Ah, Conventional Wisdom. If there's one thing Washington loves it's CW. That's because if you subscribe to CW, you don't have to think very hard which for both politicians and pundits, is a state of being much to be desired. There's only one problem with conventional wisdom; it is often wrong. Take the CW that states Iran will never, ever, ever, never work with al-Qaeda because as all the smart people know, Iran is a Shia Muslim country while al-Qaeda is a Sunni Muslim terrorist group. Not so fast, says the latest National Intelligence Estimate out of Washington: One of two known Al Qaeda leadership councils meets regularly in eastern Iran, where the American intelligence community believes dozens of senior Al Qaeda leaders have reconstituted a good part of the terror conglomerate's senior leadership structure. That is a consensus judgment from a final working draft of a new National Intelligence Estimate, titled "The Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland," on the...(Read Full Post)