Tim Weiner on 'Legacy of Ashes' [video 60min]

Tim Weiner discuses his book Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. Weiner's research included the use of over 50,000 documents and interviews with ten CIA Directors. He analyzes the inherent difficulties in maintaining classified information in an open democracy and argues that the CIA has consistently struggled in the field of espionage. A finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, Weiner is a journalist for the New York Times and has reported on the CIA for twenty years. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his reportage of secret spending by the Pentagon in 1998 while working for the Philadelphia Inquirer and is the author of Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget and co-author of Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy.