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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... understand all the angles. like many of us who have left, I do not believe I will ever go back. But it was a heckuva ride along the way. ChapTer 1 the 9/11 afterMath The eISenhOwer executive Office Building xvi preface.
... understand and explain to policymakers how events overseas might affect the United States, but none of us could have ... understanding this adversary that day. But no one would have believed the scenario that unfolded with enough ...
... understanding ofwhat the 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 ...
... understanding washington at senior levels, having the connections, confidence, and authority to pull levers, experiencing how other broken states grew out of disarray, we radically underestimated Dobbins's prospects and the power of his ...
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 |