Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
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| Author | Bill Gertz |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | United States Politics Terrorism |
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Publisher | Plume |
Publication date | 27 May 2003 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| OCLC | 54081932 |
| 327.1273/009/045 21 | |
| LC Class | UB251.U6 G47 2003 |
Breakdown (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).) is a 2003 book by Bill Gertz arguing that U.S. intelligence services "lost sight of [their] purpose and function" due to Clinton administration policies that were more concerned with political correctness than with national defense.
Publishers Weekly gave it a mixed review, calling it "an unbalanced but revealing expose on the mistakes, misdirections and blunders behind 'the most damaging intelligence failure since Pearl Harbor.'"[1]
Sam Roberts writing in The New York Times credits Gertz with convincingly arguing that there was a failure within the American intelligence community, although "his well-argued case is occasionally freighted by his own predispositions."[2]
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