Paul Pillar's Foreign Affairs

Another former administration official breaks ranks. Paul Pillar, a former CIA official, in an issue of Foreign Affairs accuses the Bush administration of something that so many have said all along: The administration used intelligence not to inform decision-making, but to justify a decision already made.

Anyone who thinks that this administration can be trusted to not illegally, electronically eavesdrop on your conversations with your Aunt Sadie, as VP Cheney patronizingly tells us, must also still leave cookies our for Santa Claus. It can and will be used on political opponents and critics as well as the press and anybody else they damn well please to listen to. How anyone, at this point, could still think that this administration cares anything about anyone other than itself and its friends is beyond me. If they do, it would be easy for me to guess where their heads have been since 2000.