Thought this piece / book interesting given so much speculative nonsense.
"America’s domestic politics may be more ambiguous than they were in the years covered by this book — today, the ultimate boss of the F.B.I. is that onetime community organizer with all of those supposedly questionable ’60s ties — but many of the same problems exposed in this book still exist. Whether it’s Valerie Plame, Ruby Ridge or Roger Clemens, we see the same tendency of politicians to obsess over personal vendettas and of police to chase harmless bugaboos while really dangerous crime and corruption flowers unmonitored. An F.B.I. obsessed with drug trafficking and white-power extremists missed the terrorist conspiracy leading up to 9/11, and the same national police forces today ignore high-level corruption on Wall Street in favor of infiltrating the scattershot Occupy protest movements."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/review/subversives-by-seth-rosenfeld.html
"America’s domestic politics may be more ambiguous than they were in the years covered by this book — today, the ultimate boss of the F.B.I. is that onetime community organizer with all of those supposedly questionable ’60s ties — but many of the same problems exposed in this book still exist. Whether it’s Valerie Plame, Ruby Ridge or Roger Clemens, we see the same tendency of politicians to obsess over personal vendettas and of police to chase harmless bugaboos while really dangerous crime and corruption flowers unmonitored. An F.B.I. obsessed with drug trafficking and white-power extremists missed the terrorist conspiracy leading up to 9/11, and the same national police forces today ignore high-level corruption on Wall Street in favor of infiltrating the scattershot Occupy protest movements."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/review/subversives-by-seth-rosenfeld.html