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The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America's Security and Leading Us to War | 
 enlarge | Author: Bill Gertz
Publisher: Crown Forum
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 49795
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 5.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 030733807X
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931
EAN: 9780307338075
ASIN: 030733807X
Publication Date: September 30, 2008
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Product Description
The U.S. government is in crisis.
With America’s attention fixated on who will step into the Oval Office in 2009, no one has noticed where the real power has shifted—to a vast network of unelected officials whose authority has grown wildly out of control. In his latest blockbuster book, acclaimed defense and national security reporter Bill Gertz exposes these astonishingly powerful leaders and their enablers in the political class—and their devastating impact on America's national security.
Gertz shows how entrenched liberal activists have become dominant even under an ostensibly conservative administration. And he names names of those who actively subvert official U.S. policy—including not only liberal Democrats but also a number of so-called Republicans who have joined this insidious “Blame America First” crowd.
The Failure Factory reveals:
• The shocking, previously untold story of the partisan bureaucrats who completely undercut the U.S. position on Iran’s radical Islamist regime
• Barack Obama’s disastrous national security policies—and his stable of advisers who have already put America at risk
• The recent showdown in the Pentagon that laid bare the U.S. government’s ongoing failures to tackle the threat of Islamist extremism
• Flagrant cases of sabotage by top State Department officials that have emboldened dangerous states like Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Communist China
• Stunning new intelligence failures—including one that may have allowed a terrorist group to penetrate the FBI and CIA
• How even the Bush White House was overrun with Democrats and liberal Republicans
• The legions of “Clinton generals”—top military brass whose careers blossomed during the Clinton administration—who make the United States more vulnerable
• How Democrats are exploiting the antiwar movement for political gain, with little regard for the potentially devastating consequences
• How the defense secretary’s public defiance of official U.S. policy could have gotten him fired—but instead went unchallenged
Based on scores of exclusive interviews and displaying the groundbreaking reporting that has made Bill Gertz’s previous books smash bestsellers, The Failure Factory offers a chilling look at the threats to our national security that exist within our own government.
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 We need more truth tellers like Bill Gertz January 2, 2009
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, Bill Gertz is not the household name he deserves to be. In the media it seems, only the propensity to lie and hew to a left-wing line brings widespread fame and fortune. Think Dan Rather, for example.
Instead, a conservative interested in the truth like Bill Gertz has to be content with a much smaller measure of fame - but he is entitled to a full measure of our respect for telling the truths the left-wing media won't allow on their pages or on their airwaves.
Here Gertz tells the story - which any intelligent American concerned with destiny of their nation can sense and see - of unelected bureaucrats who have for all intents and purposes become the government themselves.
For those who didn't pick up the bits and pieces as the stories emerged, Gertz lays them out in detail here.
For example, the absolute travesty of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that irreparably damaged the United States in its efforts to force Iran to end its nuclear weaponry program. The NIE was under the control of Thomas Fingar, a left-wing intelligence analyst at the State Department. Gertz's examination of this tragedy - and that is not too strong a term for it - is very complete and should make your blood boil if you are a real American.
That we had a President and Secretary of State who would permit this to happen and go both uncorrected and unpunished is deplorable.
Worse, President Bush allowed his Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, to publicly contradict him on a policy issue. While the incident demonstrated the weakness of Bush, it also demonstrated the power of the careerists in our national government.
Name the major issue facing the United States and Gertz can - and does - tell you how left-wingers in the national government, with their own agenda, are making their own policies without regard for genuine national interests.
This is not a cheerful book. It is, in a way, reminiscent of Winston Churchill's attempts to rouse a sleeping England, Europe and United States from their slumber in the 1930s and to confront the dangers facing them.
Published before the recent election, Gertz includes a penetrating analysis of the Democrat Presidential contenders, one of whom obviously won the election.
"Reforming the federal government bureaucracy must be the highest priority of the President of the United States, Gertz opines. The problem is that our next President will not be taking Gertz's advice. Instead he will be listening tothe very people Gertz identifies in this chilling book.
Dark days are ahead for the United States.
Jerry
The Failure Factory December 16, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Not fun to read, but very enlightning. Everyone who cares about where we are and how we got there concerning our security, should read this.
 Failure Factory December 14, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Failure Factory is a book filled with what I would consider factual information. But then there are the interpretations of those facts. In the area of maintaining America's dominance, the author seems to believe that only hard-line approaches can work. The author dismisses other approaches as deliberate undermining of America's power. I am not sure I agree with that. For me to be more comfortable with many of Mr. Gertz's conclusions, I would first like to see some professional reviews coming from all sides of the political spectrum. So far, I have been unable to find any.
the failure factory December 14, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
this is an outstanding book that should be a must read by all americans, regardless of political posture. Bill Gertz is probably the only political investigative journalist alive today, and he should be read and appreciated for the information he presents to the public.
Read It & Weep December 5, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This should be required reading for all you who voted for Obama. It will help you prepare for what's ahead.
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