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PENTAGON PAL GAVE IRAN SECRETS: MAG
New York Post ^
| 5/03/04
| DEBORAH ORIN
Posted on 05/03/2004 1:35:39 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:21:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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May 3, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - U.S. spy agencies claim Iraqi leader Ahmed Chalabi, who has close Pentagon ties, may have given Iran's ayatollahs some top-secret tips on U.S. actions in Iraq and that could "get people killed," it was reported yesterday. The Newsweek report claims electronic intercepts show Chalabi gave Iran "sensitive" tips about U.S. political plans in Iraq - but gives no details - and says there are "indications" that Chalabi leaked details of U.S. security operations.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chalabi; iran; iraq; southwestasia
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posted on
05/03/2004 1:35:40 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Ever notice how the media labels things and never lets go, even if they are proved wrong?
just asking.
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posted on
05/03/2004 1:44:29 AM PDT
by
GeronL
("We are beyond right and wrong" the scariest words from the radical left.)
To: GeronL
That's not exactly true -- they like to "move on" and forget the "liar" label very quickly in some circumstances.[;>)
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posted on
05/03/2004 6:38:56 AM PDT
by
expatpat
To: kattracks
"But the CIA and State Department are pushing the claim that Chalabi is playing a double game with Iran's fundamentalist ayatollahs, Newsweek said."
What more can we expect for these people at the State Department who facilitated that UN "Oil for rotten Food scam. The CIA who did a miserable job in gathering "INTEL".
Or maybe Hillary still has a few moles deep in the bowels of goverment.
To: GeronL
>>>>>Ever notice how the media labels things and never lets go, even if they are proved wrong?<<<<
On one side, there are NYT with abysmal record of accurate reporting (from Ukraine famine to the present day), Clinton-infested State Department and The Company competent in drug running but not competent enough to predict the fall of Soviet Empire.
On the opposite side, there is The Baghdad thief
Whom to trust? A tough question.
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posted on
05/03/2004 6:57:43 AM PDT
by
DTA
(you ain't seen nothing yet.)
To: DTA
I will trust the second term Bush appointees in State and other areas.
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posted on
05/03/2004 7:19:32 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Only difference between the liberals and the Nazis is that the liberals love the Communists.)
To: EQAndyBuzz
I am convinced that the entrenched beaurocrats left over from previous admins are fighting tooth and nail to destroy President Bush and his efforts.
I sincerely hope he kicks a bunch of them out when he is reelected. Unfortunately, the federal workers union is probably so strong that the President cannot do what needs to be done.
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posted on
05/03/2004 7:51:55 AM PDT
by
arjay
("I don't do bumper stickers." Donald Rumsfeld)
To: mr.pink; JohnGalt; Burkeman1; J. L. Chamberlain
ping
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posted on
05/03/2004 10:03:31 AM PDT
by
Liz
To: Liz
Whoever allowed this person to infect the institutions of our fair Republic, must face a trial on nothing short of the charges of treason.
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posted on
05/03/2004 11:40:07 AM PDT
by
JohnGalt
(Chalabi Republicans: Soft on Treason)
To: JohnGalt
There are several bodies of law that deal with this sort of thing but I doubt whether they will be employed.
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posted on
05/03/2004 12:49:55 PM PDT
by
Liz
To: Just mythoughts
CHALABI PROFILE: Ahmed Chalabi is the neocon-connected head of the Iraqi exiles who provided much of the information for US intelligence that is now considered to be bogus, and has recently come close to acknowledging that he had provided disinformation but, Chalabi says that the "ends justified the means" (a universally discredited utilitarian rationale)
Chalabi is (or was) a member of the new Iraqi provisional council and is (or was) poised to be a major player in the new Iraq.
Chalabai now says his information about Saddam Hussein's weapons -- even if discredited -- achieved the aim of persuading the United States to topple the dictator.
Chalabi and his London-based exile group, the Iraqi National Congress, for years provided a conduit for Iraqi defectors who were debriefed by U.S. intelligence agents.
Now many American officials blame Chalabi for providing what turned out to be self-serving, false, or wildly exaggerated intelligence, about Iraq's WMD.
During an interview late Feb, Mr. Chalabi, who is also considered one of the most effective anti-Saddam lobbyists in Washington, shrugged off charges that he had deliberately misled U.S. intelligence.
"We are heroes in error," he said in Baghdad. "As far as we're concerned, we've been entirely successful." Apparently Chalabi's achieved his goals.
Chalabi was interviewd by Leslie Stahl on CBS' 60 Minutes several weeks ago where it was revealed that the US was still paying Chalabi $300,000 per month. No word on how this cash cow is divided up among the "interested" parties.
Self-interested Chalabi and his Iraqi exiles were capable of presenting any kind of disinformation in order to get their chief enemy Saddam removed to enable them to cash in as the new ruling elite of Iraq.
There was, in some US quarters, skepticism about information from a group like Chalabi's with a cash-and-carry interest in toppling Saddam's regime.
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posted on
05/03/2004 12:55:51 PM PDT
by
Liz
To: Liz
""Rushing to judgment and cutting off this relationship could have unintended consequences," one Pentagon official said."
"But the CIA and State Department are pushing the claim that Chalabi is playing a double game with Iran's fundamentalist ayatollahs, Newsweek said."
I do not dispute "Chalabi" may very well have character flaws. HOwever, any finger pointing that comes from the State Department after they did nothing to put an end to that UN "Oil for rotten Food" program scam, hardly gives them credibility to have a say about "Chalabi".
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