Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA

Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA

From the â€œmost influential career lawyer in CIA historyâ€ (Los Angeles Times) an unprecedented memoir filled with never-before-told stories from his thirty-year career at the center of the U.S. governmentâ€™s intelligence program (1976-2009).

In 1975, fresh out of law school and working a numbing job at the Treasury Department, John Rizzo took â€œa total shot in the darkâ€ and sent his rÃ©sumÃ© to the Central Intelligence Agency. He had no notion that more than thirty years later, after serving under eleven CIA directors and seven presidents, he would become a notorious public figureâ€”a symbol and a victim of the toxic winds swirling in post-9/11 Washington. From serving as the point person answering for the Iran-contra scandal to approving the rules that govern waterboarding and other â€œenhanced interrogation techniques,â€ John Rizzo witnessed and participated in virtually all of the significant operations of the CIAâ€™s modern history.

In Company Man, Rizzo charts the CIAâ€™s evolution from shadowy entity to an organization exposed to new laws, rules, and a seemingly neverending string of public controversies. Rizzo offers a direct window into the CIA in the years after the 9/11 attacks, when he served as the agencyâ€™s top lawyer, with oversight of actions that remain the subject of intense debate today. In Company Man, Rizzo is the first CIA official to ever describe what â€œblack sitesâ€ look like from the inside and he provides the most comprehensive account ever written of the â€œtorture tapeâ€ fiasco surrounding the interrogation of Al Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah and the birth, growth, and death of the enhanced interrogation program.

Spanning more than three decades, Company Man is the most authoritative insider account of the CIA ever writtenâ€”a groundbreaking, timely, and remarkably candid history of American intelligence.
Country USA
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-01-07
EANs 9781451673937

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2014-01-07
EANs	9781451673937

Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA

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