The Insider Threat - by Adam Lovinger (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This stunning whistleblower account reveals how the Deep State weaponizes federal powers against its political enemies and explores the disastrous reality of the Obama Doctrine, which seeks to create a global balance of power by weakening American preeminence and strengthening America's foreign adversaries.

During his eight-year reign, Barack Obama transformed the U.S. national security, intelligence, and law enforcement bureaucracies as no other president in history has done, advancing a policy of U.S. diminishment that has undermined our global primacy to this day.

In The Insider Threat, Adam Lovinger draws on more than ten years of experience at the Pentagon to explain how the Obama administration orchestrated this coup.

Obama spent his first year in office persuading Americans that the U.S. should step back from its global leadership role to create a new world order based on "balance of power" politics. But what he never said out loud was that this meant Washington would transfer power to its enemies. When his 2009 worldwide "apology tour" proved a debacle, Obama changed tack--to subversion by bureaucratic fiat.

He spent the next eight years staging a stealth revolution inside America's most sensitive government agencies, using ideological infighters to replace America's strategic objectives with those of China, Russia, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. In return, through a range of acts and omissions described in this book, America's adversaries helped Obama and Joe Biden win elections, wealth, and prestige.

Equal parts George Orwell and Franz Kafka, The Insider Threat exposes--for the first time--the secret playbook that Lovinger discovered on his U.S. Department of Defense computer. This file reveals how corrupt senior officials enrich their patrons at taxpayer expense, advance the interests of America's enemies, undermine core U.S. national interests from within, and make administrative reform impossible.

Even longtime Washington insiders will be shocked at the extent of lawlessness that now passes for normal in America's administrative state.

Review Quotes

"In The Insider Threat, Adam Lovinger reveals how left-wing bureaucrats abused their authorities to subvert President Donald J. Trump, destroy his supporters, and stifle reform. His firsthand experiences shed much new light on the Crossfire Hurricane Scandal as well as the weaponization of the security clearance system against conservatives. A must read for citizens, members of Congress, and federal employees."

--Mark Moyar, author of Masters of Corruption

"The Insider Threat is an astonishing first-person account of a patriot who lived and worked inside the belly of the Beltway beast--where a corrupt and venal class of bureaucratic careerists have arrogated to themselves the power to rule Americans against their will and even plotted to topple a President. This long-awaited memoir from former Pentagon official Adam Lovinger reads like a spy thriller with twists and turns remarking the maze that was once the capital of our constitutional republic. it's remarkable narrative chronicling how one man walked through the labyrinth of lies in search of truth and justice and came out the other side with his moral sense even clearer and sharper than before."

--Lee Smith

"Adam Lovinger is a patriot who was singled out and persecuted for blowing the whistle on dishonest officials protected at the highest levels of our government. Based on his personal experience as both an eyewitness and a direct victim of government malfeasance, The Insider Threat tells the disturbing story of how a cabal of partisan hacks burrowed into the federal bureaucracy and corrupted our governance."

--Devin G. Nunes, former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

"With The Insider Threat Adam Lovinger has crafted a spellbinding and incredible read!"

--The Honorable David Bernhardt, 53rd U.S. Secretary of the Interior

About the Author

Adam S. Lovinger currently serves as vice president for strategic affairs at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington D.C.-based think-and-do tank. In 2017 he was senior director for strategic assessments at the U.S. National Security Council (NSC). From 2006 to 2017 he provided direct support on long-term U.S. national security strategy to the secretary of defense from the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment (ONA). Lovinger has served as adjunct professor in three Georgetown University graduate schools. He also guest lectured on the emerging U.S.-China long-term strategic competition, U.S. grand strategy formation, and net assessment at the Yale University Superpowers of Influence series, the German Council on Foreign Relations, the Oxford University Changing Character of War series, the Permanent Joint Headquarters Command of the British Armed Forces, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung think tank, the European Commission, and the United Services Institute of India. He holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Georgetown Law School.