Within 48 hours of taking office, President Obama eliminated our most effective weapon in the War on Terror: the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program. Several months later he released sensitive documents detailing our interrogation methods of high-value terrorists.
By eliminating proven tactics and exposing our secrets to the enemy, Obama not only opened up the door to the next 9/11, but unleashed a flood of recrimination against the intelligence officers who have protected us for the past nine years.
“Barack Obama did arguably more damage to America’s national security in his first 100 days of office than any president in American history,” says author Marc Thiessen in his shocking new book, Courting Disaster: How The CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack.
Courting Disaster reveals–as no other book has–just how close we’ve come to the next 9/11 and how enhanced interrogation techniques (including waterboarding) have saved us from numerous would-be terrorist attacks.
Offering a behind-the-scenes look at the CIA’s “black sites,” Thiessen also provides substantial evidence to prove the tactics used by the CIA were not only effective, but lawful and morally just.
As former chief speechwriter for George W. Bush and author of Bush’s famous 2006 speech defending the CIA program, Thiessen was given unprecedented access to some of the most sensitive intelligence our government possessed on the interrogation of al Qaeda terrorists. And he is acknowledged as knowing more about the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program than almost anyone outside the interrogators themselves.
Courting Disaster reveals:
Why the CIA tactics were NOT torture and not even close to those used in Nazi Germany or the Spanish Inquisition
The unique tenet in Jihadist ideology that releases terrorists from withholding information during interrogation
Why detainees actually thanked CIA officials for using the enhanced techniques
How the Obama administration won’t even let our intelligence officers use interrogation methods that police officers use every day to question common criminals.
New evidence that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew about and approved CIA waterboarding
An urgent call for renewing the programs that are essential for protecting America, Courting Disaster exposes the myths surrounding “enhanced interrogation techniques,” defends the brave intelligence officials who kept us safe, and shows how President Obama is inviting the next attack.
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