic joint House-Senate inquiry into the intelligence community’s failures.
From that investigation and his own personal fact-finding, Graham discovered disturbing evidence of terrorist activity and a web of complicity:
- At one point, a terrorist support network conducted some of its operations through Saudi Arabia’s U.S. embassy - and a funding chain for terrorism led to the Saudi royal family.
- In February 2002, only four months after combat began in Afghanistan, the Bush administration ordered General Tommy Franks to move vital military resources out of Afghanistan for an operation against Iraq - despite Franks’s privately stated belief that there was a job to finish in Afghanistan, and that the war on terrorism should focus next on terrorist targets in Somalia and Yemen.
- Throughout 2002, President Bush directed the FBI to limit its investigations of Saudi Arabia, which supported some and possibly all of the September 11 hijackers.
- The White House was so uncooperative with the bipartisan inquiry that its behavior bore all the hallmarks of a cover-up.
- The FBI had an informant who was extremely close to two of the September 11 hijackers, and actually housed one of them, yet the existence of this informant and the scope of his contacts with the hijackers were covered up.
- There were 12 instances when the September 11 plot could have been discovered and potentially foiled.
- Days after 9/11, U.S. authorities allowed some Saudis to fly, despite a complete civil aviation ban, after which the government expedited the departure of more than one hundred Saudis from the United States.
- Foreign leaders throughout the Middle East warned President Bush of exactly what would happen in a postwar Iraq, and those warnings went either ignored or unheeded.
As a result of his Senate work, Graham has become convinced that the attacks of September 11 could have been avoided, and that the Bush administration’s war on terrorism has failed to address the immediate danger posed by al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia. His book is a disturbing reminder that at the highest levels of national security, now more than ever, intelligence matters.
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This is the kind of book I can listen to more than once.
Very Interesting and Eye Opening
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A must listen!
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well written , exceptional performance and exciting insights into the intelligence committee.
some parts were very technical but un
very interesting and insightful.
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While there's some interesting facts and intelligence presented, it's clear that Senator Graham (and the Democrats) are bitter about the Bush Administration, and that taints much of what is presented as "Evidence".
I'd have found it MUCH more interesting if it wasn't so clearly slanted politically while the author claims to be a centrist. The constant political observations make you wonder if the "facts" are true, or are just the opinions of someone that dislikes Bush.
What "appears" to be "obvious intelligence" is only hindsight, which is 20/20.. it was not mentioned that the intelligence services sift through THOUSANDS of these threats and suspicious activities each year, yet the author wants to present the case that the FBI should have CLEARLY seen this needle in the haystack... AFTER the fact it's obvious, of course, but things always are After the fact.
To be honest, I didn't find out anything really new, just a few facts that took what I already knew a bit further, and (again) I am suspicious that these "facts" may be tainted by politics.
Bush Bash Fest
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is the worst reader I have come across and I said I would never listen to him again, but this book was worth putting up with him.
Good book, terrible reader
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Highly informative even if it is written by a politician!
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The narrative would catch from the beginning. However then the let downs that occured after , would make one wonder how did that happen?
Those who learn from the past will be better prepared for the future.
A note on "intelligence matters"
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Open your eyes
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I loved the book
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Utterly disturbing
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