The "first" Afghan War, the CIA's war in response to 9/11,was approved by President Bush and directed by the author, Robert Grenier, theCIA station chief in Islamabad. Forging separate alliances with warlords,Taliban dissidents, and Pakistani intelligence, Grenier defeated the Talibanand put Hamid Karzai in power in eighty-eight days. Later, as head of CIAcounterterrorism, he watches as bureaucratic dysfunction in the CIA, Pentagon,and the White