Compromised Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump

Peter Strzok

eBook - 2020

The "compelling" New York Times bestseller by the FBI counterintelligence agent who opened the investigation into Russian election meddling (The Washington Post).From "the FBI agent who started it all" (David Martin, CBS Sunday Morning), this is an epic, behind-the-scenes account of the biggest counterintelligence story of our time: Russia's war on American democracy, and the effort to hold Putin's collaborators to account.When he opened the FBI investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, Peter Strzok had spent over two decades defending the United States against foreign threats. His long career in counterintelligence ended shortly thereafter when he was forced out of the Bureau for p...rivately voicing his political opinions about Donald Trump. But by that time, Strzok had seen more than enough to believe that the country's new commander in chief had fallen under the sway of America's adversary in the Kremlin.... more