Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI
by Richard Gid Powers
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Author: Richard Gid PowersEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-10-19
ISBN: 0684833719
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Free Press
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then immediately read 1000 Years for Revenge by Peter Lance. Both books bear witness to the fact that FBI management is comprised of failed agents who hide behind desks because they can't make it as a Street Agent. They couldn't find a ham in a phone booth. They are wholly incapable of interviewing anybody;just read about NYC manager Carson Dunbar's treatment of an informant who knew plenty about both attacks on the WTC. Dunbar's incompetence is far worse than that of the military bosses at the time of the Pearl Harbor Attack. One point both authors omit is the high percentage of alcoholics in the management ranks of the FBI. Powers is a talented writer/historian whose earlier bio of Gay Edgar Hoover was truly monumental.
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