Bob Drogin:Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War
- gebrauchtes Buch 1999, ISBN: 9781588367365
Curveball answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America's intelligence so catastrophically wrong? In this dramatic and explosive book, award-winning Los Angeles Ti… Mehr…
Curveball answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America's intelligence so catastrophically wrong? In this dramatic and explosive book, award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Bob Drogin delivers a narrative that takes us to Europe, the Middle East, and deep inside the CIA to find the truth-the truth about the lies and self-deception that led us into a military and political nightmare. In 1999, a mysterious Iraqi applies for political Curveball answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America's intelligence so catastrophically wrong? In this dramatic and explosive book, award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Bob Drogin delivers a narrative that takes us to Europe, the Middle East, and deep inside the CIA to find the truth-the truth about the lies and self-deception that led us into a military and political nightmare. In 1999, a mysterious Iraqi applies for political asylum in Munich. The young chemical engineer offers compelling testimony of Saddam Hussein's secret program to build weapons of mass destruction. He claims that the dictator has constructed germ factories on trucks, creating a deadly hell on wheels. His grateful German hosts pass his account to their CIA counterparts but deny the Americans access to their superstar informant. The Americans nevertheless give the defector his unforgettable code name: Curveball. The case lies dormant until after 9/11, when the Bush administration turns its attention to Iraq. Determined to invade, Bush's people seize on Curveball's story about mobile germ labs-even though it has begun to unravel. Ignoring a flood of warnings about the informant's credibility, the CIA allows President Bush to cite Curveball's unconfirmed claims in a State of the Union speech. Finally, Secretary of State Colin Powell highlights the Iraqi's "eyewitness" account during his historic address to the U.N. Security Council. Yet the entire case is based on a fraud. America's vast intelligence apparatus conjured up demons that did not exist. And the proof was clear before the war. Most of the events and conversations presented here have not been reported before. The portrayals-from an obdurate president to a bamboozled secretary of state to a bungling CIA director to case handlers conned by their snitch-are vivid and exciting. Curveball EBooks, Books~~History~~General, Curveball~~Bob-Drogin, 1309822, Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War, Bob Drogin, 1588367363, Random House Publishing Group, , , , , Random House Publishing Group<
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“A crucial study in the political manipulation of intelligence, understanding how Curveball got us into Iraq will arm us for the next round of lies coming out of Washington.”&… Mehr…
“A crucial study in the political manipulation of intelligence, understanding how Curveball got us into Iraq will arm us for the next round of lies coming out of Washington.”—Robert Baer, author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on TerrorismCurveball answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America’s intelligence so catastrophically wrong? In this dramatic and explosive book, award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Bob Drogin delivers a narrative that takes us to Europe, the Middle East, and deep inside the CIA to find the truth—the truth about the lies and self-deception that led us into a military and political nightmare.Praise for Curveball“Just when you thought the WMD debacle couldn’t get worse, here comes veteran Los Angeles Times national-security correspondent Drogin’s look at just who got the stories going in the first place. . . . Simultaneously sobering and infuriating—essential reading for those who follow the headlines.”—Kirkus Reviews “In this engrossing account, Los Angeles Times correspondent Drogin paints an intimate and revealing portrait of the workings and dysfunctions of the intelligence community.”—Publishers Weekly “An insightful and compelling account of one crucial component of the war's origins . . . Had Drogin merely pieced together Curveball's story, it alone would have made for a thrilling book. But he provides something more: a frightening glimpse at how easily we could make the same mistakes again. . . . The real value of Drogin's book is its meticulous demonstration that bureaucratic imperative often leads to self-delusion.”—Washington Monthly “Drogin delivers a startling account of this fateful intelligence snafu.”—Booklist “By the time you finish this book you will be shaking your head with wonder, or perhaps you will be shaking with anger, about the misadventures that preceded the misadventures in Iraq. This book is so powerful, it almost refutes its subtitle: The man called Curveball did not cause a war; he became a pretext—one among many.”—George F. Will Digital Content>E-books>Current Affairs>Domestic Affairs>Domestic Affairs, Random House Publishing Group Digital >16<
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Random House Publishing Group:Curveball
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Curveball answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America's intelligence so catastrophically wrong? In this dramatic and explosive book, award-winning Los Angeles Ti… Mehr…
Curveball answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America's intelligence so catastrophically wrong? In this dramatic and explosive book, award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Bob Drogin delivers a narrative that takes us to Europe, the Middle East, and deep inside the CIA to find the truththe truth about the lies and self-deception that led us into a military and. Curveball answers the crucial question of the Iraq war: How and why was America's intelligence so catastrophically wrong? In this dramatic and explosive book, award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Bob Drogin delivers a narrative that takes us to Europe, the Middle East, and deep inside the CIA to find the truththe truth about the lies and self-deception that led us into a military and political nightmare. eBooks, History and Transport~~History, Curveball~~EBook~~9781588367365~~Bob Drogin, , Curveball, Bob Drogin, 9781588367365, Random House Publishing Group, 10/30/2007, , , , Random House Publishing Group<
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