This is a well written book that chronicles the policies and practices of the Clinton administration as they methodically downsized the military of the United States as well as their demoralizing and basically ignoring the intelligence community. A series of events that though the executive branch was aware of chose to ignore and focus on economic globalization at the expense of national security.

I was amazed to find out that President Clinton did not have face-to-face briefings daily with the CIA and ignored and set back any reports that had intelligence pertaining to terrorism. And how present now prominent terror organizations came into being because of these policies. The Sudan government was a great friend to the USA when Clinton took office and they offered to extradite Osama bin Laden to the USA but the President refused this offer.

The policies followed and the tone set by the White House during this time under minded the national security in favor of political correctness and appear to have a focus on pleasing China. The book also shows how before the Patriot Act existed the FBI and CIA did not share important information that could have stopped various attacks. Though the President could have facilitated this by showing an interest in national security. ( )