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In 1975, fresh out of rules university and working a numbing job at the Treasury Office, John Rizzo needed "a total shot at night" and delivered his rétotalé to the Central Intelligence Agency. He previously no idea that more than 30 years later, after providing under 11 CIA directors and seven presidents, he'd become a notorious public physique - symbolic and a sufferer of the poisonous winds swirling in post-9/11 Washington. From providing as the point person responding to for the Iran-Contra scandal to approving the guidelines that govern waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques", John Rizzo observed and participated in practically all the significant functions of the CIA's modern history. In Company Man, Rizzo graphs the CIA's development from shadowy entity to a business subjected to new laws, rules, and a apparently never-ending string of general population controversies. Rizzo offers a direct window in to the CIA in the years after the 9/11 attacks, when he served as the agency's top lawyer or attorney, with oversight of actions that remain the subject of intense controversy today. In Company Man, Rizzo is the first CIA standard to ever illustrate what "black sites" look like from the within and he provides the most comprehensive consideration ever before written of the "torture tape" fiasco surrounding the interrogation of Al Qaeda think Abu Zubaydah and the delivery, growth, and loss of life of the improved interrogation program. Spanning more than three ages, Company Man is the most authoritative insider consideration of the CIA ever before written - a groundbreaking, well-timed, and remarkably candid history of American brains.
