Okay, The American Prospect is a liberal publication. Still,
this article on the latest
Regnery propaganda from Curt Weldon, a member of our fine Congress, was interesting. This is especially so after the revelations of a top FBI guy being deep throat.
Mahdavi also said that the bulk of the information that he had provided to Weldon was originally sourced from none other than Ghorbanifar, the subject of a rare CIA “burn notice” after the agency found him to be a "fabricator" more than two decades ago during the Iran-Contra affair.
Mahdavi is Weldon's mysteriously named source, Ali. These guys are like bad weeds, but somehow they always seem to find someone to water them. So we have a member of Congress, Weldon, writing a book to discredit the CIA using a discredited source, Ghorbanifar, who had to use an indebted third party, Mahdavi, to shovel information to Weldon because Ghorbanifar is such a well-known fabricator. From the Amazon summary:
Congressman Weldon exposes a deeply dysfunctional culture and perverse political agendas in American intelligence that are endangering American security.
Irony is lost on these guys, clearly.
1 comment:
I guess that means: what the heck are you talking about. At the risk of making it worse, Regnery is a "publishing house" in the loosest sense of the word, with a political agenda (they're the same folks who brought you the swift boat liars). Weldon has a political agenda. Ghorbanifar has a political agenda. The other guy has a survival agenda. The CIA tends to have an institutional agenda more than a political agenda, as does the FBI. Thus was born Deep Throat. I thought the irony was obvious ;). I suppose you'll see this guy Weldon interviewed on, er, certain channels, and he'll be presented as a champion of freedom rather than a nut case. Oh well, obviously I strayed too far into the political domain with this one. I will try to control myself.
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