I am a fan of Jim Marrs and liked Rule By Secrecy immensely. However, even though The War On Freedom: The 9/11 Conspiracies, has great detail, Jim Marrs confuses the issues by use of invective, guilt by association, and marking some good guys as bad guys and some bad guys as good guys. Maybe the "through the looking glass" nature of writing a book on this subject makes it almost impossible to get it straight.
For example, Jim Marrs wrongly labels J. Egar Hoover and Senator Joe McCarthy as leading a stampede of paranoia in the early 1950's. Jim is just plain wrong, and he has bought into the controlled media's character assassination of these two men. How do we know that Jim is flat wrong? The Venona Project cables released in 1995 proved that the people Senator McCarthy accused were in fact Soviet agents receiving directions from the Soviet Union. The Venona Project was an Army code breaker unit that had succesfully broken the Soviet codes. They decrypted thousands of cables and had the traitor's names. Only J. Edgar Hoover was let in on these findings since president Truman's cabinet and assistants were rife with real Soviet agents. The proof is indisputable. In "Treason" Ann Coulter details that Hoover confronted Truman at least a couple of times over these commies working for the president, and Truman threw him out of the office.
So Hoover was fighting against the CFR conspiracy and not as Jim Marr states. It is tragic that Senator McCarthy was a weak man and gave into alcoholism which destroyed him. He just wasn't up to fighting the CFR conspiracy which Jim Marr writes about. Is Jim Marrs wrongly blaming Senator McCarthy for the blacklists by the House Unamerican Activities Commission? Perhaps Jim Marr's extreme liberal colleagues at the University of Texas at Arlington would be proud of this book which tars good people, and promotes guilt by association without evidence. I'm still a fan Jim, but sorely disappointed in this book. I only gave you 3 stars because you DID include a lot of detail.
