The Great War of Our Time: The CIA's Fight Against Terrorism--From Al Qa'ida to ISIS (46 page)

The cover of the President’s Daily Brief, within which resides the most sensitive secrets collected by our nation.
(CIA photo)

On the morning of September 11, 2001, at Booker Elementary School. The president is on the secure telephone and White House officials point to television coverage of the attack on the World Trade Center. I am on the left.
(Photo by Eric Draper, courtesy of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum)

At President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, with Barney and Spot, January 2002.
(Official White House photo)

With CIA director General Mike Hayden and his deputy Steve Kappes in 2008. The three of us were a team running the Agency from 2006 to 2008.
(CIA photo)

With President Obama in the Oval Office on May 2, 2011, the day following the operations in which Usama bin Ladin was killed.
(Official White House photo)

Briefing the president and his senior aides on a particularly sensitive intelligence issue, July 2012.
(Official White House photo)

An Oval Office briefing for President Obama, about an operational breakthrough against a key intelligence target, July 2012.
(Official White House photo)

With Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 2013.
(Courtesy of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff)

During one of my many trips to Iraq, a visit to Saddam’s former palace, which at the time (2009) was the headquarters of coalition forces in Iraq.
(Personal photo taken by Agency officer)

On one of my many trips to Afghanistan as deputy director. A meeting with General John Allen, ISAF commander, September 2011.
(International Security Assistance Force photo)

On one of my many visits to one of our country’s most important allies. A meeting with His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan in Amman, spring 2012.
(Courtesy of the Royal Hashemite Court)

The scale model of Bin Ladin’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, built by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and used to brief senior officials. A copy of the model is now on display in a museum in CIA’s headquarters. The original is at NGA.
(CIA photo)