Over at Foreign Policy, Amy Zegart has a short but interesting theory that the Presidential debate moderators could learn a thing or two about picking germaine foreign policy topics from the Central Intelligence Agency. ...In the 2000 election, terrorism was completely absent from all three of the debates between Al Gore and George W. Bush. The CIA warned in both its 1999 and 2000 unclassified annual threat assessments to Congress that terrorism ranked second on the list of threats to U.S. national security. That's right. Second. Just behind the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction... Check out the whole piece here at Foreign Policy.
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