Rand Beers worked in counter-terrorism in the administrations of four different U.S. presidents (he quit Dubya's over differences on Iraq). Democracy Now! talked to him about the controversy over the Condi Rice/George Tenet meeting over a looming threat of a terror attack on the United States itself.

An AP story out of Afghanistan has 17 militants captured there by Afghan intelligence saying they trained in Pakistan for suicide bombing missions in Afghanistan.