Ex-Analyst Tells a Tale of Twisted Iraq Intelligence

Paul Pillar lived through the quirks of the Reagan administration, when Soviet bogeymen were thought to lurk behind most Third World uprisings.Yet in nearly 28 years as a CIA uber-analyst, he says he never saw the kind of politicking with raw intelligence as under President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

In the lead-up to war in Iraq, a stream of questions and data requests were coming out of the vice president's office, and out of other offices at the White House and Pentagon, said Pillar.

But they weren't for just the facts, please.