On July 26, 2014, U.S. embassy personnel safely evacuated from Tripoli in an overland convoy to Tunisia during an intensely kinetic period of the Libyan civil war.
Rival militias repeatedly launched rockets and heavy weapons in the 13 days before the entire cadre of embassy staff safely made the treacherous thirty-hour drive through hostile territory in the Sahara desert.
This is the breathtaking story former CIA officer Sarah M. Carlson recounts in her new book “In the Dark of War: A CIA Officer’s Inside Account of the U.S. Evacuation from Libya.”
Experiencing PTSD after her tour of duty in Libya, Carlson decided to leave CIA and start an entirely new life.
Her truncated CIA career is an admonition to senior government officials about how ineffectual policy threatens not only our national security but also the retention of our intelligence professionals, whose exceptional motivation to serve and sacrifice is not without its limits.
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