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Juan Cole Speaks Out About Alleged CIA Attempts to Smear His Name at Request of Bush Administration
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2:45Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - A former top counterterrorism officer at the CIA is claiming the Bush administration sought damaging personal information on a prominent critic of the Iraq war in order to smear him publicly. Speaking to The New York Times, the former officer, Glenn Carle, says the Bush administration made at least two requests for intelligence about Juan Cole, a Middle East expert and professor at the University of Michigan. Cole, who has been a frequent guest on Democracy Now!, maintains the popular blog "Informed Comment," which rose to prominence after the Iraq invasion.
Democracy Now! asked Juan Cole for comment: "Well, it's just outrageous that the Bush administration should be using CIA resources to not only spy on an American citizen on American soil, but to direct them to destroy the person's reputation. This is just sabotage. And we should remember that this was a period in which the nation was facing enormous challenges—capturing bin Laden, destroying al-Qaeda, understanding what was happening in Afghanistan and Iraq—and that any resources should be diverted to this kind of political shenanigans at that time is absolutely criminal."
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