Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Nathan Freier, a senior fellow in the CSIS International Security Program, was quoted by the New York Times, "Government Study Faults Bush Administration's Measures of Progress in Iraq."
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Nathan Freier, a senior fellow in the CSIS International Security Program, was quoted by the New York Times, "Government Study Faults Bush Administration's Measures of Progress in Iraq."
Beyond the declines in overall violence in Iraq, several crucial measures the Bush administration uses to demonstrate economic, political and security progress are either incorrect or far more mixed than the administration has acknowledged, according to a report released Monday by the Government Accountability Office.
"Clearly there are substantial changes in the security situation on the ground," said Nathan Freier, a retired Army officer who served in Iraq in 2005 and 2007 and is now a senior fellow in the international security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
The administration prefers to focus on those improvements, Mr. Freier said. But the accountability office report, which Mr. Freier read on Monday, and his own observations in Iraq contain a different message, he said.
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