Breakdown (book)

Breakdown (book)

Infobox Book
name = Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
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author = Bill Gertz
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country = United States
language = English
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subject = United States Politics
Terrorism
genre = non-fiction
publisher = Plume
release_date = 27 May 2003
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pages = 320
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isbn = ISBN 0-452-28427-9
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"Breakdown" (ISBN 0-452-28427-9) is a 2003 book by Bill Gertz arguing that U.S. intelligence services "lost sight of [their] purpose and function" due to Clinton administration policies that were more concerned with political correctness than with national defense.

"Publishers Weekly" gave it a mixed review, calling it "an unbalanced but revealing expose on the mistakes, misdirections and blunders behind "the most damaging intelligence failure since Pearl Harbor." [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0452284279]

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