Only 17 carefully selected documents have been publicly released thus Congressional leaders have called for a more complete release. The documents present a far more complicated picture of al Qaeda than the one advanced by Obama. In the months after bin Laden’s death and throughout the 2012 presidential campaign.
According to Congressional sources: among the revelations: bin Laden kept careful tabs on his affiliates and
helped plan attacks from the compound in Abbottabad; the strong ties
between al Qaeda central (AQC) and Pakistan’s Directorate for
Inter-service Intelligence (ISI) were perhaps deeper than many analysts
had imagined; senior Iranian officials cultivated the on-again,
off-again relationship between AQC and the Iranian regime; al Qaeda
central and the Taliban in Afghanistan were far closer than the
administration, interested in jump-starting negotiations with the
Taliban, let on.
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