Matthew A. Cole is an investigative journalist at The Intercept. He has covered national security since 2005, reporting extensively on the CIA's post-9/11 transformation, on the conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and on the U.S.'s intelligence operations. He was previously an investigative producer for ABC and NBC News, and has written for GQ, Salon, Details, ESPN, and New York. He has won a Deadline Club Award and has received two Emmy nominations for his reporting. A graduate of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Cole lives in Brooklyn with his family.
"The strongest rebuke Special Operations, specifically, the SEAL
community has yet faced during the War on Terror...Code Over
Country is issuing the real report card, the one that Special
Operations Command and Naval Special Warfare have been desperate to
hide for decades. While outstanding journalistic works have been
produced about the SEALs, Code Over Country examines the entire
Navy SEAL enterprise, and where it came off the rails."--Connecting
Vets
"Cole wrote a thorough and frankly brave book."--Spencer Ackerman,
"Forever Wars"
"Matthew Cole is telling us what we, in America, need to know about
some of those men celebrated in movies and media as heroes in SEAL
Team 6. The real issue, as Cole makes clear, is the leadership and
command structure that shields and protects criminal behavior. This
is not a book about heroism, although there is much, but tolerated
wrongdoing."--Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Chain
of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
"Journalist Cole debuts with a searing investigation... Backed by
meticulous research and lucid insights into SEAL culture, this is
an impassioned and persuasive call for reforming one of the world's
most elite fighting forces."--Publishers Weekly
"Matthew Cole has produced a searing and unvarnished history of a
state-sponsored organized crime syndicate that operates globally
with impunity bestowed upon it by the United States government.
Since 9/11, Navy SEAL Team 6 has been elevated to legendary status
in the media, and its members showered with medals and accolades
from presidents, especially in the aftermath of the raid that
killed Osama bin Laden. Through an even-handed accounting of the
failures and successes of SEAL Team 6, from its Cold War origins to
the present, Cole has masterfully documented the bloody, dark
underbelly of these 'quiet warriors.' He exposes the sociopaths and
murderers who operate on the tip of the spear of the covert US war
machine, along with the military and political leaders who have
shielded them from accountability. Code Over Country is a
meticulously crafted corrective aimed at dismantling the dishonest
mythology that dominates the public understanding of the most elite
fighting force in US history."
--Jeremy Scahill, New York Times-bestselling author of Blackwater:
The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army and Dirty
Wars: The World is a Battlefield
"Matthew Cole's Code Over Country is a remarkable achievement. Cole
has flanked the hagiography that has for so long protected the
image of SEAL Team 6, and has cut deep behind the lines to tell the
brutal truth. After reading this book, I realized that there is the
Hollywood version of SEAL Team 6, and then there is the truth, laid
bare by Matthew Cole."--James Risen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
of the forthcoming The Last Honest Man: How Frank Church Fought the
CIA, the Mafia, J. Edgar Hoover, and the National Security State
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