Jun. 20, 2008: Word for Word: Tim Weiner
APM: Word for Word
English - June 20, 2008 05:00 - 53 minutes - 24.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsSociety & Culture News public radio npr national press club speeches politics clinton rove blair Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Weiner's latest book, "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA," draws on hundreds of interviews and archival documents, revealing decades of blunders that have compromised the country's national security. During a recent speech at the Minneapolis Public Library, Tim Weiner discussed how the CIA evolved over the past six decades, and where it went wrong.