Bill Harlow

El funcionamiento de la CIA y la vida de sus agentes.Michael Morell, que ha sido director adjunto de la CIA de 2010 a 2013, estaba junto al presidente Bush el 11 de septiembre de 2001, cuando se produjo el ataque a las torres gemelas, y junto al presidente Obama el 2 de mayo de 2011, mientras se desarrollaba la operacion que condujo a la muerte de Osama bin Laden. Durante estos años, Morell ha estado en el centro de la politica norteamericana de informacion y de guerra en las sombras. Sus memorias nos muestran con una nueva luz la historia de la guerra contra el terror, vista desde los lugares de direccion: la intervencion en Afganistan, los errores que condujeron a la guerra de Irak, la lucha contra al-Qaeda, la frustracion de la Primavera arabe, el caso SnowdenMorell, que trata de justificar el uso de la tortura en los interrogatorios y admite que no siempre han apoyado la democracia, nos lleva al centro mismo del poder y nos muestra como se toman realmente las decisiones, con margenes de duda e incertidumbre que se ocultan al publico.

Two brothers - one a presidential press secretary, the other a maverick captain of a Navy destroyer - scramble to prevent a Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafis plot to use chemical weapons against Israel and the United States in this absorbing thriller.Jim Schmidt is a master of the spin. As White House press secretary, his job is to cajole, sweet-talk, and otherwise persuade the nations most powerful journalists to play a story the way the White House wants it played. Bill Schmidt, Jims younger brother, is equally skillful, but in a different realm. He is the charismatic captain of the USS Winston Churchill and he leads an able but rambunctious crew with a penchant for causing well-publicized "liberty incidents" around the Mediterranean.Both men instinctively understand their jobs, but more important, they understand how power works: He who controls the facts controls the response. So when the United States learns of a Libyan plot to drop a planeload of chemical weapons on the Israeli Knesset, the brothers-- thousands of miles apart-- unexpectedly find themselves working together to defeat the plan. Their first step is to set "Circle William," a Navy phrase meaning to prepare for chemical, germ, or nuclear attack.As Jim huddles with the countrys top defense and intelligence officials to plot a viable strategy to prevent the strike, Bill, on the front line of the crisis, prepares to implement the plan. Complicating their mission is the inconvenient presence of Sue ODell, a smart Washington Post Style reporter who wants to write a story on the commander and his notorious ship.How the brothers counter the Libyan threat and how they spin the story make Circle William as much a story of international terrorism as it is a contemporary political thriller.Drawing from his more than two decades in the U.S. Navy, his work inside the Pentagon and from his tenure as an assistant White House press secretary, Bill Harlow combines the insiders detail of Primary Colors with the technical expertise of The Hunt for Red October. Harlows Circle William is as authentic and as chilling as any news event and is an impressive debut by a writer with an intimate knowledge of the workings of Washington, the military, and international terrorism.

Similarly to See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agencyfull of secrets and mystery. Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell was a top CIA officer who played a critical role in the most important counterterrorism events of the past two decades. Morell was by President Bushs side when terrorists struck America on 9/11 and in the White House Situation Room advising President Obama when America struck backkilling Osama bin Laden. From the subway bombings in London to the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Morell always seemed to find himself on the cusp of history. A superb intelligence analyst and briefer, Morell now presents The Great War of Our Time, where he uses his talents to offer an unblinking and insightful assessment of CIAs counterterrorism successes and failures of the past twenty years and, perhaps most importantly, shows readers that the threat of terrorism did not die with Bin Laden in Abbottabad. Morell illuminates new, growing threats from terrorist groups that, if unaddressed, could leave the country vulnerable to attacks that would dwarf 9/11 in magnitude. Along the way Morell provides intimate portraits of the leadership styles of figures ranging from Presidents Bush and Obama, CIA directors Tenet, Goss, Hayden, Petraeus, Panetta, and Brennan, and a host of others.

As seen on 60 MinutesA New York Times bestselling, explosive memoir about the creation and implementation of the controversial enhanced interrogation techniques by the former Chief Operations Officer for the CIAs Center for Counterterrorism.Former Chief of the CIAs Center for Counterterrorism, Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr., reveals how, in the wake of 9/11, government-approved hard measures used on captured high-level al-Qaida operatives derailed terrorist threats to the US, contributed to the capture of Osama bin Laden, and saved countless American lives. That is, until initial support gave way to shortsighted political correctness, leaving those responsible for protecting our nation second-guessed, hamstrung, and investigated. In effect, the United States has chosen to willfully and unilaterally disarm itself in the war on terror.Rodriguez melds his fascinating life story with a reasoned, previously untold, and convincing case for hard measures. Fully disclosing explosive details of when and how they were used, and why these methods were necessary, he offers a rare insiders look at an issue that seizes public attention and inspires vigorous debate.

In the dark days immediately after 9/11, the CIA turned to Dr. James Mitchell to help craft an interrogation program designed to elicit intelligence from just-captured top al-Qaida leaders and terror suspects. A civilian contractor who had spent years training U.S. military members to resist interrogation should they be captured, Mitchell, aware of the urgent need to prevent impending catastrophic attacks, worked with the CIA to implement "enhanced interrogation techniques"--which included waterboarding.In Enhanced Interrogation, Mitchell now offers a first-person account of the EIT program, providing a contribution to our historical understanding of one of the most controversial elements of Americas ongoing war on terror. Readers will follow him inside the secretive "black sites" and cells of terrorists and terror suspects where he personally applied enhanced interrogation techniques. Mitchell personally questioned thirteen of the most senior high-value detainees in U.S. custody, including Abu Zubaydah; Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the amir or "commander" of the USS Cole bombing; and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, terror attacks--obtaining information that he maintains remains essential to winning the war against al-Qaida and informing our strategy to defeat ISIS and all of radical Islam.From the interrogation programs earliest moments to its darkest hours, Mitchell also lifts the curtain on its immediate effects, the controversy surrounding its methods, and its downfall. He shares his view that EIT, when applied correctly, were useful in drawing detainees to cooperate, and that, when applied incorrectly, they were counter-productive. He also chronicles what it is like to undertake a several-years-long critical mission at the request of the government only to be hounded for nearly a decade afterward by congressional investigations and Justice Department prosecutors.Gripping in its detail and deeply illuminating, Enhanced Interrogation argues that it is necessary for America to take strong measures to defend itself from its enemies and that the country is less safe now without them than it was before 9/11.