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From a top-level operative in the counterterrorism device of the CIA comes an explosive memoir about the behind-the-scenes fight Al Qaeda after Sept 11. Since the fatality of Osama Bin Laden, desire for counterterrorism is at an all-time high. Most people have no idea that Bin Laden's fatality was the culmination of many years of covert businesses and tactics essentially overseen by Jose Rodriguez from 2001 to past due 2007 and built on by his successors. Just like a real-life Jack Bauer from television's 24, Rodriguez's sometimes controversial tenure as Main of the Agency's Counterterrorism Centre involved CIA officers taking and detaining key older Al Qaeda operatives and utilizing Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, tools that have been a fundamental element of the Conflict on Terror but are no longer open to those fighting America's fiercest foes. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Columbia, Bolivia, and the Dominican Republic, Rodriguez shares his unlikely voyage from law college learner to CIA recruit and finally, at the end of the 31-year job, to being America's top spy. Rodriguez sparked controversy and a three-year research by his decision to order the destruction of videotapes showing CIA officers doing harsh, but what he explains as "legal, necessary, and effective interrogation[s]". Riveting and timely, Hard Actions also examines the way the current political weather and resulting policies have adversely impacted the CIA's efficiency - even taking away the mechanisms that made feats like the successful Bin Laden procedure possible.
