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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust on your cleats. Otherwise, by playing back, you may protect yourself, but you will be less successful in protecting America. "Play to the edge" was Hayden's guiding principle when he ran the National Security Agency, and it remained so when he ran CIA. How did American intelligence respond to terrorism, a major war and the most sweeping technological...
2) Rendition
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After a suspected terrorist is taken away for questioning, his wife begins an inquiry into his disappearance.
The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC....
3) Planes
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"For years, Amira -- a recent convert to Islam living in Rome -- has gone to work, said her prayers, and struggled to piece together her husband's redacted letters from the Moroccan black site where he is imprisoned. She moves as inconspicuously as possible through her modest life, doing her best to avoid the whispered curiosity of her community. Meanwhile, Mel -- once an activist -- is trying to get the suburban conservatives of her small North Carolina...
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