Fear Less or Shadow Warriors

Fear Less: Real Truth About Risk, Safety, and Security in a Time of Terrorism

Author: Gavin de Becker

Gavin de Becker's landmark book The Gift Of Fear showed millions of readers how to better protect themselves from violence and unwarranted fear. Now, in Fear Less, de Becker answers the questions many Americans have been asking since September 11th:

• Can air travel be safe?
• What is the risk of biological or chemical attack?
• Can the government detect and prevent future acts?
• How can we best talk to our children about what has happened and what might happen?
• What can we do to reduce fear and worry?
• What specific steps can we take to reduce terrorism?
• What are terrorists likely to do next?
• Most simply, is everything going to be all right?

De Becker says, "Just as your imagination has placed you in frightening situations, it is now time to place yourself in empowering situations, time to see that you have a role to play, and contrary to so many TV news stories, it isnit just victim-in-waiting."

Fear Less offers specific recommendations that can enhance our national security and our individual safety р and help put fear into perspective. Nobody in the world understands risk and safety better than Gavin de Becker. At a time of uncertainty, terrorism, and a whole new set of rules, it is hard to imagine a more important, more reassuring, and more necessary book than Fear Less.

Author Biography: Gavin de Becker is widely considered America's leading expert on predicting and managing violent behavior. He advises such clients as the C.I.A. and the United States Supreme Court, and his 70-member firm has protected clients from terrorism in Israel, Southern Africa, Europe, and South America. Thisthree-time presidential appointee designed the assessment systems used to screen threats to all federal judges and the governors of eleven states, and his work has changed the way the U. S. government protects its highest officials. Mr. de Becker is a Senior Fellow at UCLA is School of Public Policy and Social Research.

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Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender

Author: Kenneth R Timmerman

“An alarming but necessary book that reads like a thriller. By raising uncomfortable questions, Ken Timmerman has performed a significant public service.”
–Michael Medved, nationally syndicated talk radio host

Some have called it the CIA’s greatest covert operation of all time.

It is an intelligence war conducted behind the scenes, aimed at confusing, misleading, and ultimately defeating the enemy. The goal is nothing less than toppling the regime in power. A network of agents has been planted at key crossroads of power, stealing secrets, planting disinformation, and cooking intelligence. The plan involves sophisticated political sabotage operations that bring in opposition forces who can challenge the regime openly, in a way the CIA cannot. The scope is breathtaking.

Who is the target of this vast, sophisticated CIA operation? Not the mullahs in Tehran or North Korea’s power-mad Kim Jong Il; the target is America’s president, George W. Bush.

Drawing on exclusive information from senior government officials, intelligence operatives, and many others, investigative reporter Kenneth Timmerman provides the full, untold story of the sabotage that occurs behind the scenes at key government agencies like the CIA and State Department–and the profound effect it has on America’s ability to confront its most dangerous enemies. In Shadow Warriors, Timmerman brings to light the vast underground working to undercut our nation’s efforts to win the war on terror–revealing the when, where, how, and who for the first time. He also exposes the Democratic politicians who have sold outAmerica’s national security for political gain.

In Shadow Warriors you’ll learn:

•How the CIA and State Department sabotaged the administration’s Iraq war plans from the start–sparking the insurgency in the process
•How a high-level State Department official gathered aides after Bush’s reelection to insist they owed no allegiance to the president or his policies
•How pre-war intelligence on Iraq was cooked–not by the Bush administration, but by its opponents
•How and why the shadow warriors have leaked details of virtually every covert U.S. intelligence tool used in the war on terror
•How the leaks have devastated our efforts to fight terrorism–such as when a key U.S. ally rebuffed the CIA director’s request for assistance by saying, “You Americans can’t keep secrets”
•Why U.S. intelligence refused to examine important documents detailing the secret Iraqi networks that became the heart of the insurgency
•How newly discovered Iraqi government documents reveal the extent of Saddam Hussein’s ties to international terrorists and the truth about his WMD arsenal

Shadow Warriors shows that George W. Bush never got the first rule of Washington: People are policy. He allowed his political enemies to run roughshod over his administration. This insider’s look at secret White House meetings, political backstabbing, and war-room summits is an eye-opening account of the mind-set that is crippling our effectiveness in Iraq and around the world.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: The Underground     1
A Battle Royal     9
The Spooks' War     27
Secret Office in the Basement     35
Preparing for War     45
The Niger Coper     53
Liberation Woes     69
The Viceroy Cometh     84
Joe Wilson Lies     99
Politicizing Intelligence     118
Air CIA     137
The "Cabal"     143
CIA Insurgency     160
"Rogue Weasels"     169
October Surprise     189
People Are Policy     202
The Daily Leak     233
The Missing WMDs     258
Sinking the Ship     277
The Empire Strikes Back     285
Lame Duck Nation     302
Documents     323
Notes     369
Acknowledgments     389
Index     393