Trump's planned Camp David retreat with the Taliban draws flak from all sides

WASHINGTON - Did the Taliban ever intend to come to Camp David this weekend, as President Trump claimed?

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo insisted Sunday that the president had called off secretly planned talks at the presidential retreat in Maryland with leaders of the Afghan militant group that sheltered Osama bin Laden as he masterminded the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, and that has fought U.S. forces ever since.

But the Taliban disputed that, saying its leaders had refused to come until the United States had signed an agreement hammered out by