Breakdown (book)

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Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
Author Bill Gertz
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]

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