Contents

Title Page

Epigraph

Prologue

Introduction

One: Who Is Behind the Intelligence Coup?

How the Coup Is Unfolding

James Comey: Leader of the Coup?

Robert Mueller III: The Battering Ram?

The Unknown Leakers Are the Real Culprits in the Coup

Is Christopher Steele a Rogue Spook?

Another Friend Who Helped Out: Meet Sir Andrew Wood

Help from Foreign Spooks

Two: Getting the Dossier Out . . . with a Little Help from John McCain

Getting the Dossier Out

Intrigue at the Halifax Conference

Enter John McCain

McCain Learns About the Dossier

Undercover Operations to Get the Dossier Out

The Dossier Comes Out

Three: The Dossier

What’s in the Dossier?

The Myth of Michael Cohen, Consiglieri, Secret Agent in Prague

The Hackers Who Couldn’t Hack It

The Alleged Perverse Sex Acts in Moscow

The Dossier Actually Backs Off Its Own Claims About Carter Page

The Dossier’s Iffy Sources

Contradictions Within the Dossier

Misspellings in the Dossier

Four: What Were the Brits Up To?

The Trump-Putin Issue Lifts Hillary

The British Use Russian Meddling to Get Obama to Be Tough on Putin

Five: How the Intelligence Community Went from Red to Blue

The Intelligence Community Sentences Trump to Death by a Thousand Leaks

Bush-43: New Life to Intelligence

Intel Overreaches

The Left Takes Over Intel

Brennan Makes the CIA Blue

Holder Drives the Intel Community to the Left

The Leaking Begins

Six: In Like Flynn . . . Out Like Flynn

Seven: And the Leaks Kept Coming . . .

All Hell Breaks Loose: Trump Fires Comey

Obama: The Catalyst

Eight: The Media Invents a Scandal: Russian Intervention in the U.S. Election

U.S.-Russia Relationship Deteriorates

The Putin-Trump Bromance

Nine: It Wasn’t the First Time

China’s Efforts to Meddle in the 1996 U.S. Election

Clinton Meddles in 1996 Russian Election; Tries to Re-elect Boris Yeltsin

Ten: How the Intel Community Came to Pose a Threat to Democracy

The Birth of the CIA

The CIA Moves into Covert Action

The CIA Turns Its Malicious Skills on Americans

Meanwhile, the FBI Increases Its Domestic Surveillance

Watergate: How the FBI Destroyed the CIA

Congress Strikes Down the CIA

CIA: Picking Up the Pieces

The “Rogue Elephant” Gets a Trainer: Bob Casey Takes Over the CIA

The Bonfire of Intelligence: Near-Death Experiences at the CIA and FBI

The CIA, Too, Withers and Almost Dies

Ignored by Clinton

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

About the Authors

Also by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

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