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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... later proven false, broke of an event at the State Department, not far away and near my route home, across one of the bridges connecting washington to suburban Virginia across the Potomac river. Soon, as I tried to circle back to the ...
... later hold. how national security would lurch forward, from earlier decades spent warning of political unrest ten thousand miles away or developments in ballistic missile systems to the new reality. and whether a group named al Qaeda ...
... later generations, those hours and days will be not fully describable, despite book after book and countless documentaries. There is no way, now, to translate that sense of emptiness that was the byproduct of murder on such a massive ...
Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda Philip Mudd. weeks later, my small world started to draw closer to the center of the counterterrorism campaign that exploded on that day. as U.S. intelligence agents and special forces allied with anti ...
... later, but he was frail, and his role was not significant. he was never destined to play a major role in running afghanistan; he couldn't have. But those days, and those dreams of hangers-on, offer a glimpse of the myriad plans and ...
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 |