Have you read "The Great War of Our Time" by Ross Kaminsky? What did you think of it?

The men and women of the CIA work quietly — it’s generally not a great day for a spy when he finds his name in the news. So former deputy director of the CIA Michael Morell must have been none too happy when he became the focal point of a hyper-political story – which remains in the public consciousness more than two years later — about changes made to the Obama administration’s talking points following the murder of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya.

Mr. Morell’s career at the highest levels of the CIA reaches back much further than that, however: Over the last two decades of his 33 years at the CIA, the agency has been involved in some of the most consequential decisions made by the American government, including going to war in Iraq based on the belief that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, our policy toward Egypt at the beginning of the Arab Spring, finding and killing Osama Bin Laden, and, tangentially, the debate over government collection of Americans’ communications data. Today, the CIA plays an important role in — perhaps even dominates — U.S. foreign policy in the ongoing War on Terror.

Morell has written a riveting and important memoir of the CIA’s participation in these events, which offers an admirable amount of self-criticism (alongside some cheerleading), as well as a rare glimpse into the daily life and mindset of someone at the top of the spy game.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418608/what-one-cias-top-men-thinks-about-benghazi-snowden-isis-and-more-ross-kaminsky

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