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Title: A Pretext for War
Subtitle: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
Author: James Bamford
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-09-04
Publisher: Books on Tape
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 103 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, Politics
Publisher's Summary:
This book says outright what many have merely hinted at: that President George W. Bush knowingly misused the findings of the erroneous and incompetent U.S. intelligence community to provide a pretext for war with Iraq. The author hones in on the systematic weaknesses of the intelligence agencies that caused them to ignore the crucial signs leading up to the attacks of 9/11. Incompetence, deception, and misinformation from these agencies simply left the door open for President Bush and his cronies, who were less interested in the capture of Osama bin Laden and the destruction of his terror network than in following a dubious agenda in Iraq. The missing "weapons of mass destruction" are merely the latest by-product of Bush's co-optation of intelligence for political ends.
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Critic Reviews:
"Much of the information and many of the theories in Mr. Bamford's book will be familiar to readers from earlier magazine and newspaper articles, and other books....But Mr. Bamford unearths new details about everything from the identity of one of the disclosed locations used by Vice President Dick Cheney after 9/11...to the failures of a special CIA unit charged with tracking Osama bin Laden, and he connects the many dots, both old and new, to create a vivid, unsettling narrative." (The New York Times)