‘Intellectual Dishonesty’: Reporter Challenges Administration for Saying Taliban Wants Peace

 For weeks, the State Department has been repeating the claim that the Taliban cares about international legitimacy and shares other parties’ interests in a “durable” peace. But amid charges that the terrorist group may be committing war crimes as it seizes territory, a reporter at the department’s daily briefing on Wednesday said the assertions were “getting to the point of intellectual dishonesty.” Read