![]() ![]() In the summer of 2001, Morell found himself in the Oval Office telling the president that the “system was blinking red” with signals that a major terrorist strike was imminent. Morell’s career exposed him to a diverse array of agency activities, especially the year he spent as the principal CIA briefer for President George W. His memoir, The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism-From al Qa'ida to ISIS, offers a tour of agency successes and failures and also explores a number of other highly controversial matters, including the “enhanced interrogation” of terrorists, and the agency’s convoluted role in the 2012 Benghazi imbroglio. Not long ago, Michael Morell hung up his trench coat after a 31-year career in the agency that took him from an entry level position to an array of high-level postings, ending up as CIA deputy director under Barack Obama. Second, it issued a faulty estimate that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction, which led to a major war. First, it failed to detect the September 11 plot. Two of the spy agency’s mistakes had terrible consequences for the future of the country. When the history of United States in the 21st century is written, the role of the Central Intelligence Agency will loom large in its early chapters. The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism-From al Qa'ida to ISIS ![]()
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