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the White House came under unprecedented attack from a top former CIA official for its misuse of intelligence to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The accusations by Paul Pillar, the intelligence agency's top Middle East specialist until he resigned in 2005, are not in themselves new. Never before however has so senior a CIA official so bluntly charged that the Bush White House had made up its mind to attack Iraq long beforehand, and was only interested in intelligence that supported that decision.