Prof. Pillar accuses US administration

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in using intelligence data for their preconceived ideas to invade Iraq. Prof. Paul Pillar, who is now professor in security studies at GU, retired recently after 28 years at the CIA. He admitted that the intelligence of WMD in Iraq was probably wrong, but the administration selectively used this for their purposes for invading Iraq. Interesting enough the term "cherry picking" was used, an old bball term.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/09/AR2006020902418.html

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Pillar's stronger point seemed to be that the Administration ignored (and refused to ask for) assessments of the potential issues in post-war Iraq, about which there was a broad intelligence community consensus that very accurately predicted many of the current problems we're having.