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

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 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