See No Evil

The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

De: Robert Baer

Narrado por: Robert Baer

“See No Evil is a compelling account of America’s failed efforts to ‘listen in’ on the rest of the world, especially the parts of it that intend to do us harm.”—The Wall Street Journal

In his explosive New York Times bestseller, top CIA operative Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides startling evidence of how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA’s efforts to root out the world’s deadliest terrorists, allowing for the rise of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda and the continued entrenchment of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

A veteran case officer in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations in the Middle East, Baer witnessed the rise of terrorism first hand and the CIA’s inadequate response to it, leading to the attacks of September 11, 2001. This riveting book is both an indictment of an agency that lost its way and an unprecedented look at the roots of modern terrorism, and includes a new afterword in which Baer speaks out about the American war on terrorism and its profound implications throughout the Middle East.

“Robert Baer was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East.”–Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker ©2002 Robert Baer; (P)2002 Random House Inc., Random House Audio, a Division of Random House Inc.

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“See No Evil is a compelling account of America’s failed efforts to ‘listen in’ on the rest of the world, especially the parts of it that intend to do us harm.”
–Wall Street Journal

“Robert Baer was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field
officer in the Middle East.”
–Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker

A Must Read

Definitely puts it all together. Completes alot of unanswered questions of how the government handled or did not handle things. Why we are were we are today...

Front-line perspective on the War on Terror

Though the author had left the CIA prior to 9/11, the real war on terror has been going on for decades... only our enemies were fighting it while our leadership largely focused on other issues. Robert Baer was a front-line CIA case officer committed since the early 1980's to finding out more about radical Islam, the shadowy networks that formed and dissipated in its periodic headline-grabbing assaults against "the Great Satan," and which countries provided not-so-silent support for the attacks.

The audiobook is disappointingly short--I found myself yearning for the breadth and detail of The Company--but well worthwhile. Forget about the tired, ivory-tower academic treatments of Islam if what you want is a who's who of the cast of characters that are nostalgic for the 1300's and see us as the primary obstacle to imposing Allah's will on all humanity.

George Bush and Congress--Are You Listening?

This is an amazing inside look into the real workings of the CIA. Mr. Baer tells it like it is. He gives names, dates and details in describing the front line secret wars of an agency hamstrung by inept and out of touch bureaucrats in Washington. A crisis of confidence, internal betrayal, and post cold-war apathy has led to a tragic inability to effectively carry out the mission of the CIA. I am surprised that some of the revelations could be published--and as you read this book you will find yourself hoping that the critical lessons from the author's 25 years of experience are not missed by the US politicians, policy makers and bureaucrats charged with protecting the interests of Americans. As 9-11 demonstrated, the CIA or something like it is more relevant than ever, but the organization has been broken. Robert Baer presents chilling and convincing evidence that we must be willing to change our system and mentaliity or we will inevitably suffer more tragic conseqences that might otherwise be prevented.

in depth

gives in depth information on the dynamics, and how the intelligence comunity works. Surprised with many incidents,he mentioned, that were related to intelligence fabrication.

See No Evil

Previously, I read a few articles Mr Baue worte in the Atlantic Montly. He is an individual who still needs to be on duty!! We listend to his book and really hoped that it was fictin. Unfortunatley it is not. I found him to bring a very practical view from experience with a complete knowledge of real hard knocks. He put the whole terrrist issue into perpective.