Other topics Baer discusses in the book include : the extent to which the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has been involved in anti-American terrorist activity , most publicly in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing ( a death toll of over 300 ) , but allegedly in a far more diverse range of terrorist operations . Baer also writes about how he believes the CIA failed in forecasting the September 11 attacks on America . Baer 's story clearly lays out how the CIA came to the point of not even having a useful agent in the Middle East in the period leading up to the attacks . He goes on to describe the loss of effectiveness of the CIA in the mid-1990s , in the wake of the catastrophic treason of CIA agent Aldrich Ames , and the CIA 's failure to identify the mole before lethal damage had been done to many of their operations worldwide
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
See No Evil (Baer book)