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Π.χ. Senior C.I.A. Officer Condemns Bush Administration
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.
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CIA officer named prior to column
The identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame was compromised twice before her name appeared in a news column that triggered a federal illegal-disclosure investigation, U.S. officials say.
Mrs. Plame's identity as an undercover CIA officer was first disclosed to Russia in the mid-1990s by a Moscow spy, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.