Juan Cole is a Middle Eastern affairs expert and he's a blogger that i often read. Among other things, he was instrumental in debunking a lot of the lies coming from the Bush Administration in the run-up to the Iraq War. And apparently the Bush Admin ordered the CIA to dig up embarrassing dirt on Cole's personal life to discredit him (they didn't find anything).

Here is the NYTimes article. And here's Cole's take.

If the standard pattern holds, the Obama Administration will now arrest Glenn Carle for revealing this information.