James Risen

State of War

The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration

Buch

James Risen has broken story after story on the abuses of power of the Bush administration.From warrantless wiretapping to secret financial data mining to the CIA's rogue operations, he has shown again and again that the executive branch has dangerously overreached, repudiated checks and balances on its power, and maintained secrecy even with its allies in Congress. In no small part thanks to Risen and State of War, the secret history of the Bush years has now come partially into view. In a new epilogue for the paperback edition, Risen describes the two-front war that President Bush is now fighting: at home against Congress and the Supreme C… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7432-7067-0
EAN: 9780743270670
Produktnummer: 2545803
Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H21.4 cm x B14.2 cm x D2.2 cm 253 g
Abbildungen: index; notes
Gewicht: 253

Über den Autor

James Risen covers national security for The New York Times. He was a member of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2002 for coverage of September 11 and terrorism, and he is the coauthor of Wrath of Angels and The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB. He lives outside Washington, D.C., with his wife and three sons.