Steve Coll

February 15th, 2018 - Town Hall- Steve Coll- The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, in cooperation (and sometimes opposition) with Pakistani intelligence agency I.S.I.. While the U.S. was trying to quell extremists, a highly secretive and compartmentalized wing of the I.S.I. known as “Directorate S” was covertly training, arming, and seeking to legitimize the Taliban. In his book Directorate S, journalist Steve Coll makes painfully clear that the United States doomed the war in Afghanistan—and set our country on a collision course with Pakistan—with of our failure to apprehend this faction’s motivations and intentions. Photo by: Winston O'Neil

February 15th, 2018 - Town Hall- Steve Coll- The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, in cooperation (and sometimes opposition) with Pakistani intelligence agency I.S.I.. While the U.S. was trying to quell extremists, a highly secretive and compartmentalized wing of the I.S.I. known as “Directorate S” was covertly training, arming, and seeking to legitimize the Taliban. In his book Directorate S, journalist Steve Coll makes painfully clear that the United States doomed the war in Afghanistan—and set our country on a collision course with Pakistan—with of our failure to apprehend this faction’s motivations and intentions. Photo by: Winston O'Neil

February 15th, 2018 - Town Hall- Steve Coll- The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan Prior to 9/11, the United States had been carrying out small-scale covert operations in Afghanistan, in cooperation (and sometimes opposition) with Pakistani intelligence agency I.S.I.. While the U.S. was trying to quell extremists, a highly secretive and compartmentalized wing of the I.S.I. known as “Directorate S” was covertly training, arming, and seeking to legitimize the Taliban. In his book Directorate S, journalist Steve Coll makes painfully clear that the United States doomed the war in Afghanistan—and set our country on a collision course with Pakistan—with of our failure to apprehend this faction’s motivations and intentions. Photo by: Winston O'Neil