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2) Countdown Bin Laden: the untold story of the 247-day hunt to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to justice
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
On August 27, 2010, three CIA officers ask for a private meeting with CIA Director Leon Panetta. During that secret session, they tell Panetta that agents have tracked a courier with deep Al Qaeda ties to a three-story house at the end of a dead-end street in Abbottabad, Pakistan. But they say it’s more than a house—it’s a heavily protected fortress. No one in the meeting says the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The former Secretary of Defense explores why bureaucratic institutions are failing and how then can be tarnsformed through effective leadership, citing the examples of large-scale change in the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defense.