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PAUL R. PILLAR
Paul R. Pillar was appointed National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia in October 2000 upon returning to the Intelligence Community from the Brookings Institution, where he was a Federal Executive Fellow.
He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1977 and has served in a variety of analytical and managerial positions, including as chief of analytic units covering portions of the Near East, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia. He previously served in the National Intelligence Center (NIC) as one of the original members of its Analytic Group.
He has been Executive Assistant to CIA's Deputy Director for Intelligence and Executive Assistant to DCI William Webster. He headed the Assessments and Information Group of the DCI Counterterrorist Center and from 1997 to 1999 was deputy chief of the center.
Pillar is a retired officer in the U.S. Army Reserve and served on active duty in 1971-1973, including a tour of duty in Vietnam.
Pillar received an A.B. summa cum laude from Dartmouth College, a B.Phil. from Oxford University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is the author of books on peace negotiations and counterterrorist policy. His most recent work, Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy, was published by the Brookings Institution Press in February 2001
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itps/1101/ijpe/pj63bios.htm
why does this entry seem like a debate on the value of his work and life, and an attempt to discredit pillar's public standing? i think that wikipedia is so concerned with attempts to not seem biased to the political left, that right-wingers have tarnished the historical and social entries. stop being scared editors, if wikipedians are upset because you don't include their revisionist histories and apologies, too bad. you have no problem preventing the left from skewing wikipedia; in the interest of science and fact, let's have a little more policing of the right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.16.224.61 (talk) 14:27, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
Is there any indication he is a VIPS member? -csloat 20:46, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
RonCram seems so intent on seeing a vast left-wing conspiracy at the CIA that he has tried to cram in every possible criticism of Pillar that he can possibly find. I want to be clear that I don't object to including valid criticism (and the only thing I deleted was something that does not belong in that section; I have no objection to including that fact elsewhere), but I don't think we should be including a quote or summary every time someone mentions Pillar on an unknown blog. I think we should stick to claims made by reputable published sources. Of course it is relevant that there are a few well-known spinmeisters (notably Stephen F. Hayes, whose distortion and cultured myopia is legendary) criticizing Pillar for speaking his mind, but let's not pretend that Pillar is the butt end of a torrent of criticism from real journalists. I've reorganized the links sections but I'm wondering if we should get rid of the blogs entirely; if not, we should include the many blogs who have mentioned Pillar without smearing him, in order to fairly represent that such criticism is not widespread. Also I would prefer if the text not read "Critics claim..." when we really mean "Stephen F. Hayes claims...". --csloat 18:57, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
csloat, the Bush Administration tried to ignore the problem with the election year book but some White House aides talked about it to reporters. Bush decided to wait until his second term to remove Tenet and then allowed him to save face by resigning, but Bush's decision was set sometime in 2004. Also, several WH people were upset with Tenet for saying the WMDs in Iraq were a slam dunk and then trying to blame the president for going too far. But the flap over the book deal really seemed to seal Tenet's fate to me. Regarding Pillar's critics, it is nonsensical to say criticism is not criticism because the critics are stupid. We need to state the facts and let the facts speak for themselves. I believe it is clear Saddam was cooperating with al-Qaeda just as it is clear the Baathists cooperated with Zarqawi later on. I also think it is easy for people to understand the "war" terminology after attacks on one day kill nearly 3,000 people. RonCram 20:13, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
The following is well sourced and clearly written:
csloat, you are deleting this passage without cause. The Wall Street Journal is clear on this criticism. I have given you the exact quotation where this comment comes from. Please explain why you are continuing to delete this entry. RonCram 20:58, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
csloat, you have reinserted the ((fact)) tag after the citation was given. You know well enough that the Wall Street Journal criticized Pillar for doing a poor job in assessing the terrorist threat. I have even quoted the exact passage for you here on the Talk page. For you to reinsert the ((fact)) when the citation is already on the page seems ridiculous to me. Do you really want me to put the same citation is multiple places? If so, I will do it but it seems cumbersome and not in the best interest of wikipedia to do so. RonCram 21:04, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I have not removed the ridiculous statement by some unknown blogger to the effect of Pillar's actions being illegal and worthy of prosecution, but I think it should be removed. If anyone would like to defend it here please do so; otherwise, it goes. I am not opposed to having published criticism from reputable sources here, but random and obviously false statements from unknown (and pseudonymous) bloggers that received absolutely no media attention in the year and a half since they wrote it do not seem encyclopedic.--csloat 23:48, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Nightline is going to report on the "Saddam Tapes."
U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has already authenticated the tapes. These are the same tapes mentioned in Duelfer's Report that had not been translated at the time of the report. For some reason, the tapes were released through a very unusual manner - possibly because some in the intelligence community did not want the truth to come out. Read news story here.
The story also reports:
The Nightline story about the tapes is important to the Pillar article because Pillar was one of the CIA cabal who did not want any intelligence tying Saddam to WMD or al-Qaeda to come out causing the tapes to come out through an unofficial path.
Read the story here. [3]RonCram 19:08, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
I removed the following but left the direct quote from the writer:
RonCram, please stop adding your opinion as fact. I will continue to remove your edits if you refuse to make NPOV edits.--Jersey Devil 15:14, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Also, this is a talk page about the article, this is not a blog or a political forum. So please do not use this talk page to advertise television programs. Thank you.--Jersey Devil 15:14, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Direct quotes are factual with regards to the article (which is why I kept his quote), what bothers me is putting down opinions as fact. For instance this quote: "Joscelyn then discusses Pillar misstatements" works as if it is already established that Pillar has made "misstatements" which is putting down opinion as fact. One other thing, we really should be working to expand the facts about Pillar's early life. He was an officer for the Army during Vietnam though, I really can't find much info on that.--Jersey Devil 00:55, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
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