Takedown: Inside the Hunt for Al QaedaOn September 11, 2001, as Central Intelligence Agency analyst Philip Mudd rushed out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, he could not anticipate how far the terror unleashed that day would change the world of intelligence and his life as a CIA officer. For the previous fifteen years, his role had been to interpret raw intelligence and report his findings to national security decision makers. But within weeks of the 9/11 attacks, he would be on a military aircraft, flying over the Hindu Kush mountains, en route to Afghanistan as part of the U.S. government's effort to support the fledging government there after U.S. forces had toppled the Taliban. Later, Mudd would be appointed deputy director of the CIA's rapidly expanding Counterterrorist Center and then senior intelligence adviser at the FBI. A first-person account of Mudd's role in two organizations that changed dramatically after 9/11, Takedown sheds light on the inner workings of the intelligence community during the global counterterror campaign. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 9
... Karzai's name as the potential leader of this fractious group was always at the top of the list of presidential candidates. There is an inordinate amount of public scrutiny today about Karzai, and whether he is up to the task. as with ...
... Karzai government, it is easy to forget now that american media were using the word “quagmire” to give a sense of ... Karzai's name continued to emerge as the most prominent potential leader to serve as the president of a new afghanistan ...
... Karzai, viewed by the northerners as a southerner. and not only leadership rivalries from Day One, with both sides coming out of decades of mistrust and war, but also questions about how to divide the “power” ministries to provide ...
... Karzai made the astute decision to stay in afghanistan during the Bonn conference. a man who had spent much of afghanistan's civil war in Pakistan, outside the fight in his homeland, now had to be sure to show his fighting mettle while ...
... Karzai's inauguration. There was still extensive work to do as Karzai emerged and the new governing coalition took shape. It is worth remembering the deep divides that run through afghan society, with ethnic Tajiks and hazaras toward ...
Contents
1 | |
2 A Return to Langley | 27 |
Moving Beyond the Core of Al Qaeda | 70 |
The Intelligence Problem of Iraq | 90 |
Deputy Director of the Counterterrorist Center | 104 |
6 The Years of Threat | 135 |
The FBI Calls | 145 |
Intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security | 191 |
Index | 199 |