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A pulitzer prizewinning reporters riveting account of the transformation of the cia and americas special operations forces into manhunting and killing machinesthe most momentous change in american warfare over the past decade has taken place away from the battlefields of afghanistan and ir. The cia today has become, more than ever, a paramilitary agency, ordered by. The way of the knife kindle edition by mazetti, mark. Army green berets raided a compound in kandahar, killing more than forty men inside without. The way of the knife provides a stunning, inside account of the cias transformation after 911 from an intelligence agency into a global clandestine killing machine. Mark mazzetti is one of a group of new york times reporters who specialize in covering and sometimes disclosing the secrets of various elements of the us intelligence and national security apparatus.
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