Debriefing the President

After identifying the captured Saddam Hussein during the Iraqi invasion in 2003, chief analyst John Nixon was chosen to be his long-term interrogator for the U.S. government. What he learned about ...

After identifying the captured Saddam Hussein during the Iraqi invasion in 2003, chief analyst John Nixon was chosen to be his long-term interrogator for the U.S. government. What he learned about the former Iraqi dictator provides many contrarian currents to what we know about Iraq, America's motive for our involvement, and the way bureaucracies often care more about prestige than intelligence.