Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
By Mark Sharoff In November, 2001, in a briefing with CIA Director George Tenet and NSA Director Condoleeza Rice, Vice President Cheney articulated what in years following would become the “One-Percent Doctrine,” the Bush administration’s approach to threats of “low-probability, high-impact” terrorism. The doctrine holds that if there is, in Ron Suskind’s words, “ a […]
by Jason Kumar Late last month, Admiral Mike Mullen denounced Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) for working with a known terrorist group, the Haqqani network, by giving it shelter and funding in a campaign to undermine American forces in Afghanistan. Other voices quickly echoed his. Both President Obama and President Karzai more recently expressed disapproval with […]