Posted on 12/06/2007 1:03:30 AM PST by airedale
Book Description “An alarming but necessary book that reads like a thriller. By raising uncomfortable questions, Ken Timmerman has performed a significant public service.” –Michael Medved, nationally syndicated talk radio host
Some have called it the CIA’s greatest covert operation of all time.
It is an intelligence war conducted behind the scenes, aimed at confusing, misleading, and ultimately defeating the enemy. The goal is nothing less than toppling the regime in power. A network of agents has been planted at key crossroads of power, stealing secrets, planting disinformation, and cooking intelligence. The plan involves sophisticated political sabotage operations that bring in opposition forces who can challenge the regime openly, in a way the CIA cannot. The scope is breathtaking.
Who is the target of this vast, sophisticated CIA operation? Not the mullahs in Tehran or North Korea’s power-mad Kim Jong Il; the target is America’s president, George W. Bush.
Drawing on exclusive information from senior government officials, intelligence operatives, and many others, investigative reporter Kenneth Timmerman provides the full, untold story of the sabotage that occurs behind the scenes at key government agencies like the CIA and State Department–and the profound effect it has on America’s ability to confront its most dangerous enemies. In Shadow Warriors, Timmerman brings to light the vast underground working to undercut our nation’s efforts to win the war on terror–revealing the when, where, how, and who for the first time. He also exposes the Democratic politicians who have sold out America’s national security for political gain.
In Shadow Warriors you’ll learn:
•How the CIA and State Department sabotaged the administration’s Iraq war plans from the start–sparking the insurgency in the process •How a high-level State Department official gathered aides after Bush’s reelection to insist they owed no allegiance to the president or his policies •How pre-war intelligence on Iraq was cooked–not by the Bush administration, but by its opponents •How and why the shadow warriors have leaked details of virtually every covert U.S. intelligence tool used in the war on terror •How the leaks have devastated our efforts to fight terrorism–such as when a key U.S. ally rebuffed the CIA director’s request for assistance by saying, “You Americans can’t keep secrets” •Why U.S. intelligence refused to examine important documents detailing the secret Iraqi networks that became the heart of the insurgency •How newly discovered Iraqi government documents reveal the extent of Saddam Hussein’s ties to international terrorists and the truth about his WMD arsenal
Shadow Warriors shows that George W. Bush never got the first rule of Washington: People are policy. He allowed his political enemies to run roughshod over his administration. This insider’s look at secret White House meetings, political backstabbing, and war-room summits is an eye-opening account of the mind-set that is crippling our effectiveness in Iraq and around the world.
About the Author KENNETH R. TIMMERMAN is the New York Times bestselling author of Countdown to Crisis, The French Betrayal of America, Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America, and Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq. In 2006 he was nominated of the Nobel Peace Prize for his groundbreaking reporting on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. He lives near Washington, D.C., with his family.
They are worse.
I am not the least surprised about any of that.
At the start of every Democrat administration there is as much of a purge as they can get away with. Heads fall all over Washington DC as every identifiable conservative that can be removed, demoted, transferred or otherwise made irrelevant is ruthlessly weeded out.
Alas, at the start o ever Republican administration, the Democrat appointees use every trick, hook, crook or legal to keep their troops in every high-level position they can. Always, of course, with the eager assistance to the press and the strident clamor of the Democrats in Congress who fight tooth and nail to ensure their power base in the bureaucracies remains as strong as possible.
Bush, from day one, has been a disappointment to me. The absolutely first thing he should have done was demand the resignation of every single U.S. Attorney (exactly like Clinton did), the second thing he should have done was to rescind each and every Executive Order Clinton signed within the time Gore lost the election and the time he took office.
The third thing he should have done was ignore the screeches of outrage from the press and the Democrats and ruthlessly weed out absolutely every single holdover from the Clinton administration that he could identify and had the power to purge.
He did none of that and ended up at the head of an administration that, at all but the highest levels, was opposed to his VERY EXISTENCE from the onset, let along willing to work towards furthering his policies.
