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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... issue: procrastination. The CT program, at that time, was an avenue for the best and brightest recruits to undergo an extended training program. It was longer and with more experiences than the standard training exercises, and would ...
... issues in the Middle east and South asia, which was my portfolio at the national Security Council, or talk about what was going on in washington, one often thousand similar conversations that make up the information exchanges that are ...
... issue of which faction, and who, would get the power ministries such as Defense and Foreign affairs. There was also the question ofhow the northern alliance Tajiks, who had formed the bulk of the northern alliance and felt they had ...
... issue of traveling securely around the city and getting into the air hub ofBagram airfield, in the midst of a still-raging civil war and concerns about anti-aircraft fire from the surrounding mountains taking down our lumbering ...
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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 |