Tip of the Iceberg? The probe into alleged Chalabi leaks to the Iranians

[struggle4progress]

... may widen

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The allegation that Chalabi may have supplied the Iranians information about U.S. military plans comes on the heels of recent disclosures that Chalabi or others in his organization may have compromised more recent U.S. intelligence operations by leaking what officials initially described as “extremely sensitive” and “highly classified” information to Iranian officials—information which could “get people killed” if abused by the Iranians.
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"This is an enormous loss to the U.S. intelligence community," one former U.S. intelligence official said today about the reported leak of the secret code system. "Obviously, the Iranians are not going to use that code anymore. We're going from having a complete window into what their intelligence service was doing to having no window at all."

Until last month, Chalabi’s INC was being paid $340,000 per month out of secret Defense Department intelligence funds for “information collection.”
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One Bush administration official said that in addition to harboring suspicions that Chalabi had been leaking sensitive U.S. information to Iran both before and after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, some U.S. officials also believe that Chalabi had collected and maintained files of potentially damaging information on U.S. officials with whom he had or was going to interact for the purpose of influencing them. Some officials said that when Iraqi authorities raided Chalabi’s offices, one of the things American officials hoped they would look for was Chalabi’s cache of information he had gathered on Americans.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5123436/site/newsweek/


Also some detail on who knew what when

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Looks like Chalabi's days

are numbered. How long before he commits suicide? Probably by shotting himself in the head at least three times?

[Dover]

So who was worried enough about Chalabi's info that they raided

his office? Who is in possession of the contents of what was discovered, and who really ordered the search?

[maddezmom]

4. the" long knives" are out for Chalabi

[OKNancy]

2. OOOOOOO - I want to know the dirt

Forget about Chalabi, I want to know what dirt he has on the officals.

[struggle4progress]

3. I wonder if he ever snorted coke with *

[seemslikeadream]

5. sorry I didn't see this struggle4progress

I'm having a bad night! Did you see who bush's lawyer is?

June 02, 2004 -- 07:50 PM EDT // link // print)
More on the president's lawyering up in the Plame case.

The lawyer in question is identified as Jim Sharp. I assume that's James E. Sharp, a Washington attorney who also represented Iran-Contra luminary Richard V. Secord.

That may prove convenient since the case will quite possibly involve some of the players from the old days.

And here is the next logical question.

From everything we know about this case, the probable connections would far more likely be to the vice-president rather than the president. So someone should ask whether Vice President Cheney has lawyered up too.

-- Josh Marshall
more
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com /

[struggle4progress]

6. It's a merry reunion for the whole gang of crooks!

Thanks much for pointing out the lawyer! I missed the connection.

[kysrsoze]

10. I think it's all finally starting to fall completely apart

Something else big happens on a daily basis. I can't wait to watch it all for the next 5 months. It's just going to be brutal. I would LOVE to see a criminal investigation into at least one of the high rankers before the election. That will seal the deal.

[rocktivity]

7. But how did Chalabi get the information in the first place?

Did he get it from the Bush White House? Why would they give him such information? Was the information actually false so they could make him a fall guy to begin with?

:headbang:
rocknation

[Voltaire99]

8. Imagine the GOP uproar if this happened on Clinton's watch.

Hint to Kerry campaign: you might want to make a squeak or two about this one.

[maggrwaggr]

9. one more way Bush is dragging this country through the mud

He is such a disgrace. Such a failure. He could singlehandedly destroy this country.

He's got our military completely tied down in a place where they never needed to be.

If we needed a military now for any other purpose, SORRY! It's occupied!

And the military was put there because he was suckered into it by Iran? And was so stupid that he was CONNED into invading Iran's enemy?

At the expense to the U.S. taxpayer of probably a TRILLION DOLLARS and a thousand American lives and thousands of serious injuries?

And out of personal spite he DESTROYED a branch of the CIA that was involved in terrorism and weapons of mass destruction? By outing a deep-cover CIA operative?

Tell me this guy isn't actually president. Tell me it's just some sort of "what if" scenario. Tell me if he actually became president somebody would quickly escort him into a black van and race him away to a place where we'd never see him again.

DOH!

[Moderator]

11. Duplicate

This post was first, but the other has significantly more replies. Sorry.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=598646&mesg_id=598646