Jeff Stein reports:
As we reported last night, DHS intelligence chiefs were expected to take some heat Wednesday morning at a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing, chaired by Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.).
But the hearing had hardly opened before
Yesterday we broke the story of how Philip Mudd, the well-respected FBI/CIA al-Qaeda and terrorism analyst, quietly retired from government service. Today the New America Foundation, a D.C. think-tank, announces that Mudd will be joining its team as “a senior research fellow specializing in the Middle East and counterterrorism.”
Philip Mudd, one of the intelligence community’s leading al-Qaeda analysts, has quietly retired from the FBI, where he was associate executive director of the National Security Branch. Mudd confirmed in an email that he left “about six weeks ago,” but didn’t immediately respond to additional questions about his departure.
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Over the weekend, The Washington Post had this telling account about how Philip Mudd’s nomination to be Homeland Security undersecretary for intelligence unraveled:
Over the Memorial Day recess, Mudd met with senior staff members of the Homeland Security panel whose interest was primarily how he would handle issues of
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