- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
All Points Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
[2017]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- 279 pages ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-279).
- ISBN
- 9781250167866
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1. Who Is Behind the Intelligence Coup?
- How the Coup Is Unfolding
- Leader of the Coup?
- The Battering Ram?
- The Unknown Leakers Are the Real Culprits in the Coup
- Is Christopher Steele a Rogue Spook?
- Another Friend Who Helped Out: Meet Sir Andrew Wood
- Help prom Foreign Spooks
- 2. Getting the Dossier Out ... with a Little Help from John McCain
- Getting the Dossier Out
- Intrigue at the Halifax Conference
- Enter John McCain
- McCain Learns About the Dossier
- Undercover Operations to Get the Dossier Out
- The Dossier Comes Out
- 3. The Dossier
- What's in the Dossier?
- The Myth of Michael Cohen, Consiglieri, Secret Agent in Prague
- The Hackers Who Couldn't Hack It
- The Alleged Perverse Sex Acts in Moscow
- The Dossier Actually Backs Off Its Own Claims About Carter Page
- The Dossier's Iffy Sources
- Contradictions Within the Dossier
- Misspellings in the Dossier
- 4. What Were the Brits Up To?
- The Trump-Putin Issue Lifts Hillary
- The British Use Russian Meddling to Get Obama to Be Tough on Putin
- 5. How the Intelligence Community Went from Red to Blue
- The Intelligence Community Sentences Trump to Death by a Thousand Leaks
- Bush-43: New Life to Intelligence
- Intel Overreaches
- The Left Takes Over Intel
- Brennan Makes the CIA Blue
- Holder Drives the Intel Community to the Left
- The Leaking Begins
- 6. In Like Flynn ... Out Like Flynn
- 7. And the Leaks Kept Coming ...
- All Hell Breaks Loose: Trump Fires Comey Obama: The Catalyst
- 8. The Media Invents a Scandal: Russian Intervention in the U.S. Election
- U.S.-Russia Relationship Deteriorates
- The Putin-Trump Bromance
- 9. It Wasn't the First Time
- China's Efforts to Meddle in the 1996 U.S. Election
- Clinton Meddles in 1996 Russian Election; Tries to Re-elect Boris Yeltsin
- 10. How the Intel Community Came to Pose a Threat to Democracy
- The Birth of the CIA
- The CIA Moves into Covert Action
- The CIA Turns Its Malicious Skills on Americans
- Meanwhile, the FBI Increases Its Domestic Surveillance
- Watergate: How the FBI Destroyed the CIA
- Congress Strikes Down the CIA
- CIA: Picking Up the Pieces
- The "Rogue Elephant" Gets a Trainer: Bob Casey Takes Over the CIA
- The Bonfire of Intelligence: Near-Death Experiences at the CIA and FBI
- The CIA, Too, Withers and Almost Dies
- Ignored by Clinton
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes