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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... 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 ever been ...
... leaders wanted to return to a world thirteen centuries ago, might stage another “terrorist spectacular” that would have civilians jumping to their deaths from burning buildings in america. The intelligence industry I had been a part of ...
... leaders there even as the fighting raged across the border. we had a security detail with us. I mentioned to one of them that I had recently bought farmland due west of washington, D.C., in the rolling hills of Virginia's Shenandoah ...
... leader of this fractious group was always at the top of the list of presidential candidates. There is an inordinate amount of public scrutiny today about Karzai, and whether he is up to the task. as with so much ofwhat I have seen ...
... leaders from afghanistan's legendary warring factions. I had a modest role in his team, but at that time, in fall 2001, the CIa had a huge role in providing covert support to the afghan elements that ousted the Taliban. I had spent a ...
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 |