Breakdown (book)
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Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11 | |
Author | Bill Gertz |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject(s) | United States Politics Terrorism |
Genre(s) | non-fiction |
Publisher | Plume |
Publication date | 27 May 2003 |
Pages | 320 |
ISBN | ISBN 0-452-28427-9 |
Breakdown (ISBN 0-452-28427-9) is a 2003 book by Bill Gertz arguing that U.S. intelligence services "lost sight of [their] purpose and function" due to Clinton administration policies that were more concerned with political correctness than with national defense.
Publishers Weekly gave it a mixed review, calling it "an unbalanced but revealing expose on the mistakes, misdirections and blunders behind "the most damaging intelligence failure since Pearl Harbor." [1]