White House Tries to "Silence" ex-CIA Analyst

George is still at his old tricks. He obviously didn't learn from the Ambassador Wilson scandal. He really believes that he can suppress the truth from coming out by intimidating ex-officials:

A former National Security Council official said Monday that the White House tried to silence his criticism of its Middle East policies by ordering the CIA to censor an op-ed column he wrote.

Flynt Leverett, a former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council, or NSC, and a former CIA analyst, said the White House told a CIA censor board to excise parts of a 1,000-word commentary on U.S. policy toward Iran that he had offered to the New York Times.

Why is he being censored?:

Leverett, who has criticized the administration for failing to deal directly with Tehran, said the board wanted to remove references to prior U.S. contacts with Iran.

Revelations today that Laura Bush had skin cancer surgery over a month and the public was not told, shows a President that has an obsession with trying to keep bad news out of the papers. And like his war in Iraq -- he failed.