The former National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia explains how the pre-war situation with Iraq went so wrong.

During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, writes the intelligence community's former senior analyst for the Middle East, the Bush administration disregarded the community's expertise, politicized the intelligence process, and selected unrepresentative raw intelligence to make its public case.

Intelligence, Policy,and the War in Iraq - Paul R. Pillar