A book on the war within the executive branch

With a hat-tip to (who else?) Powerline, it turns out that Rowan Scarborough was written a book about the attacks on the administration from within the CIA.

Powerline has been pushing the story for months. It will be interesting to see how the book is received.

Exposed: how Bush-hating bureaucrats in the CIA are sabotaging the war on terror

Sabotage

by Rowan Scarborough

Since the September 11, 2001, attacks on America, intelligence collection has become the number-one weapon in the effort to defeat al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden -- a plot penetrated is an attack stopped. And, to the outside observer, the CIA has performed well as a key partner in the Bush administration's war on terror. But as Rowan Scarborough reveals in this groundbreaking new book, significant elements within the CIA are undermining both the President and national security through leaks, false allegations -- and outright sabotage.

(Conservative Book Club)

The attempts by the CIA to set administration policy mirror similar goings-on in the Department of Justice, and reflect a parallel to power exerted by congressional staffers over those representatives who don't stay in office term after term (term limits would tend to increase the power of congressional staffers).