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Reports

9/11 Commission. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004.

Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. Washington, D.C., 2005.

Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD (the “Duelfer Report”), 2004.

Deputy Inspector General for Intelligence. Review of the Pre-Iraqi War Activities of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Washington, D.C.: Department of Defense, 2007.

Levin, Carl. Report of an Inquiry into the Alternative Analysis of the Issue of an Iraq-Al Qaeda Relationship. Washington, D.C.: Senate Armed Services Committee (minority staff), 2004.

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq. Washington, D.C.: 108th Congress, 2004.

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on Postwar Findings about Iraq’s WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How They Compare With Prewar Assessments. Washington, D.C.: 109th Congress, 2nd Session, 2006.

Books

Bamford, James. A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies. New York: Doubleday, 2004.

Barton, Rod. The Weapons Detective: The Inside Story of Australia’s Top Weapons Inspector. Melbourne, Australia: Black Inc. Agenda, 2006.

Blix, Hans. Disarming Iraq: The Former Director of the U.N. Inspection Commission Gives His Account of the Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Events Leading Up to America’s Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. New York: Pantheon, 2004.

Bolton, John. Surrender Is Not an Option. New York: Threshold Editions, 2007.

Bremer, Paul. My Year in Iraq: The Struggle To Build a Future of Hope. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Carroll, James. Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004.

Clarke, Richard A. Against all Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror. New York: Free Press, 2004.

Corn, David. The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003.

Draper, Robert. Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush. New York: Free Press, 2007.

Drogin, Bob. Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War. New York: Random House, 2007.

Drumheller, Tyler. On The Brink: An Insider’s Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006.

Fleisher, Ari. Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House. New York: William Morrow, 2005.

Franks, General Tommy. American Soldier. New York: ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 2005.

Fritz, Ben; Keefer, Bryan; and Nyhan, Brendan. All the President’s Spin: George W. Bush, the Media, and the Truth. New York: Touchstone, 2004.

Galbraith, Peter. The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Graham, Bob. Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America’s War on Terror. New York: Random House, 2004.

Gordon, Michael R., and Trainor, Bernard E. Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. New York: Pantheon, 2006.

Hersh, Seymour M. Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

Hughes, Karen. Ten Minutes From Normal. New York: Penguin Books, 2004.

Isikoff, Michael, and Corn, David. Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War. New York: Crown, 2006.

Kean, Thomas H., and Hamilton, Lee H. Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Kessler, Ronald. The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race To Stop the Next Attack. New York: Crown Forum, 2007.

Meyer, Christopher. D.C. Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain’s Ambassador to the U.S. at the Time of 9/11 and the Iraq War. London: Phoenix/Orion, 2006.

Packer, George. The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Pillar, Paul. Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2004.

Rich, Frank. The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina. New York: Penguin, 2006.

Ricks, Thomas E. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. New York: Penguin, 2006.

Risen, James. State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. New York: Free Press, 2006.

Ritter, Scott. Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy To Undermine the U.N. and Overthrow Saddam Hussein. New York: Nation Books, 2006.

Suskind, Ron. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Suskind, Ron. The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Tenet, George. At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA. New York: Harper Collins, 2007.

Unger, Craig. The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America’s Future. New York: Scribner, 2007.

Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. New York: Doubleday, 2007.

Whitney, Craig R. The WMD Mirage: Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War. New York: Public Affairs, 2005.

Woodward, Bob. Bush at War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.

Woodward, Bob. Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Woodward, Bob. State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Wright, Lawrence. The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.


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