If you checked out yesterday’s Worldwide Threat briefing, you could be forgiven for checking your calendar to see if it was still September 10, 2001. Discussing al-Qaeda, John McConnell, the new director of national intelligence, described a metastasizing threat coming from… the lawless Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=181412