In January 2000, the National Security Council directed the CIA to locate and track Osama bin Laden, in a possible prelude to a military strike. In the risk-averse world before Sept. 11, 2001, neither the Pentagon nor the CIA?s leadership could countenance allowing even limited forces in northern Afghanistan or neighboring countries to carry out the directive. At the time, Henry A. Crumpton was responsible for the CIA?s global counter-terrorism operations, and he and a small group of other officials pushed ?a reluctant and even suspicious interagency bureaucracy? toward the position that unmanned aerial vehicles ? drones ? could provide a solution.
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