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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... 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 intelligence officials with whom I worked. Observers who have spent ...
... foreign leader you'd only ever heard of in the news getting out ofa limousine to walk through the west wing doors, a nationally recognizable correspondent you'd only ever seen on TV, or a senior government official whose name had only ...
... foreign policy circles. when I returned to the Old eOB office from the coffee shop, it was humming with the news that a plane had flown into the one of the world Trade Center towers. we all flipped on TVs, watching that tower while the ...
... foreign policy so dramatically. It is not that reasoned intelligence analysis could not have pieced together such a story; we learned a painful lesson about understanding this adversary that day. But no one would have believed the ...
... foreign partners and 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 ...
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 |