Crumpton

It's a slow, wasting process, Whalen told Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton.

Mortgage Crisis Is 'Cancer,''Slow Wasting Process,' Analyst Says The Huffington Post News Team 2010

It's a slow, wasting process, Whalen told Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton.

Mortgage Crisis Is 'Cancer,''Slow Wasting Process,' Analyst Says The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Crumpton recalls that Franks pushed back because of two issues: the small American “footprint” approach had already worked so well at overthrowing the Taliban, and the time it would take to get more U.S. soldiers on the ground into Tora Bora.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

Crumpton countered that taking on the al-Qaeda hard core hiding out in Tora Bora was not the same as defeating the Taliban: This was different, this was a high mountain stronghold heavily defended.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

CIA director George Tenet remembers President Bush asking Crumpton directly if the Pakistanis would seal the border, to which the CIA veteran replied, “No, sir.”

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

Like Crumpton, the Special Forces ground commander Dalton Fury had identified the central weakness in the plan at Tora Bora: there was no one to guard the back door into Pakistan.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

It's a slow, wasting process, Whalen told Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton.

Mortgage Crisis Is 'Cancer,''Slow Wasting Process,' Analyst Says The Huffington Post News Team 2010

It's a slow, wasting process, Whalen told Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton.

Mortgage Crisis Is 'Cancer,''Slow Wasting Process,' Analyst Says The Huffington Post News Team 2010

By early December Crumpton was “one hundred percent” certain that bin Laden was bottled up in the Tora Bora mountains, so he called General Tommy Franks, who had overall control of the Tora Bora operation, to request additional soldiers.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

And, as we have seen, Hank Crumpton, the CIA officer running the overall Afghan operation, had also briefed the White House and CENTCOM that this was a strong possibility.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011