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" Good infrastructure is crucial to long term sustainable development , " says Professor Oaks , " but as a whole , development needs to be carried out at a local scale and made to fit specific local conditions , which are very different throughout the western regions . Third , this exclusion of professional and independent opinions , both within the Pentagon and across government agencies - according to Kwiatkowski - resulted in " groupthink " , a technical term defined as " reasoning or decision-making by a group , often characterized by uncritical acceptance of conformity to prevailing points of view " . Headed by a gung-ho former navy officer , William Luti , and a scholarly national-security analyst , Abram Shulsky , OSP was given complete access to reams of raw intelligence produced by the US intelligence community and became the preferred stop , when in town , for defectors handled by the Iraqi National Congress ( INC ) , led by Ahmed Chalabi . This year , until Monday , the net exposure of local funds stands reduced by about $ 300 million .