Cover Up: What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror

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Exposing intelligence failures, government missteps post-9/11.

If recent history around important events intrigues you, "Cover Up" by Peter Lance is an essential read. It delves into the complexities and controversies of the war on terror, uncovering layers of governmental decisions that Lance argues undermined national security. It's a book that not only presents thorough investigative journalism but also challenges you to think critically about the narratives presented to us by authorities.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Cover Up: What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror

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ISBN: 9780060795115
Authors: Peter Lance
Date of Publication: 2005-09-06
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Politics, History
Goodreads rating: 3.89
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Alongside the bestselling 9/11 Commission Report is investigative journalist Peter Lance's expose of the government's decade-long cover-up about al Qaeda, and how they're still hiding the truth today. In the groundbreaking 1000 Years for Revenge, Peter Lance exposed the FBI's twelve-year record of negligence that led to the attacks of 9/11. Now, alongside the bestselling 9/11 Commission Report, Lance's Cover Up proves that the government has been covering up its own counter-terror failures since the mid-1990s and continues to do so today. Part I presents new major revelations about Ramzi Yousef, bin Laden's master bomber, and a plan to use his fellow prisoner, the convicted Mafioso Greg Scarpa Jr., to mine Yousef for information. In 1996, while Yousef was awaiting trial, the terrorist told Scarpa in detail how al Qaeda was planning to blow up an airliner in order to secure a mistrial. Yousef was even given access to an outside phone line so that the Feds could monitor his calls. But the plan Yousef reached his cohorts and TWA 800 was blown out of the sky. Yet the critical Scarpa intel was ultimately disregarded; if Scarpa were presented as a credible witness, it would have undermined a series of cases in which Scarpa had been rejected to protect a crooked FBI agent. The
 

Exposing intelligence failures, government missteps post-9/11.

If recent history around important events intrigues you, "Cover Up" by Peter Lance is an essential read. It delves into the complexities and controversies of the war on terror, uncovering layers of governmental decisions that Lance argues undermined national security. It's a book that not only presents thorough investigative journalism but also challenges you to think critically about the narratives presented to us by authorities.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.