Thursday, July 22, 2004

This second phase of the investigation, which has been delayed until after the November election, will also examine the relationship between a cadre of neoconservative administration officials, such as Paul Wolfowitz, and Ahmad Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, according to congressional sources. (Chalabi is currently under criminal investigation by the FBI for providing classified U.S. intelligence information to the Iranian government, and by Iraqi authorities for corruption and human rights violations.)

A congressional source told me: “This is where the fireworks are going to be. What is left unsaid in this report is that much of the faulty intelligence and questionable sources was sent our way by Chalabi. He played us. One could even argue that he virtually led us into war -- except for the fact that he was telling us exactly what we wanted to hear.”

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8132

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