{"id":40647,"date":"2011-06-22T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T21:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=40647"},"modified":"2011-06-22T18:01:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T22:01:53","slug":"bush-administration-tried-to-smear-war-critic-juan-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/bush-administration-tried-to-smear-war-critic-juan-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Administration Tried to Smear War Critic Juan Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed_show_v2\/300\/2011\/6\/22\/story\/former_cia_agent_glenn_carle_reveals\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re fans of Juan Cole at Planet Waves &#8212; his analysis of Middle East politics is the best there is. Juan is an example of how (in the words of Stephen Colbert) reality has a well-known liberal bias. Amy Goodman covers the ridiculousness of the CIA trying to smear his reputation. In my mind, that proves he&#8217;s the real thing. Nothing like the CIA trying to make someone look bad to give a guy extra credibility. &#8211;efc<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former top CIA counterterrorism officer Glenn Carle has revealed the Bush administration sought damaging personal information on Juan Cole, an academic and prominent critic of the Iraq war, in an attempt to discredit him. Carle says the Bush White House made at least two requests for intelligence about Cole, whose blog &#8220;Informed Comment&#8221; rose to prominence after the Iraq invasion. Carle refused to carry out the request. In a joint interview, Carle and Cole join us to discuss the explosive revelation and why Cole is now calling for a congressional investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read the rush transcript of the interview in the video above, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2011\/6\/22\/former_cia_agent_glenn_carle_reveals\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re fans of Juan Cole at Planet Waves &#8212; his analysis of Middle East politics is the best there is. Juan is an example of how (in the words of Stephen Colbert) reality has a well-known liberal bias. Amy Goodman covers the ridiculousness of the CIA trying to smear his reputation. In my mind, that &#8230; <a title=\"Bush Administration Tried to Smear War Critic Juan Cole\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/bush-administration-tried-to-smear-war-critic-juan-cole\/\" aria-label=\"More on Bush Administration Tried to Smear War Critic Juan Cole\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}