This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11.
Peter Dale Scott, whose previous books have investigated CIA involvement in southeast Asia, the drug wars, and the Kennedy assassination, here probes how the policies of presidents since Nixon have augmented the tangled bases for the 2001 terrorist attack. Scott shows how America's expansion into the world since World War II has led to momentous secret decision making at high levels. He demonstrates how these decisions by small cliques are responsive to the agendas of private wealth at the expense of the public, of the democratic state, and of civil society. He shows how, in implementing these agendas, U.S. intelligence agencies have become involved with terrorist groups they once backed and helped create, including al Qaeda.
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"Audiobook. Fascinating. Well-researched. Objective. Does not jump to conclusions. Asks more questions than it answers, but they are the questions that still need answers. Hopeful conclusion that the people of the US on both sides of the aisle can rise up against the deep state." — Malrubius (5 out of 5 stars)
"Audiobook. Fascinating. Well-researched. Objective. Does not jump to conclusions. Asks more questions than it answers, but they are the questions that still need answers. Hopeful conclusion that the people of the US on both sides of the aisle can rise up against the deep state."
" An important synthesis of what has happened and what must happen. "
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Raymond Todd is an actor and director in the theater as well as a poet and documentary filmmaker. He plays jazz trombone for the Leatherstocking quartet, an ensemble that gets its name from one of his favorite Blackstone narrations, The Deerslayer. Todd lives in New York.
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