Jan 9th, 2010 · It's been a rough couple of weeks for U.S. spy agencies. First came the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day. President Obama says the incident was preventable, but the intelligence community failed to connect the dots. Guest host Mary Louise Kelly talks to Paul Pillar, a former CIA deputy chief.
Jan 9th, 2010 · It's been a rough couple of weeks for U.S. spy agencies. First came the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day. President Obama says the incident was preventable, but the intelligence community failed to connect the dots. Guest host Mary Louise Kelly talks to Paul Pillar, a former CIA deputy chief.
Feb 16th, 2006 · The Bush administration misused intelligence to justify decisions like going to war in Iraq, according to former senior CIA official Paul Pillar. From 2000 to 2005, Pillar was the CIA's national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia.
Feb 10th, 2006 · The former national intelligence officer for the Middle East says the Bush administration has used remarkably little intelligence analysis in making its policy decisions. Paul Pillar writes in Foreign Affairs about the relationship between the intelligence community and policymakers in the run-up to the Iraq war.