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James Risen, The New York Times News Service: 'A former senior C.I.A. official says that officials in the Bush White House sought damaging personal information on a prominent American critic of the Iraq war in order to discredit him. 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.'

http://www.truth-out.org/ex-spy-alleges-bush-white-house-sought-discredit-juan-cole/1308234734

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The Bush Administration s CIA Smear Campaign

By Juan Cole

It is shocking to discover that the Bush White House would stoop to suborning the CIA to try to discredit a critical blogger like me.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28357.htm

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The Persecution of Juan Cole
http://lewrockwell.com/raimondo/raimondo117.html



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