Annie Jacobsen has a history of publishing sensational, conspiracy-driven books that sell well. All was quiet again.” You get the picture: Both Waugh and his biographer love a little blood and gore. In Jacobsen’s epilogue, she has dinner at an Irish pub with Cofer Black, former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center. In my opinion , Black, Waugh and the legions of covert-action partisans in the CIA have destroyed the agency’s culture of true intelligence collection. And when she’s not pretending to be a biographer, Jacobsen writes TV scripts for shows like “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” — which explains a lot about this unfortunate book.

Source: Washington Post May 24, 2019 13:30 UTC