Former CIA Pillar Says White
House Misused Iraq Intelligence
Fri Feb 10, 2006 17:49
Former CIA Pillar Says White House Misused Iraq Intelligence
Respected 28-year CIA intelligence analyst Paul Pillar has accused the Bush administration of selectively gathering, interpretting, and presenting intelligence ...
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Former CIA Pillar Says White House Misused Iraq Intelligence
Respected 28-year CIA intelligence analyst Paul Pillar has accused the Bush administration of selectively gathering, interpreting, and presenting intelligence related to Iraq. He has also criticized the investigation of such allegations in the past.
"...the method of investigation used by the panels...would have caught only the crudest attempts at politicization," he wrote. Pillar left the CIA, who responded that these are his own personal views and not the official agency position, in 2005.
Pillar accuses US leaders of "cherry-picking" intelligence on WMDs, Al-Queda, guerilla resistance, and the applicability of democracy in Iraq. He says that the intelligence community's policy, if any, was to avoid war or prepare for a messy aftermath
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US 'selected' Iraq intelligence
Paul Pillar writes in the Foreign Affairs journal that the White House used the intelligence to justify a decision it had already reached. ...
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Intelligence, Policy, and the War in Iraq
by Paul R. Pillar
A special Web preview from the March/April 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs.
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Paul Piller... Appeared with Wolf on CNN's Situation Room
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