November 22, 2004

Partisan psycho butthole now working for CIA
No, the other butthole.

Until a few weeks ago, Patrick Murray was just another ambitious Capitol Hill staffer. As a top aide to Rep. Porter Goss, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee, Murray had a reputation as a sharp-tongued partisan lawyer. When Democrats on the committee asked the CIA for information, Murray would cut them off, reminding the agency that only requests backed by the Republican majority should be honored.

"He was just impossible," says one staffer who dealt with him. "He was sarcastic, snide and had this uncanny ability to push people's buttons."

One former CIA official told Newsweek that Murray leaned on him more than once to declassify information so he could use it to "embarrass the Democrats."


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