Courting Disaster
How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack

As my father handed me this book to read he told me, “It will make you mad.” He was right. Thiessen starts out with the following: “You should not be reading this book. I should not have been able to write it.” Powerful words from a man with 15 years in national security, and one who served in the Wh......more

OK, I generally try to avoid current news books as they tend to be shallow and a reiteration and piling on over what you hear each night on the various networks. Not so here. The author is highly knowledgeable on the subject and goes into great detail. Thiessen is the man who wrote GWB's speech reveal......more

Perhaps in a world removed from the highly charged one in which politics is carried out today we may yet arrive at a place where Thiessen's thesis can have a fair hearing and some of his self-serving comments be attributed to little more than a small dose of righteous anger. Published in 2009 we now......more

It took me forever to finish this book, but only because I was teaching a class for the first time. I see I started this book on Sept 3rd; my class started on Sept 8th. My class ended on Dec 13 and I finished the book on Jan 17th. Every time I took the book to bed, I ended up falling asleep. This bo......more