Enemies: "The book deals with “rumors about the FBI and its dirty tricks [that] have been circulating for years” and suggests Weiner “seeks to set the record straight on everything" - review of Enemies by Weiner, Tim (2012). Enemies: A History of the FBI. New York: Random House
Posted: February 23, 2016 Reviewed by Hayden Peake. [1] Pulitzer prize winner, Tim Weiner, has written several books about American intelligence. Betrayal was about the counterespionage failure in the Aldrich Ames case. [2] Then came Legacy of Ashes , which alleged serial blundering at the CIA. [3] In Enemies he has applied the same scrutiny to the FBI. All three of his books have been frequently, in most cases favorably, reviewed. In her review of Enemies , NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston writes that the book deals with “rumors about the FBI and its dirty tricks [that] have been circulating for years” and suggests Weiner “seeks to set the record straight on everything from providing Sen. Joseph McCarthy with secret reports to … surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr.” [4] In fact, the book provides even wider coverage, focusing on civil liberties violations from the Palmer raids in the 1920s, to the Weathermen, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the Bureau’s growing role combat