“See No Evil” was released in 2003, just 18 months after the terrorist bombings of the Twin Towers in New York City. At the time, it made a big impression, giving readers a rare look inside the secret wars of America’s intelligence services like the CIA, author Bob Baer's former employer. In the 15 years since, audiences have been exposed to shows like “
24
” the “
Americans
” and “
Homeland
” and reports like
The 9/11 Commission Report
findings as well as the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s findings on
CIA torture techniques
. We’ve all become terror experts it seems, and the spycraft that author Bob Baer describes doesn’t feel new and grand, anymore.
What has aged well, though – sadly – are his observations of the geopolitical conflicts in the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Russian-bloc countries. Those areas remain mired in the same religious radicalism, sectarian violence, and tribal wars that he described nearly two decades earlier. His work also shows how far back – as early as 1983, and at the same time agencies began to shed operatives – that the US intelligence services were aware of the potential for large-scale domestic attacks by foreign enemies. It’s grim, sobering reading, and his career dovetails with the rise of that extremism – both at home (World Trade Center bombing in 1993,
Oklahoma City Bombing
of 1995) and abroad (Pan Am flight 103.)
As a primer of the roots of our siege mentality in this country where we make travelers remove their shoes to board a domestic flight, this book is worth your time. Baer writes that our domestic security depends on a robust and apolitical national security apparatus with global reach through well-placed human operatives. That's still a timely message.
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