Intel Wars (43 page)
Authors: Matthew M. Aid
President Barack Obama and senior staff attend a briefing in the White House Situation Room. (Courtesy of the White House.)
Stills from a Taliban propaganda video aired on the Al-Emera network showing insurgents en route to an attack on a United States Army outpost in Nuristan Province in 2009, as well as an arsenal of RPGs. The title card reads “Foreign Press Center of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.”
A U.S. Air Force MQ-1B Predator unmanned drone taxis down the runway on October 13, 2008, at Ali Air Base, Iraq. (Photo by Senior Airman Christopher Griffin, courtesy of United States Air Force.)
The tracking device that college student Yasir Afifi found mounted on the undercarriage of his car in October 2010, later reclaimed by FBI agents. (Photo courtesy of Flickr user floorsixtyfour, used under a Creative Commons license.)
Matthew M. Aid is a leading intelligence historian and visiting fellow at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C. His
The Secret Sentry
has been hailed as the definitive history of the National Security Agency. He is a regular commentator on intelligence matters for the
New York Times
, the
Financial Times
, the Associated Press, CBS News, NPR, and many other media outlets. He lives in Washington, D.C.
The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency
Copyright © 2012 by Matthew M. Aid
Electronic edition published in January 2012
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Aid, Matthew M., 1958â
Intel wars : the secret history of the fight against terror / Matthew M. Aid.â1st U.S. ed.
p.   cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60819-499-5 (ebook)
1. TerrorismâPreventionâGovernment policyâUnited StatesâHistory.  2. Intelligence serviceâUnited StatesâHistory.  I. Title.
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