When America Couldn’t Bring Back Our Girls
In 2014, three months after Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 girls from a school in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok, a photo landed on a bank of monitors in the CIA’s Abuja station, a group of sealed drop-ceiling rooms concealed behind the blast-proof walls of the United States embassy.The picture was the spy agency’s best clue in months as to the location of the Chibok girls.