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	• The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are ... Bill Gertz Crown Forum, 2008 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Disturbing, yet highly informative

This book makes me sick to my stomach and extremely fearful for our national security. Slimeballs from each party have infiltrated our security and military administration and are working to defeat our country from the inside. It's a hard subject to stomach but more people need to know about what's going on.

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This book is probably the first of many to come. The book repeats the Hillary claim in reverse. That claim is that a secret conspiracy is the reason for inefficiencies or incompetence. However in the case of this book the finger points the other way. The book goes to great extent showing how Bush's failures weren't his fault, it was the great liberal conspiracy hiding in the civil service did him in. No attention is given to the bad decisions that have come out of the White House. However the author does mention names. He should get credit for backing up his accusations. However he goes overboard. His words are very laced with partisan rhetoric. I am sure there will be other books coming out from Administration folks saying much the same thing Gertz is saying, it is the other guy's fault we shot ourselves in the leg.

The book isn't a total failure. The book is like a collection of his famous columns in the Washington Times. He does draw attention to a few issues that need that attention. They seem to have slipped through the cracks in the media attention. Gertz broke the stories in the 90s about the Chinese influence in the country. He continues that chant in the book. He has a story all should read in the book. Gertz tells the story about Air Force General Butler of Strategic Command who went on a one man war to disarm the US military of nuclear weapons from the inside. More should be told of that disaster. Gertz also shows in very clear detail about how our political correctness is handcuffing the nation and sticking a bag over their head. It really does blind us to what the true harm is out there.

Overall it is a good easy read but lacks real meat about some of the underlying structural problems in our country.

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The U.S. government is in crisis.

With America?s attention fixated on who will step into the Oval Office in 2009, no one has noticed where the real power has shifted?to a vast network of unelected officials whose authority has grown wildly out of control. In his latest blockbuster book, acclaimed defense and national security reporter Bill Gertz exposes these astonishingly powerful leaders and their enablers in the political class?and their devastating impact on America's national security.

Gertz shows how entrenched liberal activists have become dominant even under an ostensibly conservative administration. And he names names of those who actively subvert official U.S. policy?including not only liberal Democrats but also a number of so-called Republicans who have joined this insidious ?Blame America First? crowd.

The Failure Factory reveals:

? The shocking, previously untold story of the partisan bureaucrats who completely undercut the U.S. position on Iran?s radical Islamist regime
? Barack Obama?s disastrous national security policies?and his stable of advisers who have already put America at risk
? The recent showdown in the Pentagon that laid bare the U.S. government?s ongoing failures to tackle the threat of Islamist extremism
? Flagrant cases of sabotage by top State Department officials that have emboldened dangerous states like Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Communist China
? Stunning new intelligence failures?including one that may have allowed a terrorist group to penetrate the FBI and CIA
? How even the Bush White House was overrun with Democrats and liberal Republicans
? The legions of ?Clinton generals??top military brass whose careers blossomed during the Clinton administration?who make the United States more vulnerable
? How Democrats are exploiting the antiwar movement for political gain, with little regard for the potentially devastating consequences
? How the defense secretary?s public defiance of official U.S. policy could have gotten him fired?but instead went unchallenged

Based on scores of exclusive interviews and displaying the groundbreaking reporting that has made Bill Gertz?s previous books smash bestsellers, The Failure Factory offers a chilling look at the threats to our national security that exist within our own government.

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