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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... 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 unusual and interesting things. It wasn't until ...
... president and his advisers were contemplating. It seemed apparent that military action would be imminent: with the Taliban refusing to sever its links to al Qaeda, which had used the afghan safehaven to create the expanding network that ...
... president could authorize and lead was the one that followed: a large military campaign that would put tens of thousands of troops on the ground for years. Surprisingly, I don't remember having that clear sense in the days after the ...
... President Pervez Musharraf knew that he had little choice, and he made a foreign policy U-turn—watching the Taliban face a crushing Coalition force—that must be about as stark as any in the history of foreign policy. One day the patron ...
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 |