Christopher Preble is co-director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security's New American Engagement Initiative, and the co-editor, with Benjamin Friedman and Jim Harper of Terrorizing Ourselves: Why U.S. Counterterrorism Policy is Failing and How to Fix It.
Could the CIA and FBI Have Stopped 9/11?
We may have misinterpreted 9/11 as a harbinger, when it was really just an outlier.