Philip Mudd

Philip Mudd was a senior executive at the CIA and the FBI. He resigned from government in 2010. He is now the director of enterprise risk at SouthernSun Asset Management.

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Senate Showdown

The CIA’s Hindsight Problem

It’s easy make judgments about the agency’s post- 9/11 decisions here in the relative clarity of 2014. But the unknown was terrifying then.

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War on Terror

The Guantanamo Exception

Violent criminals in America have shockingly high rates of recidivism. So do terrorists. Why does the legal system treat them so differently?

Philip Mudd

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War

In Defense of Drones

New reports peg civilian losses higher than we ever knew. But targeted killings work, writes a former CIA deputy director—and the alternatives can be much worse.

Philip Mudd

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COUNTERTERRORISM

Algeria: al Qaeda’s Dying Gasp

Ex–CIA counterterrorism official Philip Mudd on why Algeria’s terrorist attack shows a jihadist movement on the wane.

Philip Mudd

Stealth

The Limits of Drone Warfare

Ex-CIA official Philip Mudd on the moral questions about drone use—and the next targets we might train them on.

Philip Mudd