Company man thirty years of controversy and crisis in the CIA
In 1975, fresh out of law school and working at the Treasury Department, John Rizzo took "a total shot in the dark" and sent his résumé to the Central Intelligence Agency. He had no notion that more than thirty years later, after serving under eleven CIA directors and seven presidents, h...
| Main Author: | Rizzo, John Anthony, 1947- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scribner,
2014.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The tale of the "torture tapes"
- Entering the secret club (1975-1976)
- Not your everyday legal issues (1977-1980)
- Ener William Casey and a whole new ball game (1981-1984)
- The calm before the storm (1985)
- The wheels come off (1986)
- Reality TV : the Iran-Contra hearings (1987)
- The Iran-Contra hangover (1988-1992)
- Dealing with devils (1993-1996)
- Bin Laden bursts out (1997-2001)
- The attacks and the response (September 2001-January 2002)
- The birth of the Enhanced Interrogation Program (2002)
- Trouble on the EIT front, and the Valerie Plame diversion (2003-2004)
- Enter Porter Goss (2005)
- An offer I couldn't refuse (2006)
- Out of the shadows and into the spotlight (2007)
- A failed nomination, and the end of a program (2007-2008)
- The arrival of Obama, and a long goodbye (2009)
- Postscript
- Epilogue : lessons learned and a look forward.