Did the Bush White House ask the CIA to discredit a U.S. college professor? - inthearena

Cole tells Eliot that what happened is "deeply troubling," that it harkens back to the "bad old" days of Richard Nixon in the White House, and he advocates strongly that Congress and the Department of Justice investigate the request and what the CIA did about it. He asks, "Were others targeted?" - Did the Bush White House ask the CIA to discredit a U.S. college professor?