Conservative Allies Take Chalabi Case to the White House

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/29/politics/29CHAL.html?pagewanted=print&position=

Influential outside advisers to the Bush administration who support the Iraqi exile leader Ahmad Chalabi are pressing the White House to stop what one has called a "smear campaign" against Mr. Chalabi, whose Baghdad home and offices were ransacked last week in an American-supported raid.

Last Saturday, several of these Chalabi supporters said, a small delegation of them marched into the West Wing office of Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, to complain about the administration's abrupt change of heart about Mr. Chalabi and to register their concerns about the course of the war in Iraq. The group included Richard N. Perle, the former chairman of a Pentagon advisory group, and R. James Woolsey, director of central intelligence under President Bill Clinton.

Members of the group, who had requested the meeting, told Ms. Rice that they were incensed at what they view as the vilification of Mr. Chalabi, a favorite of conservatives who is now central to an F.B.I. investigation into who in the American government might have given him highly classified information that he is suspected of turning over to Iran.

Mr. Chalabi has denied that he provided Iran with any classified information.

The session with Ms. Rice was one sign of the turmoil that Mr. Chalabi's travails have produced within an influential corner of Washington, where Mr. Chalabi is still seen as a potential leader of Iraq.

Article later states Newt Gingrich was also there.

[Disturbed]

1. Chalib vs Tenet

I'd like to witness the debate between them in front of the Sentate under oath, except for the fact that this would make them both immune for criminal prosecution. It is a bit strange not to have some public rebutal from Tenet.

[dusty64]

2. More extreme rightwingers

supporting treason. Shout it from the rooftops.

[mom cat]

3. Oh. I thought that Gingrich had been Newt-turd.

[fishnfla]

4. You know, for once, I bet Condi told them bastards to 'fuck off'

She has been driving the lemon they sold her, and us, all 'round the planet, you would think she would know when she has been sold a bill of bullgoods...

[UpInArms]

5. signers on PNAC letter to Clinton 1/26/98

Elliott Abrams   Richard L. Armitage   William J. Bennett

Jeffrey Bergner   John Bolton   Paula Dobriansky

Francis Fukuyama   Robert Kagan   Zalmay Khalilzad

William Kristol   Richard Perle   Peter W. Rodman

Donald Rumsfeld   William Schneider, Jr.   Vin Weber

Paul Wolfowitz   R. James Woolsey   Robert B. Zoellick

[acmavm]

6. Could it be that the bush* administration is having a little civil war of

their own? These crazy a******* have no idea which way is up, and they're at each other's throats.

Aren't we lucky to have such a distinguished bunch of buffoons running our government? These clowns make the Marx Brothers look like dramatic actors. Holy crap.