Posted on 06/01/2004 8:23:08 PM PDT by saquin
If true, why is Chalabi not in a holding cell right now?
encrypted code? the message transmitted via what means? satellite phone?
Better yet, if true, why isn't the person who told this to Chalbi fired and being investigated for breach of national security.
Another no comment ping.
I didn't realize the security breach was this serious.
If true, Chalabi deserves no consideration. I am also deeply disappointed, because I was in the camp, which was giving him the benefit of the doubt.
Must be Ted Kennedy
"James Risen"
Remember the fake Vaclav Havel phone call to Bush he made up, or repeated from his "sources?" ie, the Atta in Prague case?
something isn't right. how do you send "a cable" from Iran to Iraq? there is no telco infrastructure there, and if there were, we'd be monitoring everything on it. all but the most sophisticated coding methods are breakable by NSA.
Wow. This is much worse than I thought.
Either you're with us, or you're against us.
Well, this explains the assassination of the Iranian minister in Iraq a few weeks back.
It is possible, from that account, that Chalabi was set up by the Iranians. They may have learnt of the broken code from another source, then used that cable, and the story about Chalabi, to see if the US would react.
I am just floating that as a possibility - it is all so murky. I think of Chalabi as such an obvious fraud that I am surprised that anyone would give him valued information.
This story is so much horsesh*t. Chalabi never had access to our encrypted stuff. This is a red herring designed to do two things: 1. Force the Iranians to wonder which of their codes have been broken, when in fact they probably have all been broken.
2. Find out who the Iranians are paying over here and walk the dog back up the chain of command.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Look at the conduit for this info - the lying, America-hating Marxists at the NYT.
Is the Times setting Bush up for a contrived scandal?
Does someone want Chalabi gone and discredited? State department? Clinton holdovers in defense?
Does Chalabi have info implicating high officials in the oil-for-food scam?
Lots of questions and possibilities.
It's very hard to know what to believe. Supposedly the CIA and State Dept. had it in for Chalbi but the Pentagon liked him....or maybe not. Who knows what the truth is in that mess?
Michael Ledeen made hash of this nonsense at National Review Online last week. It is a preposterous charge.
You wrote: "I didn't realize the security breach was this serious."
I am still very skeptical of this sequence. The Iranians are evil, not stupid. Had they learned we had broken their code, the smart thing to do would be to continue to use the old code to feed us bad information. The last thing they would do would be to notify us that they knew we had broken their code--unless the Iranian intelligence goal was to get us to cut off Chalabi. But why would they do that if Chalabi was 'their guy?'
Further, by cutting off funds to Chalabi, we were admitting that we had broken their code. It would really have been better to leave them wondering.
They surely have to have more than this to conclude that Chalabi was at fault.
That said, if Chalabi actually did this, he should be taken down. I am still really skeptical.
About the Time...Lakhdar Brahimi[Algerian Sunni] hits the streets of Bugdud...Chalabi's world turns to $...
Kofi and Brahimi have it in for Chalabi.
Because, uh, he might turn out to be an Undersecretary for Defense.
Watch for resignations.
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