FBI probes possible Pentagon leak to Iraqi exiles

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/politics/9595471.htm

BY JAMES GORDON MEEK

New York Daily News


WASHINGTON - (KRT) - The FBI is probing whether Pentagon officials shared secrets about Iran's weapons of mass destruction with Iraqi exiles, who then passed the intelligence back to Tehran, the New York Daily News has learned.

Sources said Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi is suspected of giving Iran's mullahs secrets that were intercepted by U.S. code-breakers - a major intelligence breach.

"We're investigating the WMD and Chalabi issues," confirmed a top government source.

Some of the U.S. defense officials who recently came under FBI scrutiny for possibly passing Iran intel to Chalabi or the Iraqi congress worked in an ad hoc unit run by Douglas Feith, the Pentagon's No. 3 official and policy chief.

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[seemslikeadream]

1. There are spies inside

Stahl of CBS reported Friday that the FBI is about to "roll up" a spy working for Israel from within the office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon. "the suspected mole supplied Israel with classified materials that include secret White House policy deliberations on Iran. " The FBI investigation, headed up by Dave Szady, has involved wiretaps, undercover surveillance and photography that CBS News was told document the passing of classified information from the mole, to the men at American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a powerful pro-Israel lobby in Washington, and on to the Israelis. CBS sources say that last year the suspected spy, described as a trusted analyst at the Pentagon, turned over a presidential directive on U.S. policy toward Iran while it was, "in the draft phase when U.S. policy-makers were still debating the policy."

Israel's Mole Inside the Pentagon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=783161


Wider FBI Probe Of Pentagon Leaks Includes Chalabi - WaPo

washingtonpost.com
Wider FBI Probe Of Pentagon Leaks Includes Chalabi

By Robin Wright and Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, September 3, 2004; Page A01

FBI counterintelligence agents are investigating whether several Pentagon officials leaked classified information to Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, according to a law enforcement official and other people familiar with the case.

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The FBI probe is actually much broader, according to senior U.S. officials, and has been underway for at least two years. Several sources familiar with the case say the probe now extends to other Pentagon personnel who have a particular interest in assisting both Israel and Chalabi, the former Iraqi dissident who was long a Pentagon favorite but who has fallen out of favor with the U.S. government.

The sources and others interviewed for this article spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is highly sensitive and involves classified information.

There appears to be at least two common threads in the multi-faceted investigation. First, the FBI is investigating whether the same people passed highly classified information to two disparate allies -- Chalabi and a pro-Israel lobbying group. Second, at least some of the intelligence in both instances included sensitive information about Iran.

The broader investigation is also looking into the movement of classified materials on U.S. intentions in Iraq and on the Arab-Israeli peace process, sources added.
more
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A57595-2004Sep...

Wider FBI Probe Of Pentagon Leaks Includes Chalabi - WaPo
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=798333

[enough]

2. Good to see that old civil libertarian Newt Gingrich is on the case.

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., a confidant of Pentagon neoconservatives like Feith, on Sunday slammed FBI and CIA officials over leaks of the probe.

"To have people who are supposed to be in charge of security out smearing people makes one worry about the protection of individual liberty and ... individual innocence in this society," Gingrich told NBC's "Meet the Press."

[BeHereNow]

3. Tell it to Valerie Plame, Newt.

GOD I hate these people!
Can't we just ship them all to an island somewhere?
Let them devour eachother like the gingham dog
and the calico cat?
BHN

[KeepItReal]

4. The odds of Ashcroft letting the FBI arrest and imprison these traitors...

...is about as great as them finding *and* convicting the Anthrax killer. http://www.news-medical.net/?id=3864">Link

...or about as great as Bil Laden being captured *alive* by November. From VOA

Ashcroft is his own Axis of Incompetence. He arrests people on little-to-no probable cause to grab headlines, then comes back much later on with a "my bad" that never garners the nearly same amount of press as the spectacular arrest and faux charges.