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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... Moving Beyond the Core of al Qaeda the second War: the intelligence problem of iraq a new view at Cia: deputy director of the Counterterrorist Center the years of threat Watching threats at home: the fBi Calls one More transfer ...
... moved the family, five kids, to Miami from washington, D.C., in the mid-1960s, they bought season tickets to the Dolphins and held them for a few decades. My father often lent the tickets out, but he occasionally returned to Dolphins ...
... move. assuming all rural police officers and sheriffs would be picnicking on the Fourth of July, I edged the speedometer toward 80 miles per hour in what turned out to be a 35-mileper-hour zone. after some time, a cherry-red light ...
... moving up in the CIa and then taking part in the campaign of my generation: the counterterrorism fight after 9/11. It is not only the story of what one lone junior officer did, as a washington-based analyst multiple levels below se ...
... move out of that garage. we slowly found our across the Potomac, passing the billowing smoke from the Pentagon easily visible down the river to the south of the city. another reinforcement of the dawning realization that images once ...
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 |