Sabotage: America's Enemies Within the CIA

by Rowan Scarborough

Book Overview

How Bush-hating CIA Bureaucrats Are Sabotaging the War on Terror Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, intelligence collection has become the number-one weapon in the effort to defeat al Qaeda and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596985100
• ISBN13: 9781596985100
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The 600 pound Gorilla

An interesting read and I have to agree with him on most of it but some conclusions are missed. With the V. Plame issue he missed a huge problem. Nigeria's economy is based on exporting yellow cake Uranium. Shouldn't we be asking how it came to pass that we don't have agents or a field office in a country that has for its number one export Uranium? There are many examples of this. As far as appointing persons to be in charge of national security, shouldn't we have people in charge who are from the field? Not policy paper writers? Also, why are we not prosecuting the people who leak that are working at the CIA? Aren't the carrying a security clearance? He does make the case that the CIA is riddled with Left wingers who are anti-American. Like many of the democrat senators we have today, they profess to love America but think that our government is the embodiment of evil. So they act like some sort of French resistance to destroy it from within. The book is well written and details out the facts very well. For the lefties who cry that he is demoralizing the CIA, please feel free to explain why a person with a top secret clearance should be allowed his freedom when he leaks secret programs to a senator or the press when he or she disapproves of the program? Since this person was not elected, nor is he or she in a position to dictate National Security Policy, why should they not go straight to jail for the rest of their life?

A fair Question: Is the CIA a Traitorous Institution?

Rowan Scarborough demolishes the stereotype of the CIA as a bastion of reactionary conservatism. It is instead, he convincingly argues, a politically correct leftist institution similar to the professoriate of our "elite" universities. Many of the CIA's employees are contemptuous toward the U.S. Constitution. They even maliciously and arbitrarily betray our elected leaders. The CIA is, to be brutally frank, turning out to be the weak link in our fight against Islamic nihilism. It is literally endangering our lives and those of our loved ones. Sabotage is not too strong a description of the CIA's overall behavior. Might a case even be made that many of its operatives and bureaucrats are traitors? The author may not wish to go that far. I personally have no hesitation in doing so. You can make up your own mind. Can the CIA even be saved? Would someone like the management specialist Peter Drucker conclude the situation is beyond hope? Was the Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan right on target when suggesting that the CIA be disbanded some two decades ago? Has it outlived its original usefulness? Such questions will unavoidably cross your mind while reading "Sabotage: America's Enemies Within the CIA." You should obtain a copy immediately. It is truly that important of a book.

The truth the bureaucrats at the CIA will hate to read

Scarborough has written about the Washington scene for the Washington Times and now the DC Examiner for many years. Unlike his counterparts at the Washington Post, he has access to the political policy people and does not rely on the bureaucrats who stumble and bumble for decades messing up the nation's spy agency before they retire. So Scarborough actually writes things that the agency's drones have spent their careers trying to cover up, which is, the agency's massively stupid approach to its job of protecting the USA via collecting actionable intelligence about our enemies. This book does not go into the full history of the CIA screw-ups that Tim Weiner does in his Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA but concentrates more on recent history, where Wiener's book is rather poor, but shows that the country would probably be better served if we closed down the CIA and started again from scratch. The great part of this book is that it reveals that most of the shoe clerks who view themselves as intelligence experts are really little different than their counterparts at the Agriculture Department, inept, lazy, and more willing to spend time covering up their incompetence than making the country safer by doing real intelligence work out in the field instead of from behind the desks in their air conditioned offices A great example is how the CIA did not have a single agent in Niger, one of the few countries able to produce yellowcake uranium, and which had sold thousands of tons of it to Saddam in the 1980's and 90's (where it still sits in warehouses) in spite of the proliferation of nuclear programs in Pakistan, Iran, North Korea and other places. The fact that the agency had to send an unemployed ex-ambassador, to visit this country for a week and then come back with a report that actually verified the Iraqis had tried to "improve trade" with Niger ( a country which has no other exports of value other than uranium) in spite of his claims notwithstanding, is but one example. Did the CIA insist on a written report after spending thousands for this boondoggle? Nope. Did they make him sign the standard confidentiality agreement for such assignments? Nope. Did they follow up with their counterparts such as MI5 in the UK? Yes. And ignored the MI5 information, which they still stand by to this day, that Iraq was trying to buy more yellowcake. (And this is not referring to the fake Italian documents planted many months after Wilson's wife suggested him for the mission) There are many examples of just how effective the entrenched bureaucrats at the agency have been in fighting any attempt at reform, and the list of names of those who battled them and lost is very long. As Wiener points out in his book, this is an agency that going back to Eisenhower, has a legacy of ashes, and as the hole in the ground where the World Trade Center once stood exemplifies, it is an agency whose incompetence has become lethal to those whom they are supposedly in business

Face the facts

As Americans, we have to face the truths in this book. The Democratic Party is working against it's own country w/in the CIA and beyond. It has sold out fellow Americans - Republicans and other non-Dems - and become its own entity and power in the world. Unless they're holding the reins of power in D.C. then there is no legitimate America in their eyes. They have taken partisanship to very dangerous and un-American levels - it is unprecedented in history (excluding the Civil War). Unfortunately, the liberal media supports them 110%. Eventually, it will ruin their party but in the meantime, all of America suffers from their disunifying treason.

ABSOLUTELY ON THE MARK!

Bush should have fired every Clinton appointee as soon as he took office. There is a saying at the CIA that goes: "There are no spies or Republicans here." After Carter decimated the CIA in 1976 and Clinton finished the job, their intel output is nil. READ THIS BOOK!