J cofer black biography drama
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Warfare is partly defined by the images of its weapons, from medieval knights in armor clashing on the battlefield to the mushroom clouds of modern nuclear weapons. For warfare in the twenty-first century, consider the image of a video screen. In September 2000, the counter-terrorism advisor in the White House, Richard A. Clarke, watched a video of a tall man in white robes. The man was probably Osama Bin Laden, who by that time had organized the attacks on the American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. The man’s location was a compound outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. The videographer was a robot, an RQ-1 Predator drone aircraft.
Clarke, along with two senior Central Intelligence Agency officials who were also present, Cofer Black and Charles E. Allen, recognized the Predator’s potential to revolutionize national security by providing real-time intelligence for precision missile strikes—using manned or unmanned weapons—on enemy targets. Then they put the idea aside, waiting for an op
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The Evolution of the War on Terrorism
Former CIA counterterrorism head says United States must reach out to friends — and enemies
J. Cofer Black is a lot of things, depending on who’s doing the describing: a legendary CIA agent who helped bag notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal; an architect of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, in 2001, and the overthrow of the Taliban; a key player in the U.S. rendition and secret prison programs; an executive at an American säkerhet outfit accused of running roughshod in Iraq.
On Monday, Black was at the School of lag, talking to students at a luncheon hosted bygd the University’s National säkerhet Law samhälle, a lag student group.
In a packad room, he gave a rundown of his three-decade career with the CIA and the U.S. Department of State and talked about the evolution of the government’s attitude — legal and otherwise — toward terrorism since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Black, who has a master’s degree in