See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

In his explosive New York Times bestseller, top CIA operative Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides startling evidence of how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA?s efforts to root out the world?s deadliest terrorists, allowing for the rise of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda and the continued entrenchment of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

A veteran case officer in the CIA?s Directorate of Operations in the Middle East, Baer witnessed the rise of terrorism first hand and the CIA?s inadequate response to it, leading to the attacks of September 11, 2001. This riveting book is both an indictment of an agency that lost its way and an unprecedented look at the roots of modern terrorism, and includes a new afterword in which Baer speaks out about the American war on terrorism and its profound implications throughout the Middle East.

?Robert Baer was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field
officer in the Middle East.?
?Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker

From The Preface
This book is a memoir of one foot soldier?s career in the other cold war, the one against terrorist networks. It?s a story about places most Americans will never travel to, about people many Americans would prefer to think we don?t need to do business with.

This memoir, I hope, will show the reader how spying is supposed to work, where the CIA lost its way, and how we can bring it back again. But I hope this book will accomplish one more purpose as well: I hope it will show why I am angry about what happened to the CIA. And I want to show why every American and everyone who cares about the preservation of this country should be angry and alarmed, too.

The CIA was systematically destroyed by political correctness, by petty Beltway wars, by careerism, and much more. At a time when terrorist threats were compounding globally, the agency that should have been monitoring them was being scrubbed clean instead. Americans were making too much money to bother. Life was good. The White House and the National Security Council became cathedrals of commerce where the interests of big business outweighed the interests of protecting American citizens at home and abroad. Defanged and dispirited, the CIA went along for the ride. And then on September 11, 2001, the reckoning for such vast carelessness was presented for all the world to see.
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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-07-2009; Telling account of the Middle East; Baer is a skilled historian, having actually been a part of the recent history of the CIA. His account of the American politics with the Middle East is enlightening to say the least. Politics and intelligence is all too often politicized...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-02-2009; let down; I'm surprised at the large number of favorable reviews. I was very excited to read this book from the description but ended up disappointed. It started out great - describing what it was like to join the CIA and the training etc. Then it...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-26-2009; See No Evil; See No Evil is a fascinating true view of 20 years of life in the CIA....including the frustration of how "political correctness" has changed the role of the CIA and how America is so vulnerable today. A really eye-opening and thought...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-31-2009; An excellent book detailing the CIA's Past and Possible Future; See No Evil is by most accounts an excellent read. For anyone interested in the real world of intelligence and espionage it tells a riveting tale complete with close calls and the dangers of intelligence collection without glamorizing it...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-07-2009; Telling account of the Middle East; Baer is a skilled historian, having actually been a part of the recent history of the CIA. His account of the American politics with the Middle East is enlightening to say the least. Politics and intelligence is all too often politicized...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-29-2008; Interesting, informative; poorly written, poorly edited; A rambling CIA agent's tale of working in the Middle East pre Bush Administration. Baer recently appeared on television after the 2008 car bomb death of Imad Mugniyah in Syria and clearly knows about which he speaks because, in this...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-02-2009; let down; I'm surprised at the large number of favorable reviews. I was very excited to read this book from the description but ended up disappointed. It started out great - describing what it was like to join the CIA and the training etc. Then it...; read full review | report as inappropriate