See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism Paperback – 7 January 2003

Well written book!

good book

“See No Evil” was released in 2003, just 18 months after the terrorist bombings of the Twin Towers in New York City. At the time, it made a big impression, giving readers a rare look inside the secret wars of America’s intelligence services like the CIA, author Bob Baer's former employer. In the 15 years since, audiences have been exposed to shows like “24” the “Americans” and “Homeland” and reports like The 9/11 Commission Report findings as well as the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s findings on CIA torture techniques. We’ve all become terror experts it seems, and the spycraft that author Bob Baer describes doesn’t feel new and grand, anymore.What has aged well, though – sadly – are his observations of the geopolitical conflicts in the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Russian-bloc countries. Those areas remain mired in the same religious radicalism, sectarian violence, and tribal wars that he described nearly two decades earlier. His work also shows how far back – as early as 1983, and at the same time agencies began to shed operatives – that the US intelligence services were aware of the potential for large-scale domestic attacks by foreign enemies. It’s grim, sobering reading, and his career dovetails with the rise of that extremism – both at home (World Trade Center bombing in 1993, Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995) and abroad (Pan Am flight 103.)As a primer of the roots of our siege mentality in this country where we make travelers remove their shoes to board a domestic flight, this book is worth your time. Baer writes that our domestic security depends on a robust and apolitical national security apparatus with global reach through well-placed human operatives. That's still a timely message.

Alles ok.

Quite good reading. Discovered some interesting and usefu information and facts from an inside source...Even if obviously the text was carefully filtrated before going to the grand public.

A real revelation on the way America sees the world and the way the Middle East works. A must read.