The title pretty well sums it up. Unfortunately the book contains precious little information about the CIA post September 11, which is understandable considering Weiner’s use of declassified sources. This leaves us with little more than a terse history lesson, and Weiner’s tone is consistently ashen. I don’t believe there is a single page when he takes a positive tone on the agency, or any of the main actors. This would be fine if he gave us varying degrees of criticism or alternate paths that could have been taken, but as it stands it feels like a continuous ream of pessimism.