See Tyler Drumheller (instead of Ann Coulter) next Thursday

[Chiyo-chichi]

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/2897.html

BLOOMINGTON -- Tyler Drumheller, former chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's European division, will appear at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington to discuss "The Politicalization of the CIA" on Feb. 23 at 5 p.m. The lecture will be in the SPEA Building Atrium located at 1315 E. Tenth St. The event is free and open to the public.

Gene Coyle, the CIA's officer in residence at IU, who teaches courses on the role of intelligence in U.S. foreign policy for SPEA, worked for Drumheller before coming to Bloomington. "Tyler was one of the most respected operations officers at the CIA and at the center of the Curveball controversy," Coyle said. "Whatever one's views on the Iraq war, Tyler's insights on the role of the CIA in providing intelligence support to the president will be quite enlightening -- an insider's view that is rarely available to the public."

Drumheller retired from the CIA in 2004 after 25 years with the agency. He maintains that in 2002 and 2003, he and others at the CIA warned officials about an informant named "Curveball," whose information later was used in a speech at the United Nations by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell as a justification for war with Iraq. The commission investigating the failed intelligence has since discredited Curveball as a source.