Baerer of Truth

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
You may know him as Bob Barnes, the fictional CIA agent played by George Clooney in the movie, “Syriana.” The real-life person is Robert Baer, a 20-year veteran of the agency and author of a new novel about an alternative history of the events leading up to 9/11. Plus: Laurie David, the producer of the Al Gore global warming film, “An Incovenient Truth,” why fewer African Americans are getting married, and former assemblyman Nelson Dennis.

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