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...understand the pre-war doctrine. I don't necessary agree with it, but I understand the concept. But, when you go out on the offensive like that, I don't understand not having a defense. It's like having a soccer team with no fullbacks. You need to secure the homeland, particularly if you are going to go start wars in foreign countries. We have destabilized the world with our foreign policy in Iraq. I don't understand with the millions of dollars we've poured into Iraq and the state that it's in right now, why we couldn...
...knows the weaknesses in U.S. intelligence about Iran better than Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte. He told TIME in April that U.S. intelligence on Iran is "solid" - implying, in part, that it's better than the pre-war Iraq intelligence because he knows key elements are missing from what the U.S. needs to know. "What we've got is good, but I think we also know what we don't know. And we know what the gaps are," Negroponte said. "What we've tried to improve since the WMD fiasco is building the safeguards" to avoid another fiasco...
...Senate-requested NIEs, like the one done on pre-war intelligence, have already become points of controversy, especially for former CIA Director George Tenet. Critics have charged the one he oversaw was slanted to bolster Administration claims, later proved erroneous, that Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and was developing nuclear arms. But the White House's rosy public projections on Iraq now may not have as friendly an ear with the senior analyst Negroponte has in place to oversee a new estimate. He's Tom Fingar, a former State Department intelligence officer, who disagreed with...
...know and what they think." Meeting with reporters in April, Fingar proudly allowed that he had been "the dissenter on a large number of things" while he was director of intelligence at the State Department. The experience of being in the minority on such hot-button reports as the pre-war estimate, Fingar said, has helped him reform the NIE drafting process. "That has informed the way in which we have approached artificial consensus or premature consensus," said Fingar, now the Deputy DNI for Analysis...
...rest of post-war America, such as large increases in the cost of living, according to Keller. He says these economic changes made the financial climate in which Harvard found itself during the class of 1956’s time at the College very different from the pre-war years. “It was a different world,” he says. —Staff writer Matthew S. Lebowitz can be reached at mslebow@fas.harvard.edu...