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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... decades. My father often lent the tickets out, but he occasionally returned to Dolphins games after I left for college. It was part of growing up for me, watching the Dolphins in searing heat, and attending that first hurricanes ...
... decade and that has defined the U.S. intelligence community and U.S. foreign policy. It is not a story about CIa secrets, which we were all sworn to protect when we entered the service, nor is it a critique of the many senior policy and ...
... decades witnessing major breaking events around the world, and trying to understand and explain to policymakers how events overseas might affect the United States, but none of us could have pieced together that evening what our world ...
... 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 did know that I ...
... decade in this counterterrorism fight. There was no way to anticipate what followed. Those of us on the team knew ... decades underestimated Dobbins: “he doesn't know this turf in afghanistan.” “This is complicated, and he doesn't know ...
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 |