CIA analyst on al Qaeda

Follow-up on my Nov. 3 entry, The Post-Election Hangover, below:

What does Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit, have to say about how al Qaeda metastasized into a global Islamic insurgency?

"'Evolving Nature of Al Qaeda Is Misunderstood, Critic Says," New York Times, Nov. 8, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/08/politics/08intel.html

Scheuer was also interviewed on CBS's "60 Minutes" for the November 14 broadcast.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/12/60minutes/main655407.shtml

A letter by Scheuer to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will be published in the December issue of Atlantic Monthly.

And his book, Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, is available at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1574888498/102-7684585-7808968?v=glance

On "60 Minutes," Scheuer criticized the leadership of Richard Clarke, former Bush administration counter-terrorism advisor, and that of former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet. In Clarke's own "60 Minutes" interview in March, however, he also slammed the Bush administration's conduct of its "war on terrorism":
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtml