Reality-Based Intel Analyst Leaving
Pam Hess, the Associated Press’ intelligence correspondent, reports that Tom Fingar, the intelligence community’s chief analyst, is on his way out of
Jul 31, 20204.5K Shares563.3K Views
Pam Hess, the Associated Press’ intelligence correspondent, reports that Tom Fingar, the intelligence community’s chief analyst, is on his way out of government. That’s a shame. Everyone I ever talked to in the intelligence world had a ton of respect for Fingar and considered him a top-notch analyst, entirely wedded to the facts as he could determine them. Unsurprisingly, he emerged from the State Dept.’s intelligence directorate, a shop that punches above its weight — as Justin Rood documented long ago— and was the only element of the intelligence community to correctly assess that Saddam Hussein didn’t have an operative nuclear weapons program in 2002.
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