How the Real NCIS Let the Navy Down

Craig Whitlock's new book on the Fat Leonard case exposes how the Navy's counterintelligence service was subverted by corrrupted US Navy officers

Practically anyone who owns a TV has heard of NCIS, the long running CBS drama featuring some very attractive military detectives in a fictional unit of the Navy’s Criminal Investigative Service. Of course, these khaki-clad sleuths triumph over bureaucratic roadblocks, blind alleys and evil geniuses to nail the bad guys most every week, making it the mo…