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The Black Banners

the Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al-Qaeda
May 20, 2012richibi rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
a power struggle at the very top between the CIA and the FBI is exposed convincingly at the level of the interrogators in the field by an agent at the very centre of the Al-Qaeda investigation, the CIA wins the power match, decisively, with the help of their bigger stick, the Bush Administration, but later lose, or at least significantly prolong, the still ongoing war for the sake of their outsized arrogance, the FBI gets the moral highground later but little else; the author is apparently one of only a handful of American agents who could speak Arabic in this global conflict, this seems awfully organizationally incompetent to me from a purportedly responsible government, even superpower, he also suggests he could have, and within the strictures of our moral standards and the ideals of their Constittution, prevented 9/11, wow - blurred only by wholesale CIA redactions