Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World

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A former top CIA executive captures the incredible pressure, bravery, and uncertainty of an agency pushed to the brink.When the towers fell on September 11, 2001, nowhere were the reverberations powerfully felt than at Langley Almost overnight, an intelligence organization converted itself into a weaponized warfighting machine, one that raised questions about how far America would go to pursue al Qa ida Now, than fifteen years later, ex CIA executive Philip Mudd comes forward with a never before told account of the 9 11 story, one that illuminates the profound impact that enhanced interrogation techniques and other initiatives known internally as The Program took on those who administered them With unprecedented access to officials at the highest levels including Director George Tenet Mudd goes beyond the 2014 Senate report to show us what life was really like at the CIA prisons and why interrogators were forced to make decisions that they still ponder today As hair raising as it is revelatory, Black Site shows us the tragedy and triumph of the CIA during its most difficult hour. Free Read Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World [ Author ] Philip Mudd [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr I received this book through a Good Reads First Reads giveaway Black Site, authored by the former Deputy Director of the CIA s Counterterrorism Center, Philip Mudd, is an examination of the development and implementation of the Program, the CIA s system of secret detention facilities and the enhanced interrogation techniques applied there to extract info...Here is an eye opening, compelling inside narrative of our premiere intelligence agency during one of the most upsetting periods in the life of our nation Remember that the Central Intelligence Agency was not very old when Al Qaeda flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and literally shocked the American public to its core In intelligence and political circles especially, the question arose is there a plan to protect us against a second attack None of the law enforcement and Here is an eye opening, compelling inside narrative of our premiere intelligence agency during one of the most upsetting periods in the life of our nation Remember that the Central Intelligence Agency was not very old when Al Qaeda flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and literally shocked the American public to its core In intelligence and political circles especially, the question arose is there a plan to protect us against a second attack None of the law enforcement and counter intelligence operations in our government could answer that question with any assurance and the political organizations of the nation were peopled with a lot of very nervous individuals.Written in the third person, by a former executive in the CIA and at the White House, and also at one time an executive at the FBI, the author has a deep experience with the changing s and cultu...A good review of the very specific topic of the CIA post 9 11 The trip down memory lane to the way we were thinking back then, and Obama s turn against the actors who did exactly what a lot of people wanted them to do was interesting to read, if tough.Kind of a slog I started Black Site but didn t stick with it A pity because I like listening to Philip Mudd on CNN a lot He s got strong, snappy opinions expresses them well But not here The CIA might ve gone through its most difficult hour but the reader shouldn t have toSurprisingly thorough A little too apologetic though

Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World
  • 18 November 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 272 pages
  • 1631491970
  • Philip Mudd
  • Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World