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Last year I arrived early for a lunch address by Gen. Michael Hayden, who ran the National Security Agency and later the Central Intelligence Agency in the George W. Bush administration. Hayden was already there, and glad to chat. The conversation turned to Egypt, and I asked Hayden why the Republican mainstream had embraced the Muslim Brotherhood rather than the military government of President al-Sisi, an American-trained soldier who espoused a reformed Islam that would repudiate terrorism. “We were sorry that [Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed] Morsi was overthrown” in July 2013, Hayden explained. “We wanted to see what would happen...

THE FIGHT FOR IRAQ Democrats Ask Whether Chalabi, In U.S., Will Face FBI Questions By SCOT J. PALTROW Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 10, 2005; Page B3 Three Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats demanded that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales answer questions both about Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi's current visit to top Bush administration officials and about why a criminal investigation into his possible role in leaking U.S. secrets to Iran appears to have languished. Mr. Chalabi, now a deputy prime minister in Iraq with authority over its oil resources, arrived in Washington Tuesday on his first visit to...