Antiwar.com's Man of the Year: Thomas Fingar

No, it isn’t Vladimir Putin: unlike others, we don’t think he’s the Devil incarnate, but neither is he an angel, and it’s certainly an odd choice for an American magazine to make. Instead, Antiwar.com chooses Thomas Fingar, the principal author of the recently-issued National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. As the Guardian put it: "Almost single-handedly he has stopped – or, at the very least, postponed – any U.S. military action against Iran."

Fingar is a top intelligence analyst at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, a former head of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, with a Stanford degree (in political science) and lots of experience with the State Department’s China desk. He is in charge of producing and overseeing the President’s daily briefing, among other duties, was reportedly opposed to the Iraq war, and has consistently been a voice of reason within the administration.

Fingar has apparently been fighting the War Party – notably, John Bolton – in the corridors of power, and his recent victory in the NIE matter marks a turning point in the fight to re-take American foreign policy from the neoconservatives who hijacked it so effectively after 9/11. The Iran NIE augurs the rollback of the Bizarro Effect even in Washington, the very epicenter of the distortion. With the triumph of the "realists," and the retreat of the neocons, George W. Bush’s last months in office may be a whole lot safer than we ever imagined possible.

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