Obama and Medvedev put off tough decisions for the next summit. If they really want to reset relations, they’re going to have to work a lot harder at it in the coming months.
Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden unit, refutes the NIE’s contention that Al-Qaeda’s Iraq presence has any bearing on the group’s international planning.
In August 2001, a former chief terrorism expert at the Department of State wrote in the New York Times that the Bush Administration was obsessed with terrorism and using it to persuade the American people to build missile defenses.