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    The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
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    The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
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    The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth

    Written by Mark Mazzetti

    Narrated by Richard Ferrone

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times journalist Mark Mazzetti has won numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. In The Way of the Knife, Mazzetti offers a riveting account of how the CIA and special ops forces have been transformed to accommodate the new American way of war. From killer drones to clandestine spy networks, today’s non-battlefield methods of fighting are no longer bound by rules of wartime accountability.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books Audio
    Release dateApr 9, 2013
    ISBN9781470361051
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    The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth

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      The story of how the CIA and the US military criss-crossed, with the military taking on increased intelligence gathering functions and the CIA carrying out more kill missions, after 9/11. Rather than consolidating, we just doubled down on having multiple agencies on the ground, sometimes working at cross purposes. We handed out millions of dollars—billions—going to private contractors and often enough to people who used our money and our weapons against us. Mazzetti contends that the seductiveness of drone strikes has led first the Bush administration and then the Obama administration to define success as having lots of kills, with no attention to whether we (a) know anything about the people who hate us and the countries they’re in or (b) are creating more enemies than we get rid of with each strike. Traditional intelligence has been subordinated to James Bond kill missions, to our detriment. Obama doesn’t come off well, giving the CIA everything it wants, but Bush is particularly pathetic, continuing to believe that Musharraf had wholly committed Pakistan to the US side when it was obvious to everyone else, including the other Americans, that he and his government were favoring the Taliban and more concerned about fighting India than helping the US hunt the people we deemed terrorists.