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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... land out there. So in the midst of a dusty Third world town, many thousands of miles from home, I sat down with one ofthe Diplomatic Security officers on the detail. after fewer than ten questions, it was clear: 10 chapter 1.
... questions, it was clear: not only did he have land in the same area, but he had a piece of the same farmland I had bought, and we shared a property line. we were neighbors, meeting for the first time halfway around the world. Both with ...
... questions about security, but, to a person, the team was enthusiastic about a trip. Dobbins told the team that he ... question: who's the analyst calling for air support? Mclaughlin filled him in, and I never knew of these exchanges at ...
... questions that loomed around us. The Soviets had been hounded out of afghanistan by a tenacious afghan opposition. But we were now here, with the southern capital of Qandahar still in Taliban hands, talking about steps forward for a new ...
... questions about how to divide the “power” ministries to provide balance. Talk about confusing diplomacy, with a timetable for success that was measured only in days and weeks. Our team went to Bonn with Dobbins, shuttling up to a castle ...
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 |