Enemies

Tim Weiner ist Journalist bei der New York Times und gilt als einer der intimsten Kenner des amerikanischen Geheimdienstsystems. Für seine Reportagen und seine Berichterstattung über das geheime National Security Program , das die CIA gemeinsam mit dem Pentagon heimlich ins Leben gerufen hatte, erhielt er zwei Pulitzer-Preise. Er berichtete als Korrespondent u.a. aus Afghanistan, Pakistan, dem Sudan und weiteren fünfzehn Staaten, in denen er auch CIA-Operationen recherchierte.

Truly impressive ... [Enemies] could have been put together only by a journalist of Weiner's stature -- Keith Lowe Sunday Telegraph A history that moves at the pace of a James Ellroy novel. But Weiner's truth is wilder even than Ellroy's fiction. Weiner sets the record straight on the FBI's first 100 years using only the Bureau's documents and oral testimony, most of which has never been seen -- David Blackburn Spectator An outstanding piece of work, even-handed, exhaustively researched, smoothly written and thematically timely ... This is certainly the most complete book we are likely to see about the F.B.I.'s intelligence-gathering operations, from Emma Goldman to Osama bin Laden -- Bryan Burrough New York Times Extensively researched, admirably understated, yet terrifically entertaining Boston Globe Important and disturbing ... Weiner lays bare a record of embarrassing, even stunning failure, in which the bureau's lawlessness was matched only by its incompetence ... [he] has done prodigious research, yet tells this depressing story with all the verve and coherence of a good spy thriller New York Times Book Review A fascinating account of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's counterespionage snooping over the past century ... A very good read Wall Street Journal An authoritative and often frightening history of what has been, in effect, America's secret police ... A sober, monumental and unflinchingly critical account of a problematic institution Kirkus Reviews An important, judicious account of the tension between national security and civil liberties Publishers Weekly Fascinating ... an important and biting inquiry into an agency that protects Americans in a dangerous world while straining against the limitations we rightly impose upon it San Francisco Chronicle [A] masterpiece ... reads like a thriller, but don't let the heart-pumping prose fool you ... a scholarly tour de force that will be an instant classic for any serious student of American national