num_pages: 282
description: On March 16 2018 just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President Donald Trump celebrated on Twitter: Andrew McCabe FIRED a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy.In The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump Andrew G. McCabe offers a dramatic and candid account of his career and an impassioned defense of the FBI's agents and of the institution's integrity and independence in protecting America and upholding our Constitution.McCabe started as a street agent in the FBI's New York field office serving under director Louis Freeh. He became an expert in two kinds of investigations that are critical to American national security: Russian organized crimewhich is inextricably linked to the Russian stateand terrorism. Under Director Robert Mueller McCabe led the investigations of major attacks on American soil including the Boston Marathon bombing a plot to bomb the New York subways and several narrowly averted bombings of aircraft. And under James Comey McCabe was deeply involved in the controversial investigations of the Benghazi attack the Clinton Foundation's activities and Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.The Threat recounts in compelling detail the time between Donald Trump's November 2016 election and McCabe's firing set against a page-turning narrative spanning two decades when the FBI's mission shifted to a new goal: preventing terrorist attacks on Americans. But as McCabe shows right now the greatest threat to the United States comes from within as President Trump and his administration ignore the law attack democratic institutions degrade human rights and undermine the U.S. Constitution that protects every citizen.Important revealing and powerfully argued The Threat tells the true story of what the FBI is how it works and why it will endure as an institution of integrity that protects America.
language: English
title: The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
publisher: St. Martin's Press