John was the first to put in writing last summer that the CIA might have a genuine lead on finding bin Laden. He oversaw the team that joined the dots that led the agency to bin Laden’s fortified compound in Abbottabad.
For nearly a decade, John’s principal job was to find bin Laden. A former Russia and Balkans specialist, he wrote what was viewed as the definitive profile of Vladimir Putin before shifting his focus to al-Qaeda.
He is said to have been one of the driving forces behind a string of captures of prominent al-Qaeda figures, including Abu Zubaydah, Abd al-Nashiri, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi bin Alshib, Hambali and Faraj al-Libi, and advocated increasing the number of drone strikes in Pakistan.
The CIA offered to promote John and move him to another role but the analyst was adamant that he should remain in his post until bin Laden was located.
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