No Backup: A Female Agent's Life in the FBI
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (669 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786712783 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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As her tale unfolds, so do the FBI’s many problems, one of them being the bureau’s persistent lack of cooperation with other investigative agencies — an attitude instilled from its inception by J. Dew worked undercover against criminals, spies, and terrorists. In No Backup, Dew makes a powerful call for change and lays out a blueprint for FBI reform.. She supervised the bureau’s international response to the Achille Lauro hijacking and signed the arrest warrant for Abu Abbas. Yet for all her accomplishments, Rosemary Dew remained a “female” agent first and “special” agent second, treated with disdain, sexually harassed, and denied the opportunities and privileges of male agents. Special Agent Dew views the FBI as a dysfunctional family where those who don’t fit the Hoover mold are not welcome. In her memoir, Dew relives her FBI life from the training academy to the most sensitive missions of national security. Rosemary Dew, who earned the title of Special Agent of the FBI, was recipient of eight commendations from FBI directors, and was the seventh woman to be named supervisor at FBI headquarters, has opened up the files on the agency and r
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. She further charges that the FBI has poor internal communication and cooperation with other agencies, which may have contributed to its lack of prior knowledge of the September 11 attacks and also to the mishandling of other cases. From Publishers Weekly Dew, who worked for the FBI from 1977 to 1990 in positions of increasing responsibility, delivers, with the assistance of writer and reporter Pape, a gripping expos‚ of the entrenched discrimination against women agents that is rampant throughout the bureau. During her initial training at the FBI Academy in Virginia, she and other women trainees were berated by instructors and subjected to inappropriate sexual overtu
Interesting Insight M. Winter The book seems like a really interesting insight in the the "real" FBI including the Old Boys Club, sexual harassment, the lack of organization and training for certain types of tasks. I like the quotes at the beginning of each chapter.. Dr. Peter Kassebaum said No Backup: A female Agent's Life in the FBI. No Backup: A Female Agent's Lifein the FBI©byRosemary N. Dew and Pat PapeA fascinating read which combines the personal experiences of Special Agent Rosemary Dew who spent thirteen years with the FBI. She was in a unique position to gain insight and has produced a detailed analysis of the culture of the FBI and has delved into the reasons behind some of it's more infamous failures. The overall thrust of the book suggests that the FBI's problems reside within the culture of the organization. Rosemary Dew contends that the FBI will continue to be plagued by emb. Enlightening and insightful A Customer Readers' reactions to this book will be influenced by their expectations. It's not a book about shoot-em-ups and cloak-and-dagger. For me, it's a book about how the FBI institution and individual FBI agents influence each other, and the results. The author argues that the negative behavior and negative attitudes that she experienced in her small part of the FBI world are the same behavior and attitudes that led to major consequences for the entire FBI and the country. I give the book five stars for this insight alone.Throughout the book, the author reminds the rea