Spies and Spooks: The (Mis)Adventures of the CIA

The All-Out War on Terrorism
First the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan shattered the territorial base of al-Qaeda and led to the detention of hundreds of likely collaborators of Osama bin Laden's — albeit not the terrorist lord himself or his deputy. The invasion of Iraq was then justified as an extension of the war on terrorism as U.S. intelligence agencies continued to press for information to prevent future 9/11s. The extraction of information, however, led to an explosive debate over CIA torture and coercion, a controversy that continues from the Bush Administration to the Obama White House.

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