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Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump
Maybe someday
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90/100Critics
6/100Scholars
Author:
Peter Strzok
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date:
September 8, 2020
The FBI veteran behind the Russia investigation draws on decades of experience hunting foreign agents in the United States to explore the threat posed by President Trump.
What The Reviewers Say
Strzok, one of the most notorious FBI officials in history, wants to rehabilitate himself. But he leaves out parts of the story about which most readers probably are most curious—including his relationship with former FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
Strzok delivers a compelling tale, though at times a frustrating one, layered with excessive restraint and insufficient self-awareness. The author says he has become more dogmatic regarding right and wrong as he has grown older. Yet the story he tells, and his own role in it, and that of the institution he long served, are trapped in shades of gray.
He has an axe to grind, and his book makes compelling reading. He offers a window into FBI counter-intelligence work, a defense of his conduct, and a scathing indictment of the president and his administration. Compromised is a significant contribution to the library of Trump tell-alls. It is not dull.
... carefully worded and intermittently intriguing.
