The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror

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The Shocking Reexamination of Unexplored Failures by Government Officials to Use Available Intelligence to Stop the Events of September 11th

In 2009, documentarians John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski arrived at the offices of Richard Clarke, the former counterterror adviser to Presidents Clinton and Bush. In the meeting, Clarke boldl

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The authors lay bare an intelligence failure of historic proportions.
JOHN KIRIAKOU, Former CIA Officer and author of The Convenient Terrorist

Stories of characters in the dark corners of the bureaucracies, where the secrets are kept Duffy and Nowosielski name names and hold people to account. If only our government had the courage to do the same.
ALEX GIBNEY, Co-creator, Hulus The Looming Tower

A devastating portrait of an agency that is almost singularly committed to its own impunity Has any government agency, anywhere, been as successful as the modern CIA in avoiding accountability for its grotesque failures and abuses, including grave violations of human rights
BEN WIZNER, Legal adviser to Edward Snowden, ACLU

Compelling, informative, and authoritative.
MARK ROSSINI, Former FBI Agent

A detailed, comprehensive indictment for prosecution of these unpunished masters of elaborate deception, wielding secrecy as the main weapon.
JOHN YOUNG, Co-creator, Cryptome.org

Snapshot of the much larger blueprint of malfeasance that ran rampant across the US government Having been personally affected and engaged on these issues for the past seventeen years, even we learned new pieces of disturbing and damning information A must read.
PATTY CASAZZA, MONICA GABRIELLE, MINDY KLEINBERG, LORIE VAN AUKEN, The Jersey Widows

Author Bio

Ray Nowosielski is a documentary filmmaker and journalist who has written for Salon and Truthout and contributed to investigations by Newsweek, The Daily Beast, and The Intercept. He has directed several documentaries, including 2006s critically acclaimed Press For Truth, and has produced for HBO, Amazon, Discovery Impact, and Morgan Spurlock. He lives in New York City.

John Duffy is a writer and activist. He produced the documentary Press for Truth as well as the investigative podcast Who Is Rich Blee He has worked extensively in the environmental movement to fight tar sand extraction, fracking, and logging on public lands. His anonymous essays critiquing the contradictions of big systems and their fallout on ecology and society appear regularly in a variety of media. He currently lives in a quiet cabin in the Midwest with his family.