Senior C.I.A. Officer Condemns Bush Administration

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Ex-C.I.A. official, Paul Pillar was the national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005. Pillar has recently written an article about the Bush administration's justification for the war in Iraq for the upcoming issue of the journal Foreign Affairs. In the article, Pillar said, the Bush administration "went to war without requesting and evidently without being influenced by any strategic-level intelligence assessments on any aspect of Iraq." He also wrote that, "It has become clear that official intelligence was not relied on in making any decisions pertaining to Iraq.