[3] In his 2008 book, Crush the Cell, NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Counter Terrorism Michael A. Sheehan wrote that the center "provided a team of intelligence analysts that supported our work with timely and accurate reports on fast-breaking issues".
Andrew C. McCarthy, the deputy U.S. attorney who prosecuted the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, wrote in The Wall Street Journal in 2006 that "Riebling's analysis has now become conventional wisdom, accepted on all sides.
Wedge traces many of the problems to differing personalities, missions, and corporate cultures: while the CIA evolved from freewheeling foreign operations, the FBI focused on domestic security and the punishment of criminals.
[1] Discussing the paperback edition in The Washington Post, Vernon Loeb wrote: "If Riebling's thesis--that the FBI–CIA rivalry had 'damaged the national security and, to that extent, imperiled the Republic'--was provocative at the time, it seems prescient now, with missed communications between the two agencies looming as the principal cause of intelligence failures related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
[7] Kirkus Reviews characterized Church of Spies as "[n]ot only a dramatic disclosure of the Vatican's covert actions, but also an absorbing, polished story for all readers of World War II history.