Takedown
Subtitle: inside the hunt for Al Qaeda
By: Philip Mudd
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780812244960
Subjects: Qaida (Organization); Intelligence officers; Officials and employees; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; United States; Terrorism; Prevention; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Government policy; Biography
Description: On 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The 9/11 aftermath; title: A return to Langley; title: The spreading threat: moving beyond the core of the Al Qaeda; title: The Second War: the intelligence problem of Iraq; title: A new view at CIA: Deputy Director of the counterterrorist center; title: The years of threat; title: Watching threats at home: the FBI calls; title: One more transfer: intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security.