tragic september morning we've witnessed a war on terror that according to journalist and author tom engelhardthas cost the united states over five trillion dollars we've seen torture mass surveillance blue state laws enacted and intelligence community run while the whistleblowers hunted and imprisoned and the roof fabric of our great legal institutions the departments of justice torn apart through fear intimidation and political cowardice not to mention the hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives lost around the world and here at home all thanks to the war on terror but despite all the money spent and lives lost most citizens here in the states and around the world still do not know the whole story of the actions leading up to and after the events of nine eleven that have forever changed the course of history and cemented the intelligence community power and unaccountability as a way of life here in the united states until now thanks to the new book the watchdogs didn't bark which documents authors ray noble shelves and john def is ten year long investigation into the cia n.s.a. and the