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Title: Hard Measures
Author: Jose A. Rodriguez
Narrator: Sean Pratt
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-30-12
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Genres: Nonfiction, Politics
Summary:
From a top-level operative in the counterterrorism unit of the CIA comes an explosive memoir about the behind-the-scenes fight against Al Qaeda after September 11.
Since the death of Osama Bin Laden, interest in counterterrorism is at an all-time high. Most people dont know that Bin Ladens death was the culmination of years of covert operations and tactics largely overseen by Jose Rodriguez from 2001 to late 2007 and built on by his successors.
Like a real-life Jack Bauer from televisions 24, Rodriguezs sometimes controversial tenure as Chief of the Agencys Counterterrorism Center involved CIA officers capturing and detaining key senior Al Qaeda operatives and implementing Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, tools which were an integral part of the War on Terror but are no longer available to those fighting America's fiercest foes.
Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Columbia, Bolivia, and the Dominican Republic, Rodriguez shares his unlikely journey from law school student to CIA recruit and finally, at the end of a 31-year career, to being Americas top spy. Rodriguez sparked controversy and a three-year investigation by his decision to order the destruction of videotapes showing CIA officers conducting harsh, but what he describes as legal, necessary, and effective interrogation[s].
Riveting and timely, Hard Measures also examines how the current political climate and resulting policies have negatively impacted the CIAs efficiency - even taking away the mechanisms that made feats like the successful Bin Laden operation possible.
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