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Enemies
The History of the FBI at War
Downloadable Audiobook - 2012 | Library edition, Unabridged
Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. We think of the FBI as America's police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau's first and foremost mission. Enemies is the story of how presidents have used the FBI as the most formidable intelligence force in American history...
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Publisher:
New York : Books on Tape, 2012
Edition:
Library edition, Unabridged
ISBN:
9780307933966
0307933962
0307933962
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1 audio file (2 hr., 55 min., 9 sec.) : digital
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Add a CommentYet another frightening, exhaustively-researched history from Tim Weiner. Where the CIA comes across as devastatingly incompetent and utterly callous, the FBI comes across as frighteningly competent and powerful, at least in its middle years under J. Edgar Hoover. Abuses of power are rampant in the pages of this book, with Richard Nixon simply being the most obvious example.
Read this, and realize just how little the U.S. deserves its self-proclaimed reputation as a worldwide champion of freedom and equality.