The CIA’s analysts described bin Laden at the time as an active, dangerous financier of Islamic extremism, but they considered him more a money source than a terrorist operator. To senior career officers in the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center, the TRODPINT tribal team now beckoned as a way to watch...
You could have called it morbid. Shelley didn’t get it. He should have been celebrating—his promotion had finally come through. He was going to be senior toolpusher, the person who directed the entire drilling operation on the Discoverer Spirit. His only superior on the drill floor would be the O...