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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... focused, and too driven. My grades weren't good, David letterman was a great diversion on late-night television, and I soon understood that I would never be able to pursue a doctorate and settle into a professorship. as I searched for ...
... focused on getting out of the city, where the streets were jammed, and hearing from my family—in particular, my brother, a prosecutor in lower Manhattan out of reach because of overburdened cellphone circuits. I couldn't call him for ...
... western backyard and the military “strategic depth” at their nation's back, important to stabilize so they could focus the lion's share of their army on India, their foe on the eastern border. In one meeting with a 9 the 9/11 aftermath.
... focus of attention for people around the world. Much of the initial work Dobbins requested involved transport ... focused on the war in those days, not arranging flights for diplomats. and I could almost hear it in his voice, on the ...
... a tool, used in concert with military and intelligence firepower and benefiting from the focus of a globe that was galvanized in a way we have not seen since. It was a textbook example of military 17 the 9/11 aftermath.
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 |