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The Case for Impeachment
The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office
2007
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The war in Iraq . . .No bid contracts awarded to Halliburton . . .Hurricane Katrina . . .The CIA leak investigation . . .The story gets worse and worse. The evidence is glaring. George W. Bush's record as a president is abysmal.And it's time to impeach him.The Case for Impeachment lays out the reasons why in a straightforward, letter-of-the-law manner. Mixing the cold, hard facts with...
America's Disappeared
Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the War on Terror
2011
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The confirmation proceedings for Alberto R. Gonzales and Condeleeza Rice, like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, triggered a national debate about the U.S. government’s controversial treatment of detainees and its practice of torture. At the heart of the debate is the question: Is the United States undermining democracy, freedom, and human rights in it’s effort to protect its citizens from terrorism? The authors of AMERICA'S DISAPPEARED answer, yes.AMERICA'S DISAPPEARED describes how t...
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The Dark Side
The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
2009
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The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world—decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. In spellbinding detail, Jane Mayer relates the impact of these decisions by which key players, namely Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, exploited September 11 to further ...
How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)
The World According to Ann Coulter
2004
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Welcome to the world of Ann Coulter. With her monumental bestsellers Treason, Slander, and High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Coulter has become the most recognized and talked-about conservative intellectual in years—and certainly the most controversial. Now, in How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), which is sure to ignite impassioned debate, she offers her most comprehensive analysis of the American political scene to date. With incisive reasoning, refresh...
The Politics of Truth
Inside the Lies That Put the White House on Trial and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity
2007
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Through the last three presidential administrations and two wars with Iraq, no one has personally witnessed, influenced, or fueled news over more history-making events than Joseph Wilson. The last American diplomat to sit face-to-face with Saddam Hussein, he is a consummate insider who has the intelligence, principles, and independence to examine current American foreign policy and the inner workings of government and to form a candid assessment of the United States' involvement in the wor...
How America Was Lost
From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare State
2014
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Even as the view of America as a rogue state consolidates abroad, Americans appear largely bystanders at the spectacle of their government running amok. People forget the myriad instances of their government's flouting of the Constitution and international legal norms-- if ever they were aware of them in the first place--accepting to live in the increasingly pernicious "new normal" with little protest. This remarkable anthology of columns documents and reminds us of the extraordinary devel...
Angler
The Cheney Vice Presidency
2008
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**A New York Times bestseller • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Inspiration for the film Vice"Jaw-dropping . . . It reads like a thriller." —The New York TimesThe landmark exposé of the most powerful and secretive vice president in American history**Barton Gellman shared the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for a keen-edged reckoning with Dick Cheney's domestic agenda in The Washington Post. In Angler, Gellman...
While America Sleeps
A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era
2012
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Former senator Russ Feingold looks at institutional failures, both domestic and abroad, since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and proposes steps to be taken—by the government and by individuals—to ensure that the next ten years are focused on solving the international problems that threaten America.In While America Sleeps, Russ Feingold details our nation’s collective failure to respond properly to the challenges posed by the post-9/11 era. Oversimplification of complic...
Power Wars
The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy
2015
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state.Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's "global war on terror" but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention to military commissions and targeted killings. Then Obama found himself bequeathing those authorities to Donald Trump. How did the United States get...
Worse Than Watergate
The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
2004
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Nixon's White House counsel discusses the Bush-Cheney administration in this New York Timesbestseller: "Powerful . . . a riveting book." — Los Angeles Times Book ReviewFormer White House counsel John Dean, with the unique viewpoint and expertise born of working for Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal, here looks critically at the administration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, arguing that its worldview—and its tendency toward secrecy and...
Kill or Capture
The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency
2012
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"Divulge[s] the details of top-level deliberations—details that were almost certainly known only to the administration's inner circle" ( The Wall Street Journal).When he was elected in 2008, Barack Obama had vowed to close Guantánamo, put an end to coercive interrogation and military tribunals, and restore American principles of justice. Yet by the end of his first term he had backtracked on each of these promises, ramping up the secret war of drone strike...
Intelligence Matters
The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America's War on Terror
2004
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In this explosive, controversial, and profoundly alarming insider’s report, Senator Bob Graham reveals faults in America’s national security network severe enough to raise fundamental questions about the competence and honesty of public officials in the CIA, the FBI, and the White House.For ten years, Senator Graham served on the Senate Intelligence Committee, where he had access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded secrets. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Grah...











