Earlier this year, the State Department abruptly stopped funding an INC scheme to collect intelligence inside Iraq. "The INC could only account for $2.5 million out of $4.5 million they received for the program," says a State
Department official. "I can't say that there was evidence of corruption or embezzlement, but $2 million was unaccounted for."
The more the INC began getting into intelligence work, the more the State Department grew uncomfortable funding the program. "The only reason they stopped paying for that program is that the State Department hates
the INC," says a knowledgeable source. Shortly thereafter, the Pentagon picked up the tab. Now, whatever intelligence the INC collects goes straight to the Defense Department, according to spokesman Lt. Col. David Lapan.
"The intelligence guys here get the information first and do the analysis," he says.
Goodman, the former CIA analyst, concurs, saying, "The INC is in the Pentagon every day. But the Pentagon's critics are appalled that intelligence provided by the INC might shape U.S. decisions about going to war against Baghdad. At the CIA and at the State Department, Ahmed Chalabi, the INC's leader, is viewed as the ineffectual head of a self-inflated and corrupt organization skilled at lobbying and public relations, but not much else."
Don't dwell on this other than to realize that Chalabi is a liar. Everything out
of his mouth is fruit from the poisoned tree-and he's the guy Cheney picked to sell the US an unnecessary war.
Just how bad is Chalabi? Back in 2004 Chalabi cooperated with Iran to the
detriment of the US and then National security adviser Condoleezza Rice promised Congress a full investigation into allegations that an Iraqi politician supported by the Pentagon told Iran the United States had broken the code it used for secret communications, and U.S. officials said the revelation destroyed an important source of intelligence.
Of course Chalabi, whose exile group received more than $40 million in U.S.
payments over the years, denied that he disclosed secrets to Iran, but then he's an habitual liar who is lying for big bucks.
Guess what Feith is noted for other than squealing on his bosses? He stonewalled the Senate investigation of his lies.
We all know that Congress wanted to expose the politicization of facts to lure an unwilling world into "Operation Iraqi Freedom". The Raw Story article "Pentagon investigation of Iraq war hawk stalling Senate inquiry into pre-war Iraq intelligence" at click here states
"The second part of the Senate investigation into bungled pre-war Iraq intelligence is still being held up by an internal Pentagon investigation of Douglas Feith, one of the war's leading architects, RAW STORY has learned."
When bureaucrats investigate each other nothing can get accomplished. When you have a pathological liar with the help of the president behind you it is no wonder getting anything from Feith is reminiscent of Kafka's "The Trial".
Most of the time Feith stonewalled the Senate was when the GOP was in charge. Now the GOP uses tired old phrases about how we have too many important matters to deal with rather than dredging up the past. What is more important than finding out how the carefully crafted analysis of our intelligence agencies regarding Iraq's lack of "imminent threat" WMD was perverted into driving us into war?
Feith also has more than one black mark on his record "As previously reported by Raw Story, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) inquiry-titled Phase II-is waiting on a report from the Pentagon inspector general as to Feith's alleged role in manipulating pre-war intelligence to support a case for war. Feith, who is also being probed by the FBI for his role in an Israeli spy case, resigned in January 2005.
More broadly, a RAW STORY investigation has found that Feith's access to
classified information and his alleged wrongdoing can likely be laid at the feet of more senior officials in the Bush Administration-namely Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld-who would have had to have overruled Pentagon background checks to reissue Feith's clearances after he was booted from the National Security Council for allegations of espionage in the mid 1980s."
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