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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... sense to stay on at the national Security Council now that the new counterterror campaign would require so many people to take new positions. Despite not having cleared my departure with my colleagues at the white house, not having met ...
... sense of where we might find ourselves even a month out. and then there was the task of finding the foundations ofa new afghan political authority, which might take many months, with prospects of success that would never get near fifty ...
... sense of history unfolding then was almost palpable, knowing that what we were seeing would help decide the future of the country that was the focus of attention for people around the world. Much of the initial work Dobbins requested ...
... sense to pay homage to that remaining leadership, or at the very least to avoid alienating them, and Dobbins wanted ... senses: it is as if the face of the earth is corduroy, with row after row ofjagged snow-capped peaks followed by deep ...
... sense of reliving Vietnam, predicting that the United States was in for the same treatment the Soviets had received. Sitting there, with one ofthe leading figures responsible for the ouster ofthe Soviets, I was concerned about this as ...
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 |