| THE THREAT How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump Andrew G. McCabe New York: St. Martin's Press, February 2019 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-250-20757-9 | ||||
| ISBN 1-250-20757-6 | 273pp. | HC | $29.99 | |
| Page 24: | "I caught the 302 bug reading interview reports from a public corruption case involving a pugnacious U.S. senator, his brother, and some questionable interactions they had with a defense contractor." |
| I'm guessing this was Bob Dornan. I could be wrong. |
| Page 40: | "The tattoos are an intricate symbolic language, inscribed with ballpoint pen ink and sewing needles, dark and rough and hittery-skittery." |
| "hittery-skittery"? |
| Page 76: | "...Rauf taught Ali how to build liquid explosive devices using common chemicals— [omitted]— that could be detonated with AA batteries." |
| I omitted the names of these chemicals. Naming them probably doesn't give anyone much of a clue — but what is gained in doing it? |
| Page 182: | "A special prosecutor could have been appointed to oversee the case..." and later "Had there been a competent, credible special counsel running Midyear Exam independently—the way Bob Mueller's Russia investigation has been run—I think circumstances would have been very different, and we would not have been where we ended up in July. |
| The terms "special prosecutor" and "special counsel" are not interchangeable. |
| Page 246: | "He took the news the same way the rest had seemed to take it. As a reality to accept." |
| Punctuation: S/B "seemed to take it: As". |
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