A summary of Pillar's [former National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia Paul Pillar] important, controversial article, "Intelligence, Policy and the War in Iraq" in the March/April 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs:Isn't that celebrity dance show on tonight?During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, writes the intelligence community's former senior analyst for the Middle East, the Bush administration disregarded the community's expertise, politicized the intelligence process, and selected unrepresentative raw intelligence to make its public case.
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