Here are some clues.
...tangentially related to the mystery of the missing weapons of mass destruction, for example....decision to commit fewer troops than the generals requested. He's a leading indicator, like a falling Dow--something that correlates with but does not cause disaster.
Start with Abu Ghraib....in charge of Iraq's military prisons....devised the legal solution for getting around the Geneva Conventions' prohibition on physically or psychologically coercing prisoners of war into talking. As a Pentagon official in the 1980s....laid out the argument that terrorists didn't deserve protection under the Geneva Conventions. Once the war on terrorism started, all....had to do was implement it....
During the buildup to the war....oversaw the two offices that have since been criticized for politicizing intelligence and for inadequately planning for the occupation.....
Name that person