Loose Canons
The CIA Disinformation Campaign
The Senate Intelligence Committee needs to investigate the CIA's campaign against the president.
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5) Why wasn’t Wilson required to sign a confidentiality agreement?
6) Were his various op-eds vetted at CIA?
7) Who else, beside Vallely and his wife, knew Plame was a CIA employee, when did they know it, and from whom?
8) Who was Bob Novak’s source? Was it Wilson? Pavitt? Someone else at CIA?
There are hundreds of other questions that should be answered publicly. Let’s get ol’ Joe in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, under oath and with the television cameras on. Let’s see if he does as well as George Galloway did in front of Norm Coleman’s Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. I have no doubt he’ll fail to rise to even that standard.
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About the Author
Jed Babbin served as a Deputy Undersecretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush. He is the author of several bestselling books including Inside the Asylum and In the Words of Our Enemies. You can follow him on Twitter @jedbabbin.
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