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

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The “revealing” (The New Yorker) insider history of the CIA from a lawyer with a “front-row seat at the hidden world of intelligence” (The Washington Post). Former CIA director George J. Tenet known as Company Man a “will have to read.”

Over the course of a thirty-four-year (1976-2009) career, John Rizzo served under eleven CIA directors and seven presidents, in the end becoming a controversial public figure and a symbol and victim of the toxic winds swirling in post-9/11 Washington. In Company Man, Rizzo charts the CIA’s evolution from shadowy entity to an organization exposed to new laws, rules, and a seemingly never-ending string of public controversies. As the agency’s top lawyer in the years after the 9/11 attacks, Rizzo oversaw actions that remain the subject of intense debate, including the rules governing waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

Rizzo writes about virtually each and every significant CIA activity and controversy over a tumultuous, thirty-year period. His experiences remove darkness from our nation’s spy bureaucracy, offering a unique primer on find out how to live on, and flourish, in a high-powered job amid decades of shifting political winds. He also provides the most comprehensive account of critical events, like the “torture tape” fiasco surrounding the interrogation of Al Qaeda suspect Abu Zubayadah, and the birth, growth, and death of the enhanced interrogation program. Company Man is the most authoritative insider account of the CIA ever written—a groundbreaking, timely, and remarkably candid history of American intelligence. That is “emphatically a book for any individual who cares about the security of this country” (The Wall Street Journal).

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