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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... meeting those who had made the cut, thinking that I had already slipped behind my peers in failing to get over the bar for that program. Beyond interviews and the polygraph, there was one other minor hurdle that worried me. Shortly ...
... meetings with heads of state and briefing the president in the Oval Office, answering questions in the well ofthe Congress of the United States, traveling around the world, and seeing some of the most remarkable people doing some ...
... meeting at the Department of State in the Foggy Bottom section of downtown washington and quickly sensing that, to get this job done right and quickly, we had to get on the road. Dobbins took charge immediately, using each of us to ...
... 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.
... meeting with a senior Pakistani Foreign Ministry official, the wealth of strikingly beautiful artifacts decorating his house in Islamabad appeared almost like the collection of an officer who had served a lifetime as a colonial ...
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 |