James Risen is een correspondent voor nationale veiligheid bij The New York Times. Zijn werk werd bekroond met een Pulitzerprijs voor zijn berichtgeving over 11 september en terrorisme. Hij onderzoekt de ingewikkelde werking van nationale veiligheid en inlichtingen.
Witnesses were mysteriously murdered. The FBI, NSA, CIA, and even the IRS were on the warpath. It was 1975, and a senator named Frank Church stood almost alone in the face of extraordinary abuses of power.
War corrupts. Endless war corrupts absolutely. Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: from squandered and stolen dollars, to outrageous abuses of power, to wars on normalcy, decency, and truth. In the name of fighting terrorism, our government has done things every bit as shameful as its historic wartime abuses — and until this book, it has worked very hard to cover them up. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. FDR authorized the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans. Presidents Bush and Obama now must face their own reckoning. Power corrupts, but it is endless war that corrupts absolutely.
Talks about the secret intelligence scandals of the Bush administration and a US national security bureaucracy run amok. This title features a president who created a sphere of deniability, in which his top aides were briefed on matters of the utmost sensitivity - but the president was carefully kept in ignorance.
Written from the unique perspective of a veteran CIA insider, this book details the intelligence struggles between the CIA and KGB in the last days of the Cold War, covering ground from the Vatican to Baghdad to Kabul and culminating in the atrocities of September 11th 2001.