Don't Let the Terrists Win

this was my beach reading last week (it was either this or Devil Wears Prada but that seemed too heavy), it's an incredibly detailed inside look a the reaction to 9/11 (and some of the lead-up) by the US gov and intelligence services, specifically the hijacking of foreign policy by Cheney and those in his camp. the One Percent Document is Cheney's theory that in a world populated by "terrists" if there's a 1% chance that a foreign country has an intent or capability to attack the US then we have to act as though it's a certainty. scary. all this stuff is obviously going to be reverberating for years and listening to that jackass clown of a president we have fumble and blowhard and flat-out lie his way through a press conf. like yesterday would be comical if it weren't depressing...

Suskind's site is here .