High Stakes Treason

My friend Ian Trotter asked me to write the Forward to his new book on John Brennan. Here it is. Enjoy!

John Brennan’s CIA career is, by now, well-known. It’s a tale of a Middle East expert and mid-level manager whose career was going nowhere when he latched into the coattails of a new CIA Deputy Director by the name of George Tenet in the mid-1990s. The two hit it off and Tenet pulled Brennan up with him, ultimately making him the CIA’s Executive Directo…