Farmer's book is a critical review of the bureaucratic structure of Washington, relating to the events of 9/11 and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. The book has five chapters: 1) focuses on intelligence data collected up to 2001; 2) discusses the interaction of various defense related departments; 3) integrates the collection of intelligence data in the months/days preceding 9/11, 4) discusses the bureaucratic climax to 9/11, and 5) focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Farmer ties these chapters together by analyzing the failure of our bureaucracy to communicate freely among and within departments, and he emphasizes the desire of the Clinton administration to ""change the culture of our national bureaucracy away from complacency and entitlement toward initiative and empowerment"" that went "tragically unrealized in the years, months, weeks, and days leading to 9/11." An Appendix contains a time-line of the hijackers' movements: 1991-2002.
Farmer frequently references The 9/11 Commission, on which he served as Senior Counsel. He stresses the difficulty the Commission had in obtaining information from various defense related agencies, notwithstanding the administration itself, however, he does not object to the "official" explanation of 9/11. Hence, truth can sometimes be misleading when what is reported is documented but fails to include all aspecs of that truth.
A few omissions include: conflict of interests within The 9/11 Commission, the resignation of Congressman McClellan, key testimony from FBI personnel, and reference to the collapse of Building #7. Farmer does not distinguish between the disintegration of Flight 77 and forensic testing that identified all passengers on that flight from DNA analyses! Curiously, his list of hijackers is compatible with that of the administration, which fails to account for those hijackers missing on flight manifests, notwithstanding those named hijackers discovered to be residing citizens of Saudi Arabia.
- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Riverhead Books; 1st edition (September 8, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9781594488948
- ISBN-13: 978-1594488948
- ASIN: 1594488940
- Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
- Customer Reviews: 36 customer reviews
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