Save Your Money and Your Time
By Larry Johnson on August 17, 2008 at 6:42 PM in CIA, Current Affairs, Valerie Plame Wilson
A new book, The Human Factor by “Ishmael Jones” claims to be an insiders story of the CIA who details its many dysfunctions. The first warning sign that this book is a joke is the fact that it is endorsed by neocon columnist, Max Boot. Boot, who has never worked with the CIA or held a Top Secret clearance, declares that person writing under the name, “Ishmael Jones,” does better than any previous spook in “peeling back layer upon layer of deception to show how dysfunctional the CIA is.” Oh, oh. Not only does Boot end a sentence with a preposition but he implies that he is in a great position to judge a CIA dysfunction. So I read the book and soon discovered that Boot, once again, really does not know what he is talking about. The book is ridiculous and I wasted my time reading it cover to cover.
Jones intimates that he was a NOC (a non-official cover officer like Valerie Plame). Unlike Plame he did not get permission to publish this book. He just went ahead and did it (so he says). Well, when you are reading a book written by a person who declines to give their true name and who provides no identifying information to speak of you are left to form your judgment based on things the author writes about where you do have first hand knowledge of the events. Mr. “Jones” account of Valerie Plame is complete horseshit. He clearly knew nothing about her or her career other than what he has read by critics of Valerie. What is absolutely pathetic is he did not even have the industry or curiosity to read what the current CIA Director in charge of human intelligence operations wrote to a Federal court in explaining why Valerie’s association at the CIA can not (I repeat NOT) be acknowledged prior to February of 2002.
A clown like Jones who misses and misstates facts about Valerie Plame and her work at CIA immediately calls into question everything else he claims to “know” about the CIA. Save your money and your time. Don’t buy this turd of a book. The only true dysfunction revealed in the book is the author. He has trouble with basic facts that a high school kid with a computer can easily verify.
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