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Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI

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Item specifics

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Good: A book that has been read, but is in good condition. Minimal damage to the book cover eg. ...
Release Year
2007
ISBN
9781416568223

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
1416568220
ISBN-13
9781416568223
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63348011

Product Key Features

Book Title
Broken : the Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Language
English
Topic
International Relations / Arms Control, Law Enforcement, General, Security (National & International), Criminology
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science
Author
Richard Gid Powers
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
23 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
John Lehmanformer Secretary of the Navy and member of the 9/11 CommissionPowers presents a shocking and accurate picture of why the FBI developed an institutional culture that rendered it blind to the threat from international terror.Brokenis required reading for anyone who wants to understand how the FBI failed to operate as an effective defense against al Qaeda in the run-up to 9/11, despite the best efforts of some very fine agents.
Dewey Decimal
363.25/0973
Table Of Content
Contents ONE A Shadow of Itself TWO A New Force (1902-1908) THREE The First Decade (1909-1918) FOUR Red Webs and Normalcy (1919-1933) FIVE Hollywood (1933-1945) SIX The Cold War FBI (1945-1961) SEVEN A Secret Society (1961-1972) EIGHT A Haunted Bureau (1972-1978) NINE Exorcising the Ghosts (1978-1993) TEN Louis Freeh's FBI (1993-September 11, 2001) Afterword: End or Mend? Notes Acknowledgments Index
Synopsis
The FBI that failed on 9/11 is the creation and captive of its spectacular and controversial past. Its original mission -- the investigation and prosecution of only the most serious crimes against the United States -- was forsaken almost from the beginning. This abandonment of purpose has been accompanied by a long history of political pressure, both from within and without. This sorry and scandal-ridden path culminated in a twenty-five-year run-up to 9/11 in which predictable and preventable lapses became hopelessly entrenched. In Broken, Richard Gid Powers, one of the country's leading historians of national security and law enforcement, offers a definitive and provocative study of the Bureau from its origins to the present. Combing through the archives, and interviewing more than 100 past and current agents, he unearths stories behind some of the most famous cases and characters in our history. Powers, who attended new-agent training classes at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, was granted access to restricted FBI facilities. His research included visits to the scenes of controversial FBI cases across the country, including Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the Indian reservation at Pine Ridge. Powers did not set out to write a muckraking attack, and he gives the Bureau its due for many triumphs. Nonetheless, his story features an astonishing range of political abuses, misdirected investigations, skewed priorities, and sheer intelligence failures. From the Bureau's outrageous participation in the anticommunist Palmer Raids and their successors, to its abuses of civil liberties during the Cold War, to its flagrant acts of domestic political interference during the civil rights era, it has often seemed to be consumed by feuds with such opponents as Harry Truman, Martin Luther King Jr., the Kennedys, and Bill Clinton. With the discovery of turncoat spies within its own ranks, and with the severe intelligence failures of 9/11, the Bureau has finally proven itself incapable of spotting the true enemies of our country within our borders. Richard Powers's account is a searing indictment of failure, yet it is also strong evidence that the Bureau could be returned to its original mission of detecting the most serious crimes against the United States: terrorism, political corruption, corporate crime, and organized crime. Readers must decide for themselves whether America should mend it or end it.

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