AUTHOR'S NOTE | GLOSSARY (pdf) | KEY PLAYERS (pdf) | JAWBREAKER IN THE MEDIA

NEWSWEEK, August 15, 2005 Issue.

...But in a forthcoming book, the CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members... Read More»

CNN.com

...The CIA is squelching publication of a new book detailing events leading up to Osama bin Laden's escape from his Tora Bora mountain stronghold during the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, says a former CIA officer who led much of the fighting... Read More»

MSNBC

...Berntsen claims in a federal court lawsuit that the CIA is over-classifying his manuscript and has repeatedly missed deadlines written into its own regulations to review his book... Read More»

Government Executive Magazine Online

...A former senior CIA officer asked a federal court for a second time Wednesday to expedite a lawsuit he filed against the CIA earlier this year, charging that the agency is hampering publication of his forthcoming controversial memoir by failing to abide by its own publication review rules... Read More»