Spies and Spooks: The (Mis)Adventures of the CIA
Christopher Morris / VII
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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