US paid $1m for 'useless intelligence' from Chalabi

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The Independent


30 September 2003

Information from Iraqi defectors made available by Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress before the US invasion was of little or no use, a Pentagon intelligence review shows.

The Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) said defectors introduced to US intelligence agents by the organisation invented or exaggerated their claims to have personal knowledge of the regime and its alleged weapons of mass destruction. The US paid more than $1m for such information.

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But the DIA review, mentioned in a leaked letter to Stephen Cambone, the under secretary of defence for intelligence, makes clear that no more than a third of the information was potentially useful, and efforts to explore even these leads were generally unproductive.

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"The intelligence isn't reliable at all," Vincent Cannistraro, a former senior CIA official and counter-terrorism expert, said before the war. "Much of it is propaganda. Much of it is telling the Defence Department what they want to hear. And much of it is used to support Chalabi's own presidential ambitions. They make no distinction between intelligence and propaganda, using alleged informants and defectors who say what Chalabi wants them to say, cooked information that goes right into presidential and vice-presidential speeches."

Information provided by Mr Chalabi was used extensively by the administration and US journalists. Surces said The New York Times reporter Judith Miller relied on the INC for many of her stories about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction. Most of the claims in those stories have since proved unfounded but in an e-mail to a colleague she wrote: "I've been covering Chalabi for about 10 years, and have done most of the stories about him for our paper. He has provided most of the front-page exclusives on WMD to our paper."


drip, drip, drip..... Looks like W is going to need a lot of plumbers, the leaks are going to start spouting all over the place.

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1. Your taxpayer $$ at work...

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2. I would add Lord Levy to the useless list:

his round of manic shuttle diplomacy on Poodle's behalf just before the invasion appears to have been funded by Australians who had taken out a shopping mall lease option on WTC land before 9-11: a supermarket developer called Frank Lowy who is on record as paying Levy for scouting around for business opportunities worldwide....

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3. who knew the neocons were such suckers

so much education between them... but such easy marks.

Tell us what we want to hear and we will make you rich and make you King... er... elected head of the country.... We'll just pretend tht there aren't multiple charges of Bank Fraud pending against you in Jordan. You sing OUR song to us, serenade us, so we KNOW you must be a good and honorable man.

[dArKeR]

4. Independent Prosecutor for Clinton kissing a woman but not for dead

American soldiers? Where is the Republican morality?
$75,000,000 claimed expense but probably more like
$275,000,000 was spent considering the indirect investigations and participation by other US Government employees. Not even counting the money the Whore Media spent to dig up some lies, $300,000,000.

Ask a Whore for an Independent Prosecutor! As a side investigation ask the IP to look exactly where the tie is between Clark and The Bush Crime Family!

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