It’s time to focus our priorities on what our intelligence professionals believe is the greatest threat we face – the terrorist safe havens on the borderlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan. We must use the full power of our military and intelligence services to capture or kill those who attacked us on 9/11, while pursuing a smarter policy that counters Al Qaeda propaganda and reduces its ability to recruit new adherents from around the Muslim world. Instead of focusing on our greatest threat, the Bush Administration invaded Iraq, and to this day continues to squander America’s resources on the wrong fight.
Report
19 August 2008
The bi-annual terrorism survey by the Center for American Progress and Foreign Policy magazine shows that experts agree that more emphasis needs to be placed on fighting terrorism and that withdrawing from Iraq would help the U.S. in the fight against terrorism.
Report
14 August 2008
Reports indicate that violent extremists are shifting their focus from Iraq to the forgotten front in Afghanistan. Not only are foreign fighters pouring into the region by the hundreds, but many are veterans from Iraq who are now applying the skills and tactics they learned there to plan strikes against allied forces and orchestrate broader attacks on Western targets.
Report
6 August 2008
Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver, was convicted on a charge of material assistance to terrorism and acquitted of the charge of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts. The Bush administration’s military commissions have not only violated our basic values and traditions; almost seven years after the 9/11 attacks, they have failed to bring terrorists to justice while damaging the credibility of our justice system and our democracy in the eyes of the world.
Report
28 July 2008
This weekend saw a spate of violence, with terrorist attacks in Iraq, Turkey and India. These attacks remind us of the terrible appeal of nationalism and extremism.
Press Release
Washington, D.C. 27 May 2008
In reaction to John McCain's speech this morning on his views on nuclear proliferation and greater strategy for Asia, National Security Network compiled the following reactions from experts who agree that the speech and his overall outlook are misguided and return to the failed policies of the past:
Report
18 April 2008
Five new reports from various government agencies and independent organizations were released this week, all confirming that the Bush Administration has weakened the security of the United States.
Report
20 March 2008
John McCain on several occasions recently has asserted that Iran and Al Qaeda are working together, including last month in Houston Texas . The facts are much more complicated.
Press Release
Washington, D.C. 25 February 2008
Yesterday, four former senior level intelligence officials, all of whom have worked with Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell in the past, sent a letter to McConnell seeking clarification on statements both he and President Bush have made during the recent debate over FISA and telecom immunity.
Report
29 January 2008
Three years after the President's second inaugural address, the United States urgently needs a change of course, back toward the best of our democratic principles and away from disaster.
Report
14 November 2007
The simplistic term “Islamofascism,” which is consistently used by conservatives, undermines America’s national security.
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