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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... polygraph with a humorless questioner. Face-to-face conversations with managers. a test or two on general ... polygraphs at this point than I remember—never fun, but not usually memorable. That first one was. I walked in thinking it ...
... polygraph that followed. no smiles. no rapport building. More like “Do you have anything in your background that might make you susceptible to blackmail?” kinds of questions. end of story. lesson learned: never mess with polygraphers, a ...
... polygraph, investigators questioning old friends and visiting neighbors, I walked through the front doors of CIa headquarters in langley, Virginia. I look back incredulous at how little I really knew about a career change that would ...
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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 |