CIA deputy director wrongly claims the Taliban is combatting Al Qaeda

All evidence points to the contrary. The Taliban has helped Al Qaeda build its infrastructure after the US withdrawal. Deputy Director Cohen is either ignorant of the facts or politically compromised.

In the latest effort by US officials to simp for the Taliban, David Cohen, the deputy director of the CIA, claims the Taliban has “taken on the effort to combat” Al Qaeda. Cohen is wrong, of course, as there have been exactly zero reported Taliban operations targeting Al Qaeda’s network in Afghanistan. In fact, all available evidence shows that the Tali…