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November 3, 2017

Did the Obama Administration Withhold Documents That Could Have Undermined the Iran Deal?

The American public wouldn’t want al-Qaeda’s major supporter to have nuclear weapons.

Earlier this week, the CIA made public hundreds of thousands of documents from Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound. The trove, obtained during the raid in which he was killed, contains extensive evidence of the depth of al-Qaeda’s relationship with Iran—which sheltered many of the organization’s operatives in its borders, supplied it with funds, and gave it operational support. With the publication of these documents, writes Michael Rubin, it is now clear why the Obama administration struggled so long to hide them from the public eye:

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