Ali H. Soufan is a Lebanese-American former FBI agent who was involved in a number of high-profile anti-terrorism cases both in the United States and around the world . A '' New Yorker '' article in 2006 described Soufan as coming closer than anyone to preventing the September 11 attacks , even implying that he would have succeeded had the CIA been willing to share information with him . He resigned from the FBI in 2005 after publicly chastising the CIA for not sharing intelligence with him , which could have prevented the attacks . In 2011 , he published a memoir , which includes some historical background on al-Qaeda : '' The Black Banners : The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda '' . In 2017 , he published '' Anatomy of Terror : From the Death of Bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State '' . He is the CEO of The Soufan Group and founder of The Soufan Center “ a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving as a resource and forum for research , analysis , and strategic dialogue related to global security issues and emergent threats . ” Ali Soufan is also a Phi Kappa Theta alumnus , recently winning the Kennedy award in 2018
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Ali Soufan