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[Viva_La_Revolution]

On Sunday, January 21 at 9:30 am and Monday, January 22 at 4:00 am
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On the Brink: An Insider's Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence
Tyler Drumheller

Tyler Drumheller spent all but three months of his 25-year career with the CIA undercover. In his new book "On the Brink," the former chief of the agency's clandestine operations in Europe looks at the Bush administration's evidence-gathering prior to the invasion of Iraq. He asserts that the administration pressured the CIA to confirm the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and that such actions will have long-term effects on the intelligence community.

Tyler Drumheller served in CIA posts around Africa and Europe before becoming chief of the agency's Europe division in the mid-90's. He became Chief of Clandestine Operations for Europe in 2001, where he served until his retirement in 2005. All but three months of his 25-year career were spent undercover.

[helderheid]

1. thank you! My kids have the TV hostage so I will stream. Recommended!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. review...

From Publishers Weekly
The highest ranking CIA official yet to write a book about the current war in Iraq, retired officer Drumheller looks back on his 25 years in intelligence to lay bare the Bush administration's push toward invasion and its long-term impact on U.S. intelligence gathering capabilities. Central to Drumheller's argument is the familiar story of the White House's reliance on the testimony of an Iraqi defector (who came to be known as "Curveball") in making its case for war; to that effect, there's much here that simply reiterates the critical chorus that "policy was shaping the intelligence and not the other way around," as do numerous recent Iraq war exposés. More interesting are the glimpses of well-known milestones in the run-up to the war, including a late-night call from CIA Director George Tenet the night before Colin Powell's infamous UN address, at which he presented Curveball's testimony on an Iraqi bioweapons program. With this story and others, Drumheller illustrates how the Bush administration left the CIA scrambling to clean up the ensuing mess when they should have been pursuing new threats: "The biggest difference between the current transition period and those in the past is that we are facing the added challenge of fighting off abuse and being made scapegoats by our political masters." Drumheller's book is a lucid account of the Bush administration's intelligence breakdown, hobbled only by its late arrival to the shelf.
http://www.amazon.com/Brink-Insiders-Compromised-American-Intelligence/dp/078671915X

[burythehatchet]

3. NOW can we impeach?

[helderheid]

4. no shit.

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[formercia]

6. It's about time

I hope it's not too little, too late.

[fooj]

7. Treasonous, rat bastards!

They must be held accountable.