Electile dysfunction

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by DougJ in Damascus

In a sane world, this would be a bigger story than a Congressmen tweeting shirtless pictures of himself.

Glenn L. Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was a top counterterrorism official during the administration of President George W. Bush, said the White House at least twice asked intelligence officials to gather sensitive information on Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor who writes an influential blog that criticized the war.

In an interview, Mr. Carle said his supervisor at the National Intelligence Council told him in 2005 that White House officials wanted “to get” Professor Cole, and made clear that he wanted Mr. Carle to collect information about him, an effort Mr. Carle rebuffed. Months later, Mr. Carle said, he confronted a C.I.A. official after learning of another attempt to collect information about Professor Cole. Mr. Carle said he contended at the time that such actions would have been unlawful.

I’m sure this guy has a book to sell. Also too, it’s worth nothing that the AIPAC crowd seems to have stopped Yale from hiring Cole.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/06/16/electile-dysfunction/

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1. Strong recommend. Nt

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2. One more in a long, long list of crimes. n/t