The Bush administration is using classification selectively for political purposes evidenced by its inconsistent decisions on declassifying documents, according to a recent Washington Post article. In the article, critics outline a pattern of document classification that supports the administration's positions and the inappropriate classification of information that contradicts the President's positions. The most recent example of this behavior came just last week when the White House requested that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) review a 2003 testimony by former counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke for possible declassification. The request came after the former White House official made serious political waves for the Bush administration by telling the commission investigating the 9-11 attacks that President Bush had ignored terrorism for the attacks and inappropriately focused on Iraq after the attacks. Another example of the administration’s uneven treatment of classification is the release of intercepted conversations between Iraqi military officers, typically highly guarded information, in an effort to convince the United Nations to support the White House's plan to invade Iraq. William Leonard, director of the government's Information Security Oversight Office troublingly dismissed the issue of declassifying documents for political gain claiming that "is not unheard of, but it's not routine." Critics cited a truncated version of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction as a political document. The document, released before the war with Iraq, made clear and definitive statements that Iraq was pursuing nuclear, biological and chemical weapons capabilities. However, a fuller version released after the war contained detailed and specific disagreements by some intelligence agencies. The Bush administration has regularly been charged with having an unprecedented penchant for secrecy. However, these new charges are even more troubling, that the White House would misuse declassification and selectively allow openness for the purpose of misleading decision-makers and the general public.