Title: Poor storytelling even poorer scholarship.
Product review: We learn nothing new in this book (everything in this book is public record) nor do we get an interesting POV from the author. I hoped that at least the author would somehow have more info regarding clandestine operations/covert ops policy using NSC or personal the notes of the president's. But nope, just easily compiled research with weak supposition; makes me think if the publisher was duped by the author that the text would be either a comprehensive text or a critical study. Instead they received about 200 pages of recycled poo.Abridged literature review: The author wishes to convince the reader and the general public that the CIA acts only when the President orders it to do so; and intelligence work is becoming more and more politicized, which compromises integrity from the DCI, down.
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