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Cush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 05:38 PM
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CBS News: Chalabi Passed "Highly Sensitive Info" to Iran
On now, saying that the info he passes on to them was so sensitive, that only a handful of people (High Rankings Officials) knew about it

The man he met with was/is an Intel Officier from the 'darkside' of the regime and is involved with Covert anti-us Activites
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Malva Zebrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 05:40 PM
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1. I know this is silly
but when I read this, I broke out in giggles--out of anxiety. It really at this point in time, seems funny.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 05:43 PM
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2. WTF?!
I'd love to know which idiotic chickenhawk in bu$h's maladministration decided to pass 'highly sensitive info' to Chalabi!

:nuke:
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Leilani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 05:46 PM
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3. Exactly what I was wondering
If Chalabi does not have a security clearance to receive this info, then laws were broken.
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nefarious Donating Member (132 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 05:47 PM
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4. How did the Bush cabal ever get into bed with this greedy crook?
Even we here at DU expect Bush Co. to have higher standards than that.

Or is it Mr. Chalabi has a huge insider knowledge of the wrong doings at BCCI and can implicate some key members of Bush Co., so they bought his silence with a plan to make him King of Iraq?
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 05:57 PM
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8. I never expect Bush and Co. to have higher standards. The first
time I saw Chalabi I knew he was a crook and fits well with this administration.
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NormanConquest Donating Member (346 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:11 PM
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13. He's just like the Bush family...
carrying on the proud family tradition of playing both sides of the aisle, just like grandpappy Prescott did...trading with the Nazis while profiteering on the home front.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 05:49 PM
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5. It's incredible! They said state secrets were passed
They said it came from the highest levels of government. So Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz? - passed secrets to Chalabi who passed them to Iran. I think they used the word "grave." WHAT could it be? I have a feeling we're going to find out. It's unbelievable, how low this administation will sink. It's not enough to out a CIA agent, now they are sharing STATE SECRETS with Chalabi, a known nutcase.
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TomNickell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 05:52 PM
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6. Bush's Watergate?
There could be a really big story here......
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 05:55 PM
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7. link ---->
<snip>

Senior U.S. officials have told 60 Minutes Correspondent Lesley Stahl that they have evidence Chalabi has been passing highly classified U.S. intelligence to Iran. The evidence shows that Chalabi personally gave Iranian intelligence officers information so sensitive that if revealed it could, quote, "get Americans killed." The evidence is said to be "rock solid."

On Friday, Stahl reported that senior intelligence officials stress the information Ahmad Chalibi is alleged to have passed on to Iran is of such a seriously sensitive nature, the result of full disclosure could be highly damaging to U.S. security. The information involves secrets that were held by only a handful of very senior U.S. officials, says Stahl.

Meanwhile, Stahl reports that "grave concerns" about the true nature of Chalabi's relationship with Iran started after the U.S. obtained "undeniable intelligence" that Chalabi met with a senior Iranian intelligence, a "nefarious figure from the dark side of the regime - an individual with a direct hand in covert operations directed against the United States."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/20/iraq/main618637.shtml
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Plaid Adder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:04 PM
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9. What is this, pre-emptive blowback?
They turn on him before he turns on them?

I hear American troops raided his house the other day. I mean is this the craziest fucking war that has ever been fought, or what?

:wtf:

The Plaid Adder
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:09 PM
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11. Most important is, he received the info from "very senior officials."
The information involves secrets that were held by only a handful of very senior U.S. officials, says Stahl.

Really? Which ones?!
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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:09 PM
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10. Most important: Why would Bush/et al give secrets to Chalabi?
Why would they give secrets to Chalabi, a convicted embezzler and a Shiite?

They won't tell me any secrets. They won't tell you any secrets. Yet they easily give dangerous and compromising secrets to Chalabi?

Another intelligence "failure" or are we looking at the beginnings of the excuse Bush wants to use to attack Iran? I think the latter.

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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:09 PM
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12. Does Bush realize how serious this is?
Chalabi is greasing the axel of evil!
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:23 PM
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15. Chalabi will do whatever he can
to bring his 'friends' down with him.

Seems he took a lot of documents. That's why they raided his house and took some boxes out. So not only did the traitors in our government tell Chalabi state secrets, it seems someone let him have access to some very sensitive documents.

I wonder when how long before W is pulling him out of his hidey hole? I heard there's room in Saddam's old hole.

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kayell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 06:20 PM
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14. I want the names of those "high ranking officials"
Sounds like they were committing some treason.
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banana republican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 07:37 PM
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16. it's the location of
the WMD that bush has been hiding in iraq
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 07:50 PM
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17. Oh, great.
To US, he gives bullshit. To the freakin' IRANIANS, he gives the real goods. Way to go Wolfowitz. When can we charge you with treason?
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