This US intel analyst was the first to warn the US about al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. 'Gina Bennett wanted policymakers and the intel community to pay attention to this phenomenon, but she knew it would be difficult,' Peter Bergen writes | CNNOpinion
Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. This is adapted from his new book,"The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden," published by Simon & Schuster on August 3. The opinions expressed here are his own. Read more opinion at CNN.
Just one week out of the University of Virginia, with a degree in economics and foreign policy, Gina Bennett started working at the State Department as a clerk-typist in June 1988. After a couple of months, Bennett's boss told her,"Gina, you don't belong here. I'm going to promote you so you can get a job as an intelligence analyst."
Today, 33 years later, as the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Bennett is a member of the CIA's Senior Analytic Service working as senior counterterrorism adviser at the National Counterterrorism Center. No one in the US government has tracked al Qaeda and all its many branches and offshoots for as long and with as much distinction as Bennett has.
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