Also, around early 2007 A declassified report by the Pentagon's acting Inspector General Thomas F. Gimble provided new insight into the circumstances behind former Pentagon official Douglas Feith's pre-Iraq war assessment of an Iraq-Al Qaeda connection. An assessment that was contrary to US intelligence agency findings. This new Pentagon investigation had criticized many Pentagon officials for conducting their own pre-war intelligence analysis with thel purpose of finding false links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda with the sole aim of bolstering public support for war with Iraq via the media.