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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... the Old eOB appeared to be off-limits, even for staff. Security in SwaT gear were everywhere. a coworker and I, a colleague from the white house, found our way to her car and left an underground parking 3 the 9/11 aftermath.
... staff at the white house working on how to respond. But I was not part of that group, and those of us outside that circle did not have an understanding ofwhat the president and his advisers were contemplating. It seemed apparent that ...
... staff stayed at a hotel down the hill, driving up daily through the german forest to the castle, trading the few day passes each diplomatic group received and milling around among the participants, asking questions and taking the ...
... staff who worked all day, every day. The mission demanded it—the war was still on, hot and heavy—and the conditions didn't exactly provide a lot of alternate entertainment, beyond books and shipped-in DVDs. It was around the days of ...
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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 |