Charlie Black, in an interview with Fortune, said “a fresh terrorist attack ‘certainly would be a big advantage to him [John McCain].'” Black also “said that the December assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, while ‘unfortunate,’ helped McCain win the Republican primary by focusing attention on national security.”
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