Intelligence, Policy and the War in Iraq

February 14, 2006

Paul R. Pillar, who served as National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005, renders a devastating indictment of the Bush administration's dysfunctional relationship with the intelligence community.

This article, which appears in the March/April 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs, is available in its entirety here:

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060301faessay85202/paul-r-pillar/intelligence-policy-and-the-war-in-iraq.html


Paul R. Pillar is on the faculty of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He concluded a long career with the Central Intelligence Agency as National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005.

Posted by coalition at February 14, 2006 07:31 AM

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