the great war of our time by michael morell

When you call your grandma in Arkansas, the NSA knows. In those early days, if you were watching CNN, they were saying the NSA is listening to your phone calls. of the world, those people who have a 24/7 news cycle. The media went to the darkest corner of the room, the CNNs and the FOXes etc. It wasn’t only the Snowden disclosures about 215 that created that, it was the media’s handling of it. Two-and much more damaging: The Snowden disclosures created this perception that people’s privacy was being put at significant risk. And the people who say otherwise are just trying to defend Edward Snowden. And when they learned that from the Snowden disclosures, they were able to adapt to it and essentially go silent … And so, part of their rise was understanding what our capabilities were, adjusting to them so we couldn’t see them. Michael Morell: First, ISIS went to school on how we were collecting intelligence on terrorist organizations by using telecommunications technologies.

Along the way Morell provides intimate portraits of the leadership styles of figures ranging from Presidents Bush and Obama, CIA directors Tenet, Goss, Hayden, Petraeus, Panetta, and Brennan, and a host of others.Michael Hirsh: How did the Snowden revelations help the Islamic State, and did they somehow lead to the Paris attacks? He writes of secret, back-channel negotiations he conducted with foreign spymasters and regime leaders in a desperate attempt to secure a peaceful outcome to unrest launched during the 'Arab Spring.' Morell describes how efforts to throw off the shackles of oppression have too often resulted in broken nation states unable or unwilling to join the fight against terrorism. Morell illuminates new, growing threats from terrorist groups that, if unaddressed, could leave the country vulnerable to attacks that would dwarf 9/11 in magnitude.

A superb intelligence analyst and briefer, Morell now presents THE GREAT WAR OF OUR TIME, where he uses his talents to offer an unblinking and insightful assessment of CIA's counterterrorism successes and failures of the past twenty years and, perhaps most important, shows readers that the threat of terrorism did not die with Bin Ladin in Abbottabad. From the subway bombings in London to the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Morell always seemed to find himself on the cusp of history. Morell was by President Bush's side on 9/11/01 when terrorists struck America and in the White House Situation Room advising President Obama on 5/1/11 when America struck back-killing Usama bin Ladin. Called the 'Bob Gates of his generation' by Politico, Michael Morell was a top CIA officer who played a critical role in the most important counterterrorism events of the past two decades.

The great war of our time by michael morell