State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration Book

Reading this book some 8 years after it was published filled me with anger (again) about what was (and is) done in our country's collective name. Done without oversight; in fact, done with the deliberate intention of avoiding ANY oversight. There are no successes trumpeted by Risen and one can be certain given the egotistical and megalomaniac nature of the Bush Administration that any successes would have been "declassified" and brought forth then - or later. Instead, we remain in 2014 waiting for an authorized government accounting of what exactly was done, by whom, and most importantly why. And Risen? He remains haunted by the specter of prosecution under the Espionage Act by the following administration for having this book published and not naming his source(s). In sum, in State of War, risen gives and uncomfortable and unflattering peek at our deep security state and how easily manipulated it is by those lesser angels of our nature.