This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11. Peter Dale Scott, whose previous books have investigated CIA involvement in southeast Asia, the drug wars, and the Kennedy assassination, here probes how the policies of presidents since Nixon have augmented the tangled bases for the 2001 terrorist attack. Scott shows how America's expansion into the world since World War II has led to momentous secret decision making at high levels. He demonstrates how these decisions by small cliques are responsive to the agendas of private wealth at the expense of the public, of the democratic state, and of civil society. He shows how, in implementing these agendas, U.S. intelligence agencies have become involved with terrorist groups they once backed and helped create, including al Qaeda.You can read an exclusive excerpt here.
3 comments:
A Prof from Berkeley. Now there's an unbiased opinion. He does nothing but rehash the same history that anyone over the age of 50 has read and studied about in school. It's a mean dangerous world out there with lots of enemies and sometimes you have to fight dirty to defeat evil. The ends justifies the means.
EEHHWWWHHHH. EVIL! What are you soooo scared of?
Give us a break.
The problem is this administration has USED that over blown threat of "evil" to trash the constitution and ruin the future of the nation.
How very open minded, anon. You look at where the professor is employed and decide on that basis alone that the book is worthless. If he taught at Bob Jones University would you want to read it?
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