Table of Contents
Author's Note xv
Introduction xvii
Prologue xix
Chapter 1 Rotten Apples or Rotten Culture? 1
Part I The Good: Sometimes It Is Like the Movies
Chapter 2 And So, It Began 16
Chapter 3 Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned 19
Chapter 4 Buried Alive 31
Chapter 5 Marching Orders from A Saint 45
Chapter 6 Bravery Amongst Chaos 48
Chapter 7 Back to the Bronx 58
Chapter 8 The Training Division 67
Chapter 9 American Hustle: the Movie vs. the Real Deal 73
Chapter 10 "The President Has Been Shot!" 83
Chapter 11 A Tale of Two Ambassadors 107
Chapter 12 Lies, Lies, and More Lies 122
Chapter 13 "Bring Me Good News" 130
Chapter 14 Death Over Water 137
Chapter 15 "Turn Over Every Stone" 152
Chapter 16 Death in a Bunker 167
Chapter 17 "That's An Islamist!" 173
Part II The Bad: Injustice
Chapter 18 "Arrest That Woman!" 182
Chapter 19 A Promising Young Life Cut Short 187
Chapter 20 "Do You Have Your Gun?" 194
Chapter 21 Black Mass: the Movie vs. the Real Deal 207
Chapter 22 "It Takes Two, Baby, It Takes Two" 211
Chapter 23 He Died in Chains 217
Chapter 24 A Tale of Two Attorneys 222
Chapter 25 "You Just Keep Digging, Gary" 231
Chapter 26 Life and Death in Iran 237
Part III The Ugly: The Fall of the FBI
Chapter 27 Mueller Changed the Culture 244
Chapter 28 A Tale of Two Conspiracies 250
Chapter 29 Transparency and Institutional Failure 259
Chapter 30 There Was No Obstruction of Justice 267
Chapter 31 The Worst FBI Director 273
Chapter 32 The FBI Was Lucky to Have Bill Barr 277
Chapter 33 The Abuse of General Flynn 282
Chapter 34 Need for Intelligence Reform 289
Chapter 35 Fix The FBI's Broken Culture 303
Chapter 36 Can the Culture Be Won Back? 316
Conclusion 319
Epilogue: "Morning in America" 321
Afterword 325
Bibliography 327
Glossary 333
Appendix 343
Acknowledgments 345