Walter Pincus leads off with yet another story from an Ex—CIA official whining about the Administration not taking the professionals' sage advice.  This time, the whiner is Paul R.Pillar: "The former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the Middle East until last year has accused the Bush administration of 'cherry—picking' intelligence on Iraq to justify a decision it had already reached to go to war, and of ignoring warnings that the country could easily fall into violence and chaos after an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein." Pillar was the top analyst at the CounterTerrorismCenter for most of the 1990s.  In April 2001, he published a book, Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy (published by the Brookings Institution). In this book he argued that weapons of mass destruction were less likely to pose a threat than more conventional threats, that terrorism would not ever go away, and that we should work instead to contain it. He...(Read Full Post)