The nation's top intelligence analyst, Thomas Fingar, said he plans to finish the Iraq NIE by the end of January.

NPR: Senate Panel Studies Intelligence Community

There is no little irony in Thomas Fingar's parting gift to the nation, a just-released National Intelligence Estimate entitled Global Trends 2025.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Intelligence mis-estimates

This homogenized product of the various intelligence agencies performed under the supervision of the deputy director of national intelligence, Thomas Fingar, avers though that the Iranians may have abandoned this program.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Where's our Churchill?

One item of good news in a week buffeted by the Dow Jones' death-spiral, reports of the domestic automakers' incipient demise and ever-more-assertive testing by various adversaries of the not-yet-inaugurated "young President" Obama: Thomas Fingar is leaving the building.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Intelligence mis-estimates

Negroponte has made another Foreign Service Officer with a record of downplaying threats - Thomas Fingar, former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research - his senior Deputy for Analysis, a critical job in the assessment of all classified information.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: See no evil?

In his latest book entitled The Failure Factory, Washington Times national security correspondent Bill Gertz develops more fully the dangers associated with the likes of bureaucrats of Thomas Fingar's ilk advancing their own agenda at the expense of the national interest.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Intelligence mis-estimates

In December of that year, the National Intelligence Council - then under the leadership of another product of the State Department, Thomas Fingar - produced an NIE that declared "with high confidence" that the Iranian mullahs had halted their nuclear weapons program in 2003.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Garbage in, garbage out