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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... afghanistan, and a decade of disinterest in the country following the Soviet withdrawal, it was hard to imagine how decisive action could come without great risk of america ending up on the same path as the Soviets. like many, though, I ...
... afghanistan known as the northern alliance and began to sweep south in a remarkable offensive, other agencies in washington contemplated the political problem that had confounded policymakers since the departure of the Soviets from ...
... afghanistan and the broader South asian scene for decades underestimated Dobbins: “he doesn't know this turf in afghanistan.” “This is complicated, and he doesn't know the players.” “This is too complex to learn so quickly—they should ...
... afghanistan's neighbor states on who might emerge from the chaos to become a focal point for new political hope in afghanistan. The adventures along the way were memorable, such a cluster of unique incidents that they seem fanciful in ...
... afghanistan so easily. would they continue to view their neighbor as a place where they pulled the strings, at the expense of accepting the less palatable solution of a regionally and internationally accepted government that might not ...
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 |