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It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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the wintry chill can seem to leap from the very best winter books’ pages, making you clutch your mug of tea a little closer. As we slog through the January doldrums and temperatures in much of ...