The Washington Examiner
Scarborough’s latest book, “Sabotage: America’s Enemies Within the CIA,” contends that “America’s men and women in uniform are being betrayed at home by the CIA, the very agency designed to protectthem around the world.”
It’s no light charge, and the CIA has broken from its usual “silence is golden” media strategy to take him on.
“We generally don’t comment on books,” CIA Director of Public Affairs Mark Mansfield said in a statement, “but we have departed from that on occasion, and have decided to do so in connection with Rowan Scarborough’s new book. … CIA employees work very hard to protect their fellow citizens and to help keep America safe. … The premise of Mr. Scarborough’s book — that CIA employees are working to undermine our government — is both ridiculous and offensive.”
Bring it on, Scarborough says: “The CIA should talk to Bush [administration] officials who picked up the morning paper and read that unnamed CIA officials were falsely accusing them of wrongdoing, even criminality,” he tells Yeas & Nays. “Ask them if they don’t feel sabotaged by the CIA.”
