The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War by Bill Gertz
A Review:
Unfortunately, Bill Gertz is not the household name he deserves to be. In the media it seems, only the propensity to lie and hew to a left-wing line brings widespread fame and fortune. Think Dan Rather, for example.
Instead, a conservative interested in the truth like Bill Gertz has to be content with a much smaller measure of fame - but he is entitled to a full measure of our respect for telling the truths the left-wing media won't allow on their pages or on their airwaves.
Here Gertz tells the story - which any intelligent American concerned with destiny of their nation can sense and see - of unelected bureaucrats who have for all intents and purposes become the government themselves.
For those who didn't pick up the bits and pieces as the stories emerged, Gertz lays them out in detail here.
For example, the absolute travesty of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that irreparably damaged the United States in its efforts to force Iran to end its nuclear weaponry program. The NIE was under the control of Thomas Fingar, a left-wing intelligence analyst at the State Department. Gertz's examination of this tragedy - and that is not too strong a term for it - is very complete and should make your blood boil if you are a real American.
That we had a President and Secretary of State who would permit this to happen and go both uncorrected and unpunished is deplorable.
Worse, President Bush allowed his Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, to publicly contradict him on a policy issue. While the incident demonstrated the weakness of Bush, it also demonstrated the power of the careerists in our national government.
Name the major issue facing the United States and Gertz can - and does - tell you how left-wingers in the national government, with their own agenda, are making their own policies without regard for genuine national interests.
This is not a cheerful book. It is, in a way, reminiscent of Winston Churchill's attempts to rouse a sleeping England, Europe and United States from their slumber in the 1930s and to confront the dangers facing them.
Published before the recent election, Gertz includes a penetrating analysis of the Democrat Presidential contenders, one of whom obviously won the election.
" Reforming the federal government bureaucracy must be the highest priority of the President of the United States, Gertz opines. The problem is that our next President will not be taking Gertz's advice. Instead he will be listening tothe very people Gertz identifies in this chilling book.
Dark days are ahead for the United States.