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Author
Publisher
Twelve, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"SPYFAIL is about the highly dangerous and growing capability of foreign countries to conduct large-scale espionage within the United States and how the FBI and other agencies have failed to prevent it. These covert operations involve a variety of foreign countries--North Korea, Russia, Israel, China, and others--and include cyberattacks, espionage, psychological warfare, the infiltration of presidential campaigns, the smuggling of nuclear weapons...
3) See something say nothing: a Homeland Security officer exposes the government's submission to jihad
Author
Publisher
WND Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"As U.S. troops prepare to withdraw, the shocking tale of how the American military had triumph in sight in Afghanistan--and then brought the Taliban back from the dead. In the popular imagination, Afghanistan is often regarded as the site of intractable conflict, the American war against the Taliban a perpetually hopeless quagmire. But as Anand Gopal demonstrates in this stunning chronicle, top Taliban leaders were in fact ready to surrender within...
6) Invasion: how America still welcomes terrorists, criminals, and other foreign menaces to our shores
Author
Publisher
Regnery Pub
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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The former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security offers an insightful analysis of American security at home and a prescription for the future.
"Created in the wake of 9/11, the greatest tragedy to occur on US soil, the Department of Homeland Security was handed a sweeping mandate: make America safer. From 2009-2013, Janet Napolitano ran DHS and oversaw twenty-two federal agencies with 240,000 employees. An agency that's part terrorism...
18) An honorable man
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This gripping first novel in a spy thriller series, set in Washington D.C. at the height of the Red Scare, investigates a double agent in the CIA whose betrayals threaten to compromise the two lead investigators, the Agency, and the entire nation"--
Washington D.C., 1953. As the Cold War heats up, the CIA is reeling from a double agent within their midst. Someone is selling secrets to the Soviets, compromising missions around the globe. Undercover...
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
For many, the anti-Communist hysteria that began in the 1940s has been lost in the dustbin of history - an era remembered, if at all, by fading photograpbs of Joe McCarthy, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and J. Edgar Hoover. Red Scare is a remarkable document of an era that altered forever the American political landscape, a time when one's beliefs and associations could lead to financial ruin and a prison cell. Red Scare is a riveting portrayal of grim...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An esteemed journalist delivers a compelling on-the-ground account of the construction of President Trump's border wall in San Diego-and the impact on the lives of local residents. In August of 2019, Donald Trump finished building his border wall-at least a portion of it. In San Diego, the Army Corps of engineers completed two years of construction on a 14-mile steel beamed barrier that extends eighteen-feet high and cost a staggering $147 million....