A former CIA agent claims that the Bush Administration used the agency in an effort to discredit Juan Cole, the University of Michigan History Professor who blogs at Informed Comment and who became a strong critic of the Iraq War. Full Story and reaction from Professor Cole Here.
I used to follow Juan Cole.
ReplyDeleteSeemed to me that as of about a year ago he started getting a little weak.
Maybe he was cooling it because of this.
I will have to visit him again, and see.
How many other true journalists have been threatened, silenced, or turned by the status quo?
I haven't noticed a weakening of the Professor's line but his finest hour was certainly the Iraq debacle.
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