I pray to Dear God Almighty that if we are fortunate enough to get Fred or Duncan in office next year that either one of them will have the guts and gumption to go after these backstabbing scumbags currently holding down slots that he needs and give them to genuine Conservatives who will work to further his policies.
If not, the same damn thing is going to happen again.
I think one of the main hidden originators of the problem, are government unions. They band together to formulate policy contrary to the Executive.
AMEN!
Amen.
“I think one of the main hidden originators of the problem, are government unions.”
I have long suspected the same thing. The unions, with the protection of the media, pretty much rules our nation through a system of career bureaucrats that often can’t be legally fired unless they violate criminal law.
I’m sure that’s a bit over simplified, but as an outsider looking in, that’s the appearance it gives.
Timmerman is a fine journalist, with great sources. Too bad he didn’t win that U.S. Senate seat.
you’re right, and it starts at the local post office. In all my life, probably millions of pieces of mail, I have never received a magazine the cover of which was like that of the Time (or whatever) I got with Bush’s picture just after all the disputes about the Florida vote were settled in 2000— a razor blade had been drawn with surgical precision diagonally across his face, deep enough to penetrate the cover but not so much as page 1.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2004 : (”TRUTH TELLING COALITION” ANYTHING BUT -— SEE VIPS, ELLSBERG, National Security Whistleblowers Coalition aka NSWBC) “For three years now, we in Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) have been saying that the CIA and its British counterpart, MI-6, were ordered by their countries’ leaders to “fix facts” to “justify” an unprovoked war on Iraq.”
“Those of us who care about unprovoked wars owe the patriot who gave this latest British government document to The Sunday Times a debt of gratitude. Unauthorized disclosures are gathering steam. They need to increase quickly on this side of the Atlantic as well—the more so, inasmuch as Congress-controlled by the president’s party-cannot be counted on to discharge its constitutional prerogative for oversight.
In its formal appeal of Sept. 9, 2004 to current U.S. government officials, the Truth-Telling Coalition said this:
We know how misplaced loyalty to bosses, agencies, and careers can obscure the higher allegiance all government officials owe the Constitution, the sovereign public, and the young men and women put in harm’s way. We urge you to act on those higher loyalties...Truth-telling is a patriotic and effective way to serve the nation. The time for speaking out is now.
If persons with access to wrongly concealed facts and analyses bring them to light, the chances become less that a president could launch another unprovoked war—against, say, Iran.” ————http://www.oldright.com/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=14
From a post on that page titled “Proof Bush Fixed The Facts by Ray McGovern”:493 posted on 07/26/2005 9:09:19 PM PDT by Wendy44
This sounds interesting, I’d like to read it.
Signed, MARY MCCARTHY.
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There is a "Mandarin" class that goes into government service from schools like Harvard and Georgetown.
They hold themselves as accountable to no one but themselves.
They need to be ruthlessly purged from government, but I don't think it is possible any more.
I totally agree.
Read the sentence. Read your post. Don't need to read the book. As the author and you accurately state, Bush left literally thousands of Clinton appointees in place in every agency's management roles.
But after this 8 years, my anger has turned to cynicism. I have worked in DC extensively and I can tell you that while Bush is the awful macrocosm, most Republican officeholders traditionally seem to follow the same thought process in their individual microcosm. As a general rule, the core staffs of Republican Congressmen and Senators are routinely dominated by Democrats.
The sad truth is that our government's routine operational "default" mindset is far to the left. Republicans are viewed as temporary annoyances who ought not be allowed to dabble in the day-to-day management of government affairs too deeply.
Apparently that's OK with those who run the Republican Party.
There is always the assumption that we (the civilian population not fully submitted to the witless leftisms) will continue to behave in a civil manner, simply because we have tended to do so in the past.
Not a safe assumption, me thinks.
Sounds like an intriguing book. This would be its fictional counterpart... http://anonymoussedition.com/
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