Takedown
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TakedownInside the Hunt for Al QaedaPhilip MuddA riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the world of counterterrorism. Mudd has been at the heart of the chase for the worlds most dangerous people and makes us feel we are there with him.--Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast/NewsweekTakedown is a must read for anyone who needs to understand terrorism, intelligence or the inner workings of the governments national security apparatus--John Miller, Senior Correspondent at CBS NewsPhilip Mudd is an intelligence officer whose analysis is rarely wrong, and a public servant whose moral compass is always right. Mudd has the unique ability to not only find meaning out of chaos, but also the ability to clearly pass on that information to the policy makers who need it.--George J. Tenet, Former Director of Central IntelligenceThis gripping narrative effectively conveys the breadth of the challenges confronted by counterterrorism analysis. Philip Mudds perspective--that of someone who sought to understand the unintelligible--is a valuable addition to extant histories of 9/11 and what followed.--Richard H. Immerman, Temple UniversityOn 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. governments effort to support the fledging government there after U.S. forces had toppled the Taliban. Later, Mudd would be appointed deputy director of the CIAs rapidly expanding Counterterrorist Center and then senior intelligence adviser at t
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