{"product_id":"disrupt-discredit-and-divide-how-the-new-fbi-damages-democracy-9781620973790","title":"Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eImpressively researched and eloquently argued, former special agent Mike German's \u003cem\u003eDisrupt, Discredit, and Divide\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the transformation of the FBI after the 9\/11 attacks from a law enforcement agency, made famous by prosecuting organized crime and corruption in business and government, into arguably the most secretive domestic intelligence agency America has ever seen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerman shows how FBI leaders exploited the fear of terrorism in the aftermath of 9\/11 to shed the legal constraints imposed on them in the 1970s in the wake of Hoover-era civil rights abuses. Empowered by the Patriot Act and new investigative guidelines, the bureau resurrected a discredited theory of terrorist \"radicalization\" and adopted a \"disruption strategy\" that targeted Muslims, foreigners, and communities of color, and tarred dissidents inside and outside the bureau as security threats, dividing American communities against one another. By prioritizing its national security missions over its law enforcement mission, the FBI undermined public confidence in justice and the rule of law. Its failure to include racist, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, and xenophobic violence committed by white nationalists within its counterterrorism mandate only increased the perception that the FBI was protecting the powerful at the expense of the powerless. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisrupt, Discredit, and Divide\u003c\/em\u003e is an engaging and unsettling contemporary history of the FBI and a bold call for reform, told by a longtime counterterrorism undercover agent who has become a widely admired whistleblower and a critic for civil liberties and accountable government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMike German\u003c\/b\u003e is a fellow with the Liberty and National Security program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School. He has worked at the ACLU and served sixteen years as an FBI special agent. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThinking Like a Terrorist\u003c\/em\u003e as well as \u003cem\u003eDisrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Our Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePolicing White Supremacy\u003c\/em\u003e (The New Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50360880890130,"sku":"9781620973790","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_352c1fef-4486-446f-9baf-e77190b3c9a5.jpg?v=1728366703","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/disrupt-discredit-and-divide-how-the-new-fbi-damages-democracy-9781620973790","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}