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Former CIA officer pessimistic about Iraq war.(Paul Pillar)(Brief article)
"This is a civil war on top of an insurgency on top of conflicts. There is no one simple split between side A and side B. There are numerous sub-groups and splinter groups that make it ...
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...source of information, Iranian ex-pats and dissidents. Paul Pillar, the CIA's former top analyst for the Middle East, agrees...the CIA always tries to milk exiles for intelligence. Mr. PAUL PILLAR (Former Middle East Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency...
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...politics, particularly their warnings of the challenges Washington would face if it invaded Iraq. Last February, for example, Paul Pillar, the intelligence community's top Middle East analyst from 2000 until his retirement in late 2005, disclosed in Foreign...
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...ignoring threats by groups that have engaged in terrorism is generally thought not to be an acceptable policy." According to Paul Pillar, a former deputy director of the Counterterrorism Center, its practice is to "disseminate to all of the relevant departments...
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...should not be moralized into a fight to the death, as with Hitler's Germany. This view was well expressed by the CIA's Paul Pillar, currently on the CIA's National Intelligence Council and the author of the recent pessimistic National Intelligence Estimate...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times February 22, 2006 700+ words
...Hubris,' and former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and his ex-CIA wife, Valerie Plame. The latest offering comes from Paul Pillar, a former CIA deputy counterterrorism chief, in the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs. "But Pillar, while rehashing...
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