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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Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next AttackWhite House speechwriter Marc Thiessen was locked in a secure room and given access to the most sensitive intelligence when he was tasked to write President George W. Bush’s 2006 speech explaining the CIA’s interrogation program and why Congress should authorize it. Few know more about these CIA operations than Thiessen, and in his new book, Courting Disaster, he documents just how effective the CIA’s interrogations were in foiling attacks on America, penetrating al-Qaeda’s high command, and providing our military with actionable intelligence. Thiessen also shows how reckless President Obama has been in shutting down the CIA’s program and releasing secret documents that have aided our enemies. Courting Disaster proves:How the CIA program thwarted specific deadly attacks against the U.S.
Why enhanced interrogation” was not torture by any reasonable legal or moral standard
How the information gained by enhanced interrogation” could not have been acquired any other way
How President Obama’s actions since taking office have left America much more vulnerable to attack
In chilling detail, Thiessen reveals how close the terrorists came to striking again, how intelligence gained from enhanced interrogation” repeatedly stymied their plots, and how President Obama’s dismantling of this CIA program is inviting disaster for America.
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and InheritanceNine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams from My Father tells the story of Obama’s struggle to understand the forces that shaped him as the son of a black African father and white American mother—a struggle that takes him from the American heartland to the ancestral home of his great-aunt in the tiny African village of Alego. Obama opens his story in New York, where he hears that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has died in a car accident. The news triggers a chain of memories as Barack retraces his family’s unusual history: the migration of his mother’s family from small-town Kansas to the Hawaiian islands; the love that develops between his mother and a promising young Kenyan student, a love nurtured by youthful innocence and the integrationist spirit of the early sixties; his father’s departure from Hawaii when Barack was two, as the realities of race and power reassert themselves; and Barack’s own awakening to the fears and doubts that exist not just between the larger black and white worlds but within himself.
Propelled by a desire to understand both the forces that shaped him and his father’s legacy, Barack moves to Chicago to work as a community organizer. There, against the backdrop of tumultuous political and racial conflict, he works to turn back the mounting despair of the inner city. His story becomes one with those of the people he works with as he learns about the value of community, the necessity of healing old wounds, and the possibility of faith in the midst of adversity.
Barack’s journey comes full circle in Kenya, where he finally meets the African side of his family and confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life. Traveling through a country racked by brutal poverty and tribal conflict, but whose people are sustained by a spirit of endurance and hope, Barack discovers that he is inescapably bound to brothers and sisters living an ocean away—and that by embracing their common struggles he can finally reconcile his divided inheritance.
A searching meditation on the meaning of identity in America, Dreams from My Father might be the most revealing portrait we have of a major American leader—a man who is playing, and will play, an increasingly prominent role in healing a fractious and fragmented nation.
Pictured in lefthand photograph on cover: Habiba Akumu Hussein and Barack Obama, Sr. (President Obama's paternal grandmother and his father as a young boy). Pictured in righthand photograph on cover: Stanley Dunham and Ann Dunham (President Obama's maternal grandfather and his mother as a young girl).
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