Wired and several other sites are breaking the story that University of Michigan Arab scholar Juan Cole, blogging here, and blogging hard against invading Iraq and questioning specific decisions in Afghanistan, looked into using the CIA to shut Cole up in some way.
Of course, this is reprehensible, but not surprising.
And, unnecessary.
As Obama's bombing of Libya, and Cole's hugely uncriticial acceptance of said bombing, shows, all Bush had to do was somehow get a UN fig leaf for invading Iraq and Cole might well have supported it lock, stock and barrel.
Cole is right that these allegations need to be addressed.
As well as looking at the possibility that Team Obama, just as it has adopted many other things from BushCo, is doing similar as we speak.
Beyond that, as an Obamiac, Cole and his followers expecting an investigation from the man who pledged to "look forward"? I hear a petard being cranked up right about now.
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Update, later today:
I posted a comment broadly on the lines above at Cole's comment-moderated blog. He has yet to approve it, so I noted that on Facebook. And, I tried again, and he wouldn't post that one, either.
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Update, June 18:
First, another tidbit on Cole: Per a cached version of a blogpost at another website, he's "good" about trying to cover his tracks when he's caught, well, making shit up.
Second, the ex-spook making the spying claim has a book coming out.
Publicity stunt by him? By Cole? By both?
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