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...erroneous, that Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and was developing nuclear arms. But the White House's rosy public projections on Iraq now may not have as friendly an ear with the senior analyst Negroponte has in place to oversee a new estimate. He's Tom Fingar, a former State Department intelligence officer, who disagreed with the old pre-war estimates that warned of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Fingar won't pull punches in assessing whether Iraq is slipping toward civil war, a congressional source says, but he'll be fair in his conclusions...
...intelligence reports and estimates Fingar has produced so far, this source says, "have been dramatically better in explaining what they know, what they don't know and what they think." Meeting with reporters in April, Fingar proudly allowed that he had been "the dissenter on a large number of things" while he was director of intelligence at the State Department. The experience of being in the minority on such hot-button reports as the pre-war estimate, Fingar said, has helped him reform the NIE drafting process. "That has informed the way in which we have approached artificial consensus...
...community, with between 80,000 and 100,000 employees at 16 agencies, more efficient. But there's no question that analytic talent is being sapped for DNI-run entities such as the NCTC, with a planned staff (including analysts and others) somewhere over 400. Negroponte's analysis chief, Tom Fingar, tells TIME he already has some 350 to 450 billets at the National Intelligence Council. (A DNI spokesperson said the actual figure is closer to 110.) The DNI has already taken some 90 analysts from the CIA. Now, he is siphoning off over two dozen more for NCTC from...
...many current and former national security officials warn that if the evolution is not handled smoothly, the changes could diminish and possibly destroy both the nation's proudest intelligence shop, the CIA, and its newest, the DNI. Indeed, one knowledgeable expert says DNI officials are already concerned that Fingar, Negroponte's top analysis deputy, risks having his influence over terrorism intelligence diminished because the DNI law says the NCTC chief, former Navy Admiral Scott Redd, does not report directly to Fingar, but to Negroponte or, on certain sensitive matters, to President Bush. A DNI spokesman denies this is a problem...