Michael Scheuer: The Enigma At Alec Station

In 1996 David Cohen, CIA Directorate of Operations, began a new unit at the CIA's CTC called "Bin Laden Issue Station" (also known later as Alec Station), he tasked Michael Scheuer, the head of the Islamic Extremist Branch of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center. However, Scheuer quickly gained an "uncompromising" and "aggressive" reputation even from his superiors at the CIA, and refused to work with other agencies tasked to Alec Station. Information that was sent to the virtual station was hardly ever shared even within their own unit, let alone the FBI or even the NSA. By 1999, Scheuer would be replaced with Richard Blee, after many in the CIA CTC feared Scheuer would create a faction which would compromise the unit. However under Blee, the FBI fared absolutely no better.