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The best-selling author of Body of Secrets provides a provocative analysis of the serious failures of America's intelligence agencies, including their inability to predict or prevent the tragedy of September 11, and explores the Bush administration's role in co-opting the intelligence community to serve its own political ends. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
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A Pretext for War reveals the systematic weaknesses behind the failure to detect or prevent the 9/11 attacks, and details the Bush administration's subsequent misuse of intelligence to sell preemptive war to the American people. Filled with unprecedented revelations, from the sites of 'undisclosed locations' to the actual sources of America's Middle East policy, A Pretext for War is essential reading for anyone concerned about the security of the United States. Acclaimed author James Bamford'whose classic book The Puzzle Palace first revealed the existence of the National Security Agency'draws on his unparalleled access to top intelligence sources to produce a devastating expose of the intelligence community and the Bush administration.
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