The Weekly Standard
by Scott Johnson

11/08/05

Joe Wilson was not, of course, the only CIA-related political opponent of the Bush administration who emerged during the run-up to the 2004 election. In July 2004, the same month that the Times published Wilson's notorious op-ed column, CIA analyst Michael Scheuer published his strange book Imperial Hubris (by 'Anonymous'), which attacked American foreign policy related to the war on terrorism. (Scheuer was identified as the 'Anonymous' author of the book by the Boston Phoenix even before the book's official publication date.) In the epilogue to the paperback edition, Scheuer stated that he 'was never told why the CIA permitted publication.' Following publication of the book, the CIA permitted Scheuer 'anonymously' to criticize the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror in media interviews until his criticisms extended beyond the administration to the intelligence community. (Scheuer left the Agency last November -- the week after the election.)...

http://tinyurl.com/am4qb


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp