PROFILES
March 2002
The Man Who Was Supposed To Save Us
If only they’d listened to him, John O’Neill, FBI master counterterrorist, might have prevented the attack on the World Trade Center instead of perishing in it that day himself. Or so the story goes. The truth, like the man, is far more complicated. A tale of international espionage, multiple lives, and the first man in American intelligence to name the enemy as Osama bin Laden.
By TOM JUNOD