{"id":6696,"date":"2010-08-26T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T19:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6696"},"modified":"2011-01-05T15:22:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:22:37","slug":"karzai-aide-linked-to-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/08\/26\/karzai-aide-linked-to-cia\/","title":{"rendered":"Karzai aide linked to CIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6698\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/CIA-logo.jpg\" alt=\"CIA logo\" width=\"102\" height=\"102\" \/>The <em>New York Times<\/em> <a title=\"reports\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/26\/world\/asia\/26kabul.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that a key aid to Afghan President Hamid Karzai is on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency payroll and has been for years.\u00a0 The aide, Mohammed Zia Salehi, is the chief of administration for the Afghanistan National Security Council and is at the center of a politically sensitive corruption investigation.\u00a0 International relations Professor <a title=\"Arthur Hulnick\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/hulnick.html\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur Hulnick<\/a>, a 35-year veteran of the intelligence profession, mostly with the CIA, says relationships the agency develops overseas inevitably include some people of questionable character.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But that&#8217;s how the agency finds out what&#8217;s happening.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><em>Too bad that people who understand intelligence &#8212; and the New York Times reporters certainly do &#8211; -still spin the story to make it appear that the CIA is somehow \u2018evil.\u2019\u00a0 They know better, even while the public is misled.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Arthur Hulnick, 617-353-8978, <a href=\"mailto:ahulnick@bu.edu\">ahulnick@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports that a key aid to Afghan President Hamid Karzai is on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency payroll and has been for years.\u00a0 The aide, Mohammed Zia Salehi, is the chief of administration for the Afghanistan National Security Council and is at the center of a politically sensitive corruption investigation.\u00a0 International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[116,2695,962,2630,3562],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6702,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions\/6702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}