Ballantine Rossmller, A: Still Broken

Advance praise for Still Broken "A. J. Rossmiller has given us a crucial piece of the Iraq debacle-a bottom-up, insider's account of how the U.S. intelligence community has been twisted by politics and paralyzed by bureaucracy. Still Broken is also a powerful personal story of how a smart, well-educated, and patriotic young American tried to serve his country, in Iraq and in the Pentagon, and became disillusioned by the rank incompetence at the heart of the so-called 'Global War on Terror.' And while Rossmiller demonstrates, repeatedly, that his taste in music really needs an upgrade, he also proves to be an engaging, skillful, and funny writer." -Joe Klein, Time political columnist "A gripping ground-level view of the exasperating journey of a brave intelligence analyst trying to serve his country at a time of cherry-picked, slanted, and downright deceitful intelligence. As he debriefs detainees, plans for raids in Baghdad, and offers apolitical Iraq analysis in Washington, his conscience never fails him, even as the leaders of his country do. It is one thing to decry 'politicized intelligence, ' and another, deeper thing to live, as Rossmiller did, with the devastating consequences of ideology and ego run amok." -Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Problem from Hell "A. J. Rossmiller is a truth-teller, a rarity today, and the title of his book-Still Broken-is the succinct truth about the U.S. intelligence apparatus. That apparatus is not only failing, but it is failing catastrophically. To understand part of the reason why, read Mr. Rossmiller's book." -Lawrence Wilkerson, Pamela Harriman Visiting Professor of Government at the College of William &Mary,; and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell "A. J. Rossmiller has emerged as one of the most insightful and sophisticated foreign-policy commentators in our country. He combines a passionate patriotism and irreplaceable real-life experience with the U.S. military in documenting the