Growing Evidence of Long-Term Iraqi, Iranian and Other Islamist Cooperation in Attacks on US Targets
Book Review: The Third Terrorist 
Defense & Foreign Affairs Policy Magazine / June 2004
Gregory R. Copley
Editor

Evidence continues to mount of how effectively the former US Administration of Pres. William Clinton misdirected key elements of the US intelligence community (IC) for political purposes. What is becoming increasingly clear, however, is the fact that this distortion of the IC for such purposes left a legacy which contributed directly to the environment which allowed the successful terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, and to subsequent failures by the IC in effectively assessing ongoing terrorist threats. 

Only belatedly are elements of the overall picture becoming clear in such a way that they may, even now, be of importance in reassessing the overall threat environment facing the US and the West. Given the fact that so many careers in the US IC were forced along politically-directed paths, it is surprising that Jayna Davis outstandingly-researched book, The Third Terrorist: the Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing, was even published.

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