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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... white house, across the avenue inside the white house complex that passes by the permanent TV stands where commentators on the nightly news can report with the white house residence and the west wing as a backdrop. “Old eOB,” as it is ...
... white house next door, and the lack of hard information meant that we could only speculate during the moments before evacuation. The mundane thought crossed my mind, during those first frenzied 2 chapter 1.
... white house grounds, and cars clogged the tight streets. There was a pervasive sense that an event of unimaginable ... white house grounds and the Old eOB appeared to be off-limits, even for staff. Security in SwaT gear were everywhere ...
... white house compound. It is as if the overwhelming magnitude of that first day erased the memories of the next. There was, clearly, a small cadre of staff at the white house working on how to respond. But I was not part of that group ...
... white house, not having met Dobbins, and not knowing anything about what his mission might entail, I wanted to be on his team. This was weeks after thousands had been murdered, and any officer in any government service would feel a need ...
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 |