Detailing the interagency turf war-from the CIA to the Department of Defense and the State Department-Scahill outlines the emergence of a special-operations monster, funded to the teeth and given a long leash to roam the globe with impunity. Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill chronicles how, over the course of the decade following 9/11, a network of lethal covert and clandestine operations evolved into institutionalized structures and activities authorized by the highest levels of government, yet operating at the margins of the law.Ī key element of this history is its re-envisioning of covert operations as a critical counterterrorism strategy in the post-9/11 era. Dirty Wars is an unprecedented behind-the-scenes history of the global “war on terror,” a narrative of the shadow wars conceived by George W.
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