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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... diplomacy—that came to convulse the planet. living the reality was harder to fathom than any fiction I had read. There was no thought of these implications then, though: only reflection on the enormity ofwhat had just happened, what it ...
... diplomat, ambassador James Dobbins, had served earlier in nation-building roles, developing a reputation for trouble ... diplomatic effort quickly to determine what political process would fill the afghan void. I received word early on ...
... diplomatic table that might never be repeated: the launch of an effort that would be part of american history. Much to my surprise, I got the call to join up. It seemed like a blessing to me; I was to become the CIa liaison to Dobbins's ...
... diplomat with the experiences of weaving together complicated and competing interests in his earlier assignments, Dobbins ... diplomatic team under Dobbins started coalescing early, meeting at the Department of State in the Foggy Bottom ...
... diplomats, intelligence officers, and military men who were driven to help their Taliban allies succeed. Pakistan's choices from those ... Diplomatic Security officers on the detail. after fewer than ten questions, it was clear: 10 chapter 1.
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 |