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. |
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... united states of america on acid-free paper 24681097531 library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication data Mudd, philip ... Government policy—united states. i. title. [dnlM: 1. Mudd, philip. ] JK468.i6M83 2013 363.325'163092—dc23 [B] ...
... government investigator shows up unannounced to ask him questions about some ... us knew this job was not a good fit: within ten minutes, I had not only told ... american road trip. new england sounded good: cooler weather, a great place ...
... government workers but also change the country—the entire world. like many, I was focused on getting out of the city ... us knew how what exactly was happening in new York. I knew he wasn't in the Trade Center buildings, but no one could ...
... government in the early 1990s. That question quickly became front-and-center: how to piece together a credible ... U.S. government team that would have the task of sorting out how a new government might emerge in afghanistan, one that ...
... U.S. government agencies with overseas missions—State Department, Pentagon civilian brass, military, and CIa. and I told langley, the location of CIa headquarters, that if there was to be a CIa officer detailed to the team, I wanted to ...
Contents
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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 |