Washington's Chalabi nightmare

[Dover]

Washington's Chalabi nightmare

One more headache for the besieged Bush administration: The FBI is now interrogating the neocon cronies of Ahmed Chalabi.

By Sidney Blumenthal

May 27, 2004 | At a well-appointed conservative think tank in downtown Washington and across the Potomac River at the Pentagon, FBI agents have begun paying quiet calls on prominent neoconservatives, who are being interviewed in an investigation of potential espionage, according to intelligence sources. Who gave Ahmed Chalabi classified information about the plans of the U.S. government and military?

The Iraqi neocon favorite, tipped to lead his liberated country post-invasion, has been identified by the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency as an Iranian double agent, passing secrets to that citadel of the "axis of evil" for decades. All the while the neocons cosseted, promoted and arranged for more than $30 million in Pentagon payments to the George Washington manqué of Iraq. In return, he fed them a steady diet of disinformation, and in the run-up to the war he sent various exiles to nine nations' intelligence agencies to spread falsehoods about weapons of mass destruction. If the administration had wanted other material to provide a rationale for invasion, no doubt that would have been fabricated. Either Chalabi perpetrated the greatest con since the Trojan horse or he was the agent of influence for the most successful intelligence operation conducted by Iran, or both.


The CIA and other U.S. agencies had long ago decided that Chalabi was a charlatan, so their dismissive and correct analysis of his lies prompted their suppression by the Bush White House. In place of the normal channels of intelligence vetting, a jury-rigged system was hastily constructed, running from the office of the vice president to the newly created Office of Special Plans inside the Pentagon, staffed by fervent neocons. CIA Director George Tenet, possessed with the survival instinct of the inveterate staffer, ceased protecting the sanctity of his agency and cast in his lot with Cheney et al. Secretary of State Colin Powell, resistant internally but eventually overcome, decided to become the most ardent champion, unveiling a series of neatly manufactured lies before the United Nations. Last week Powell declared, "It turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong and, in some cases, deliberately misleading. And for that I'm disappointed, and I regret it." But who had "deliberately" misled him? He did not say. Now the FBI is investigating espionage, fraud and by implication treason....cont'd

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/05/27/chalabi/index_np.html

(Will need to get a Day Pass at Salon to finish the article)

[aquart]

1. I simply salivate.

[jean]

2. let's hope this incinerates those think tanks once and for all

[autorank]

3. The CIA is so damn good at this stuff

They're playing three dimensional chess. You've got your Chalabi/spy-traitor; your Plamegate/traitor; and, now for something special, your Pentagon spy/traitor. They're encircling Bush with combined themes of betrayal and 'weak on national security (of any type).'

And its not even September!

[Dover]

4. Don't forget BCCI, Riggs Bank, etc...will dismantle the whole evil empire

and it's global collaborators. They are being completely erradicated.

[Jerseygirltoo]

8. Yet the media still refuses to get a clue!

The media mainly reports these incidents in isolation, and without any context, so the American people have yet to really catch on to the pattern. Will they realize in time for the election?

[Dover]

5. Chalabi-gate: Hunt is on for Harold Rhode, Michael Rubin and others

Chalabi-gate: Hunt is on for Harold Rhode, Michael Rubin and others

The hunt on the helping traitors continues...

Besides helping hands in U.S. Media (Judith Miller/NY Times, Jim Hoagland/Washington Post, John Podhoretz/Son of PNAC-Norman Podhoretz), "the hunt is on, in the Republican Party, in Congress, in the CIA and State Department..."

There is a huge chance, that this list will bring us also to the real perpetrators of 9/11, who needed a devastating new "Pearl Harbour", as documented in PNAC files from 2000. Two more names for Chalabi's "sources" had been already added for "ChalabiGate":
Harold Rhode and Michael Rubin)

..snip..


"The real target goes beyond Chalabi. The hunt is on, in the Republican Party, in Congress, in the CIA and State Department and in a media which is being deluged with leaks, for Chalabi's friends and sponsors in Washington – the group known as the neo-cons. In particular, the targets seem to be Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the former assistant secretary (in Reagan's day) Richard Perle, Vice President Dick Cheney's national security aide Scooter Libby, and the National Security Council's Middle East aide Elliott Abrams.

The leaking against them – from sources who insist on anonymity, but some CIA and FBI veterans – is intense. Some of the sources are now private citizens, making a good living through business connections in the Arab world."..CONT'D

http://inn.globalfreepress.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=305

[jean]

6. it would be oh-so-nice if they could also nail Gingrich in any way

[roguevalley]

7. Lord, conservatives are SO STUPID!