Pretty much about JEH, J. Edgar Hoover, a tale of nearly unbroken disaster and failure (but I repeat myself).

The good is that this book is a story of the betrayal of all that was good in the USA and the promotion of all that is worthless & evil.

The bad includes that there are many outright lies in this book, more than I would ever normally tolerate. I thought, in the end, that this was a monument to the "incompetence" thesis, to hide the true "corruption treason" of the FBI. I still think that: that this book is a whitewash, or at least a brown-wash.

Tim lies about the FBI's headquarters in the Oklahoma bombing, dishonestly omitting that the building was the state's FBI headquarters, the completely deserted FBI headquartes at the time of the bombing, though they let the children in the daycare centre die. Tim Weiner also lies in dishonestly claiming that the FBI had a passenger list including the "hi jackers'" names the day after Sept 11. In the real world, the hijackers' names were not added to the passenger lists until nearly two weeks after the 'event'. He wisely sidesteps 9/11 in general, though.

Would have been three or even four stars, but with obvious lies the whole book can not be trusted.