LEADER 02334oam 2200313z- 450 001 9910162684903321 005 20080621084301.0 010 $a1-933909-97-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000001044203 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001044203 100 $a20210505c2013uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aHomeland insecurity $ehow Washington politicians have made America less safe /$fTerry D. Turchie, Kathleen M. Puckett 210 $cHistory Publishing Company, LLC 327 $aAddicted to power : why politicians do what they do -- Richard M. Nixon : from Watergate to 9/11 -- Frank Church : paving the road to 9/11 -- Jamie Gorelick : FISA and the wall -- Don Edwards : of terrorists, spies, and libraries -- All Reagan's men : Iran contra -- Patrick Leahy and Charles Grassley : a hands-on approach to the FBI -- Investigating friends of politicians : the Archer Daniels Midland case -- Bill Clinton : too little, too late --- Al Gore : waltzing with Chinese intelligence -- Richard Shelby : leaking with impunity -- George W. Bush : groupthink -- Dick Cheney : absolute power --- Dennis Hastert and Nancy Pelosi : the House protects its own -- The friends of Jack Abramoff : the money fix --- Outsourcing the war on terror : the business of security --- The intelligence game : torture and other tactics -- Realities of intelligence : the FBI and the CIA -- Political independence and the rule of law : the real power behind our republic. 330 $aThe authors "sound the alarm in this book, to bring to light the critical damage that over three decades of the exercise of unfettered political power has had on the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation -- the FBI -- in ensuring transparency in government, the pre-eminence of the rule of law, and the guardianship of civil liberties. It all began with Watergate."--P. vii-viii. 606 $aDomestic terrorism$zUnited States 606 $aTerrorism$zUnited States$xPrevention 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th century 615 0$aDomestic terrorism 615 0$aTerrorism$xPrevention. 676 $a364.152/3092 676 $aB 700 $aTurchie$b Terry D$01239549 701 $aPuckett$b Kathleen M$01239550 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162684903321 996 $aHomeland insecurity$92876031 997 $aUNINA