John Rizzo had a thirty-four-year career as a lawyer at the CIA, culminating with seven years as the Agency's chief legal officer. In the post-9/11 era, he helped create and implement the full spectrum of aggressive counterterrorist operations against Al Qaeda, including the so-called "enhanced interrogation program" and lethal strikes against the Al Qaeda leadership. He has served as senior counsel at a Washington DC law firm and is a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution. He is a graduate of Brown University and George Washington University Law School.
"Company Man is simply the most revealing insider account to date
of the top ranks of the CIA during its most historic--and
controversial--era. There is news and humor in every chapter.
Frankly, I often found myself wondering why the CIA's
pre-publication censors signed off on some of it."--Dana Priest,
two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Washington Post
and co-author of Top S
"A wonderful book by a man who was in the eye of the storm for
thirty-four years. Told with humor and unfailing appreciation for
the politics of espionage, Company Man is the best book out there
on the modern CIA."--Robert Baer, New York Times-bestselling author
of See No Evil and The Perfect Kill
"An exceptionally valuable resource. What this book does well,
among other things, is explain the inner workings of the processes
of the most controversial CIA programs of the past decade....
Reading John Rizzo's book, and being more familiar with the scope
of law within the area of national security law would help citizens
and reporters to process the actions and accusations of our
nation's elected and appointed leaders.... Company Man is an
excellent read."--Tobias T. Gibson, Law and Politics Book
Review
"CIA Directors have come and gone over the past several decades.
There were two constants at the agency: crises and John Rizzo in
the Office of General Counsel helping to manage them. A larger than
life character, with great style, nobody worked harder to protect
the nation and the men and women of CIA than John Rizzo. Company
Man offers fresh insights into the some of the most highly debated
national security issues of our time, from the perspective of an
honest and dedicated public servant. It is a must read for those
trying to understand some very important moments in the history of
the CIA."--George J. Tenet, Former Director of Central
Intelligence
"Few books have this scope or insider perspective on the CIA. Rizzo
seems to have been there for everything -- from Iran-contra to
Valerie Plame to the arrival of President Obama. And that makes
Company Man a front-row seat on the hidden world of intelligence
over the past 30 years.... Rizzo rose from humble beginnings to
become a fixture in national intelligence.... An atlas to navigate
the dark, murky morality that governs the business of
intelligence."--Dina Temple-Raston "Washington Post "
"John Rizzo has seen it all in his 30 years as a CIA lawyer, and he
tells the truth in this absorbing, well-written memoir of his life
as a Company Man. Think of Tom Hagen, the Corleone family lawyer in
"The Godfather," and you begin to get the flavor of what Rizzo had
seen and heard. He draws vivid portraits of the agency's great
characters and their sometimes outrageous schemes. The best thing
about the book is that you sense Rizzo never stopped being a lawyer
or trying to give his clients good, straight-up advice. If you're
interested in the inside life of the CIA, read this book!"--David
Ignatius, Washington Post columnist and New York Times-bestselling
author of Body of Lies
"Revealing... Whatever conclusion you draw, Rizzo's book makes an
important contribution to history and the debate over
interrogation.... Company Man is tailor-made for CIA buffs. Rizzo's
career as an agency lawyer spanned the decades from Iran-Contra to
drones, with Russian turncoat Aldrich Ames, the rise of
al-Qaida.... His book manages to strike notes that are both earnest
and candid. That alone sets Company Man apart in the genre."--Matt
Apuzzo "Associated Press "
"Rizzo saw and heard a lot. The astonishing roster of his bosses
begins with William Colby, followed by George H.?W. Bush,
Stansfield Turner, William Casey, William Webster, Robert Gates,
James Woolsey, John Deutch, George Tenet, Porter Goss, and Leon
Panetta. Rizzo's portraits of these individuals in action--some of
them legendary figures in the history of American espionage--make
this memoir worth the price of admission. But Company Man also
holds interest for the light it sheds on a variety of quasi-secret
subjects, some of them highly controversial."--Gabriel Schoenfeld
"The Weekly Standard "
"When the CIA was in trouble, big trouble, it called John... Rizzo
knows where the bodies are buried because he helped stash them.
Company Man reads like the CIA's conscience: what the CIA was
thinking as it shifted from collecting information to killing
terrorists after 9/11. Why did the CIA violently interrogate
suspects and then destroy the evidence? Rizzo knows, and he's
talking."--Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent and
author of War Journal
"John Rizzo, formerly the CIA's top attorney, has superbly captured
the scope of his fascinating career in Company Man. Not only does
he cover the major espionage and covert action of the decades he
served, he also conveys an enduring and critical lesson for all
liberal democracies--the centrality of the rule of law at the nexus
of foreign policy and intelligence. John, who always provided clear
and honest counsel to the CIA's Clandestine Service, has crafted an
important book with the same sense of intellectual integrity and
duty."--Ambassador Henry A. Crumpton, New York Times-bestselling
author of The Art of Intelligence, Chairman & CEO of Crumpton Group
LLC and 24-year veteran of the CIA's Clandestine Ser
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