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Many of the questions that Kerr raises are handled with much greater clarity in the fourth section of Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq in an excellent piece on the use of intelligence by James E Pfiffner, and in former National Intelligence Officer Paul Pillar's piece on the "dysfunctional relationship" between policy and intelligence in the prewar period.

Lavoy, currently the national intelligence officer for South Asia on the Council, according to the official, who requested anonymity because the changes have not yet been publicly announced.

Al Qaeda "remains the most serious terrorist threat to the United States," former CIA officer Ted Gistaro, the US national intelligence officer for transnational threats, declared.

He served as a National Intelligence officer and as director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis.

He continued that Fingar and one of his co-authors, Vann Van Diepen, national intelligence officer for weapons of mass destruction, had opposed the war in Iraq.

But senior US intelligence officials, including Paul Pillar, the national intelligence officer responsible for the Near East and South Asia, have increasingly turned their focus to the challenges posed by organisations similar to al-Qaeda, whose attacks in places like Sharm el-Shaikh, smaller and more manageable than those of 9/11, are inflicting a powerful cumulative effect.

Wettering worked in the CIA's directorate of operations and for a time was National Intelligence Officer for Africa.

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