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Author Thiessen, Marc A.

Title Courting disaster : how the CIA kept America safe and how Barack Obama is inviting the next attack / by Marc A. Thiessen
Published Washington, D.C. : Regnery Pub. ; New York : Distributed to the trade by Perseus Distribution, [2010]
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Description 484 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents "Sheikh Osama warned you" -- "Hell, yes!" -- "How could the CIA be so stupid?" -- "You must do this for all the brothers" -- "You did the right thing" -- Tough, not torture -- "Absolute evil?" -- "Hard choices" -- "Double agents" -- "I want to go back to Guantanamo" -- Throat-slitters, not sheep herders -- "A present for Obama" -- Courting disaster -- "You've got a harder job" -- The trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [443]-472) and index
Subject Obama, Barack.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Intelligence service -- United States.
National security -- United States.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States.
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410 -- 2009-
United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009003409
LC no. 2009053965
ISBN 9781596986039 (alk. paper)