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100 1 $aKessler, Ronald,$d1943-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83311829
245 14 $aThe bureau :$bthe secret history of the FBI /$cRonald Kessler.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c2002.
300 $aviii, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [467]-469) and index.
520 1 $a"With the FBI at the Epicenter of the war on terrorism, no institution is as critically important to America's security. No American institution is as controversial. And, after the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court, no institution is as powerful. Yet until now, no book has presented the full story of the FBI from its beginnings in 1908 to the present.".
520 8 $a"Kessler focuses on the agents who have made its cases and the directors who have run the bureau, from Hoover through Louis Freeh and Robert Mueller. In doing so, he probes the relationship between the FBI and American presidents, and the tension that exists between a free society and what amounts to a national police force.".
520 8 $a"Based on exclusive interviews - including the first interview with Mueller since his nomination - The Bureau reveals for the first time the dramatic inside story of the FBI's response to the attacks of September 11, including is investigation of the anthrax mailings. The book answers questions about the bureau's role and performance: Why did the FBI know nothing useful about al-Qaeda before the attacks?
520 8 $aWhat is really behind the FBI's more aggressive investigative approaches that have raised civil liberties concerns? What does the FBI think of improvements in airline security? How safe does the FBI think America really is?"--BOOK JACKET.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bFederal Bureau of Investigation.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095617
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