Thursday, March 23, 2006
Another CIA Attack on Bush
So, why is the media so trusting of Paul Pillar?...
From Paul Aronoff at Accuracy in Media:
"In the face of all of this comes Paul Pillar, another disgruntled former CIA official. According to Guillermo Christensen, writing in the Wall Street Journal, 'it is hard to think of anyone in the government who was more directly involved in reaching the wrong conclusions about what was going on in Iraq than Mr. Pillar himself.'"
"Christensen was a CIA intelligence officer for 15 years, and is currently with the Council on Foreign Relations. He says Pillar was in the best position of anyone to draft a National Intelligence Estimate, 'recording for all what was going on in Iraq.' He says Pillar has a political agenda, against this administration, and 'made no bones about it in discussions with think-tank audiences long before he left the agency.' He accuses Pillar of 'violating his confidences' and causing damage to the CIA. 'For a CIA officer to discard this neutral role and to inject himself in the political realm is plain wrong,' wrote Christensen. 'It will end up making the CIA even less relevant than it is today, if that is possible.'"
