"The Great War of Out Time" Michael Morell spent 33 years

Posted: May 23, 2015

director for a time, and finishing a distinguished career as the Agency's Deputy Director. There are few truly "must read" books out there, but along with Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower, Morell's new The Great War of Our Time is one of them. Combine Wright's and Morell's books and you have a history of the rise of Islamist fanaticism vis-a-vis the United States from the end of World War II to the present. Everyone running for president should read both books, but it is doubtful that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will, because the former book indicts her husband and the latter herself........ This is not a book for partisans (Presidents Bush and Obama both come in for praise and criticism) but one for future decision makers. It is also one for political writers. I did not expect such bluntness from so high ranking a former official, but this is exactly the same answer I have received off the record from four other very senior, very experienced decision makers in the long war. The fact is clear that Clinton acted with reckless disregard for the security of the nation she was sworn to serve. The existence of the server on its own should be a disqualifying revelation, and the cover-up of its contents in whole or in part the trigger for a deep investigation into what has been compromised or potentially compromised. No, I do not trust her or her lawyers to have acted from the national interest when they "wiped it down." How could any reasonable person trust her when the setting up of the server was itself a breach of trust? Mr. Morell's book is a great public service. So too was his candid assessment of what Clinton likely did throughout her tenure, which was provide our nation's enemies with a backdoor, full view of what the United States was planning and doing across all theaters of all conflicts at all times. ;