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The Watchdogs Didn't Bark
The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror | John Duffy, Ray Nowosielski
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The Shocking Reexamination of Unexplored Failures by Government Officials to Use Available Intelligence to Stop the Events of September 11th In 2009, documentarians John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski arrived at the offices of Richard Clarke, the former counterterror adviser to Presidents Clinton and Bush. In the meeting, Clarke boldly accused one-time Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet of “malfeasance and misfeasance” in the pre-war on terror. Thus began an incredible—never-before-told—investigative journey of intrigue about America’s intelligence community and two 9/11 hijackers. The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark details that story, unearthed over a ten-year investigation. Following the careers of a dozen counterterror employees working in different agencies of the US government from the late 1980s to the present, the book puts the government’s systems of oversight and accountability under a microscope. At the heart of this book is a mystery: Why did key 9/11 plotters Khalid Al Mihdhar and Nawaf Al Hazmi, operating inside the United States, fall onto the radars of so many US agencies without any of those agencies succeeding in stopping the attacks? The answers go beyond mere “conspiracy theory” and “deep state” actors, but instead find a complicated set of potential culprits and an easily manipulated system. Taking readers on a character-driven account of the causes of 9/11 and how the lessons of the attacks were cynically inverted to empower surveillance of citizens, kidnapping, illegal imprisonment, torture, government-sanctioned murder, and a war on whistleblowers and journalists, an alarm is raised which is more pertinent today than ever before.
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Ignore the "truther" lunatics and read this book instead, which is based in reality. It chronicles the intelligence failures that lead up to 9/11, specifically the CIA's failure to share intelligence with other agencies due to bureaucratic infighting, oversized egos, and an attempt to "flip" members of Al Qaeda, despite knowing that several of the hijackers were living here for more than a year prior to 9/11 and plotting an attack using airplanes.

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SERIOUSLY? Prior to 9/11, the terrorist watch list didn‘t apply to domestic flights?! How does that make sense? Did they assume that domestic flights were magically incapable of being hijacked?

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Former White House counterterror advisor Richard Clarke, explaining why two of the 9/11 hijackers were not brought to justice, even though they were on the CIA's radar.

Suet624 What do you think of the book? 5y
keithmalek It's good just as long as you don't mind being severely pissed off. 5y
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