As expected...
...here's Hitchen's defence of Chalabi. It's a total mess, but worth reading just for fun. One strange thing is you could read the whole article and not realise that most of the claims about Chalabi are coming from within the Administration, another is that he ignores most of the recent damaging allegations until the end.When he does get around to them though it's the funniest bit, unfortunately. Nod-nod, wink-wink it's not true.
As to the accusation that Chalabi has endangered American national security by slipping secrets to Tehran, I can only say that three days ago, I broke my usual rule and had a "deep background" meeting with a very "senior administration official." This person, given every opportunity to signal even slightly that I ought to treat the charges seriously, pointedly declined to do so. I thought I should put this on record.
What's staggering is that Hitchens doesn't delve into why the Administration would be turning against him if -- as a "senior administration official" told him -- he shouldn't take the charge seriously. At the very least does he not care about good government? And does he not think that maybe this level of incompetence may be the reason things are going so badly in Iraq?
posted by Matthew @ 5/28/2004 09:01:00 AM
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