Typical Rumsfeld Bullshit.

[mburbank]

If Chalabi ratted us out to Iran, he's a traitor. But some insider gave him the classified secrets he supposedly leaked. Chalabi has always been the pentagons pet, and a particular Neocon darling. Rummy claims he doesn't even know if an investigation is going on.

This is typical for the administration and particularly Rumsfeld. He leaves you to choose between his being a liar, or grossly incompetant and not giving a shit, which he presents a if it's the way the job is supposed to be done, nothing out of the ordinary. As the Republicans used to say, "Where's the outrage"?




SINGAPORE (AFP) - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he did not know if Pentagon (news - web sites) officials had been interviewed as part of an investigation into an alleged leak of classified information to former Iraqi ally Ahmed Chalabi.


The New York Times, citing US intelligence officials, reported Wednesday that Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National Congress, disclosed to an Iranian official that the United States had broken the secret communications code of Iran's intelligence services.

The official, the chief in Baghdad of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, reported in an intercepted cable that Chalabi had said one of "them" -- referring to the Americans -- revealed the code-breaking operation, and that the American was drunk.

Asked whether any Pentagon officials had been interviewed by the FBI (news - web sites) in the case, Rumsfeld said: "You know there are things going on all the time. I have heard nothing that anyone has been interviewed."

Rumsfeld said that while he was aware of the press reports that an investigation was underway, he had no personal knowledge of it.

"I don't know that there is an investigation," he said. "I said I've read that in the press. If there is one then that's a good thing because people ought to be investigating possible wrongdoing, if there has been wrongdoing."

Chalabi was a long-time favorite of the Pentagon, which paid him 340,000 dollars a month to provide intelligence to the US Defense Intelligence Agency.

Those payments were ended last month just before US officials revealed that Chalabi was suspected of passing sensitive information to Iran.

[Cosmo Electrolux]

Hey! I'll give the Pentagon all of the goddamned intelligence they want for $340,000 bux a month. Shit, I'll clean the microwave in the break room and change out the urinal cakes too....fuck!

[Brandon]

And, as usual, the administration pretends like they didn't even know him.

Even though he sat behind fucking Laura Bush at the State of the Union Address.