“On August 1, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel granted the CIA’s request to begin water-boarding Abu Zubaydah. The technique, tantamount to torture, was designed to elicit confessions through the threat of imminent death by drowning. That same day… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law.” — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“The president and the vice president wanted the FBI to execute searches in secret, avoiding the strictures of the legal and constitutional standards set… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“On December 4, 1998, the headline on the President’s Daily Brief, the most secret intelligence document in the government of the United States, read:… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to understand another. (480)” — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“Where were the weapons of mass destruction? he asked. Did they exist at all? They did not, Saddam said. It had been a long-running… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“The other day we hauled in a guy named Abu Zubaydah,” President Bush said at a Republican fund-raiser in Greenwich, Connecticut, on April 9.… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“The attorney general also spelled out some of the authorities the FBI would use under the Patriot Act, which passed the Senate that same… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“Mueller was embroiled in another ferocious argument over the rule of law and the role of the FBI as the interrogation fight festered. Vice… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“In mid-September Soufan talked to an al-Qaeda prisoner named Ramzi Binalshibh, who was chained naked to the floor in a CIA black prison at… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“On June 20, 1951, less than four weeks after the Homer case broke, Hoover escalated the FBI’s Sex Deviates Program. The FBI alerted universities… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“Then, on December 14, 1999, an alert United States Customs agent in Port Angeles, Washington, stopped a nervous twenty-three-year-old Algerian named Ahmed Ressam who… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“On July 6, he gave a speech to newspaper and television executives at the great columned building housing the National Archives and the original… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
