Former U.S. Spy Chief: White House Misused Intel

		<a href='http://ads.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a9cd87eb&cb=158750391' target='_blank'><img src='http://ads.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=1&cb=158750391&n=a9cd87eb' border='0' alt='' /></a>	February 20, 2012 Log in / Register
			Text Size

Past Events Upcoming Events

Acts of Love

OWS Calls for May Day Strike

Ideological Hypocrites

Krugman to Playboy: Economic Crisis 'Doesn't Have to Be Happening'

When Iran Talks Back

Acts of Love
By Chris Hedges

Ideological Hypocrites
By E.J. Dionne, Jr.

The Lowdown on Fracking
By Lena Groeger, ProPublica

The Best, Most Revealing Reporting on the Foreclosure Crisis
By Blair Hickman, ProPublica

OWS Calls for May Day Strike

When Iran Talks Back

Krugman to Playboy: Economic Crisis ‘Doesn’t Have to Be Happening’

Iran Could Cause Mideast Cold War, U.K. Official Warns

Syrian Troops Kill Mourner at Damascus Funeral

Gov. Christie Nixes New Jersey Gay Marriage Bill

Taking Citizens United Back to the Supreme Court

‘Left, Right & Center’: Cars, Contraception and China

Occupy Fashion Week

Putin on Trial ... Almost

Julian Assange a Part of Simpsons Milestone

Déjà Pooh
By Mr. Fish

This Gay Man Represented the President
By Mel White

Whither ‘Colbert Report’?

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Financial Meltdown 101

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

Former U.S. Spy Chief: White House Misused Intel

Posted on Feb 11, 2006

Reuters—A former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the Middle East during the Iraq invasion accused the White House of misusing prewar intelligence to justify its case for war.

Paul Pillar, who was national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005, also said the Senate intelligence committee and a presidential commission overlooked evidence that the Bush administration politicized the intelligence process to support White House policymakers. | story

Truthdig says: This is a big deal: it’s the same unnerving story we heard firsthand from Richard Clarke when he left the White House.

More Below the Ad