{"id":96,"date":"2004-05-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:53:21","slug":"saloncom-washingtons-chalabi-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/27\/saloncom-washingtons-chalabi-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Salon.com: Washington’s Chalabi nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salon.com has an article announcing that the rock-solid intel
\non Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction is now the subject of an FB
\nI<\/a><\/p>\n

espionage investigation of Republican policy makers. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nAhmed Chalabi was given access to US intelligence and paid cash money.
\nIn return he gave the Whitehouse, et al, intelligence about Iraqi WMD
\nprograms. But the intel was bogus and he may have been an Iranian
\ndouble-agent who fed the Whitehouse whatever it wanted to hear, and what
\nIran needed it to hear. As a result the United States eliminated Iran’s
\ngreatest threat to regional hegemony, and just may turn it into an
\nideologically-sympathetic state.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n—-<\/p>\n

\nWashington’s Chalabi nightmare<\/strong> by Sidney Blumenthal<\/p>\n

\nThe Iraqi neocon favorite, tipped to lead his liberated country
\npost-invasion, has been identified by the CIA and Defense Intelligence
\nAgency as an Iranian double agent, passing secrets to that citadel of the
\n“axis of evil” for decades… Either Chalabi perpetrated the greatest con
\nsince the Trojan horse or he was the agent of influence for the most
\nsuccessful intelligence operation conducted by Iran, or both.<\/p>\n

\nWashington, which was just weeks ago in the grip of neoconservative
\northodoxy and absolute belief in Bush’s inevitability and righteousness,
\nis now in the throes of agonizing events and being ripped apart by
\ninvestigations. Things fall apart; all that was hidden is revealed; all
\nsacred exposed as profane: the military, loyal and lumbering, betrayed and
\nembittered; the general in the field, Lt. Gen. Sanchez, disgraced and
\ncashiered; and the most respected retired generals training their
\nartillery on those who have ill-used the troops, still dying in the field;
\nthe intelligence agencies, a nautilus of chambers, abused and angry, its
\nretired operatives plying their craft with the press corps, seeping
\ndangerous truths; the press, hesitatingly and wobbly, investigating its
\nown falsehoods; the neocons, publicly redoubling their passionate
\nintensity, defending their hero and deceiver Chalabi, privately
\nsquabbling, anxiously awaiting the footsteps of FBI agents; Colin Powell,
\nonce the most acclaimed man in America, embarked on an endless quest to
\nrestore his reputation, damaged above all by his failure of nerve;
\neveryone in the line of fire motioning toward the chain of command,
\nspiraling upward and sideways, until the finger pointing in a phalanx is
\ndirected at the hollow crown.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Salon.com has an article announcing that the rock-solid intel on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction is now the subject of an FB I espionage investigation of Republican policy makers. Ahmed Chalabi was given access to US intelligence and paid cash money. In return he gave the Whitehouse, et al, intelligence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}