 The current president has also had his conflicts with the CIA. He, however, has espoused the very policy favored by the CIA under Kennedy, the relentless pursuit of foreign wars. To achieve his end, that war in Iraq, no matter what lie he had to tell to implement it, the disinformation was spread that the CIA had fallen down on the job. In fact, the CIA had reported accurately about the situation in Iraq, and this before the Iraq war. CIA noted that an invasion of Iraq was likely to lead to civil war.