The Office of Special Plans (OSP)was established under the control of civilian political appointees reporting directly to Wolfy as a way to backdoor corrupted, unvetted intelligence info to the WH and--even more outrageously--to manipulate the American media.
The OSP -- who's main source for "intelligence" was Chalabi and his INC -- packaged up phony, or highly flimsy intell. This was sent up the line without previously passing through the CIA as all intel is supposed to under the 1947 National Security Act.
Further, this OSP had a little ruse they used to influence the gullible New York Times through its biased hack reporter Judith Miller. Chalabi would "leak" bogus stories about Iraqui weapons to Miller as fact. Miller would confirm them as true through OSP.
Here are a couple of recent posts on this from In These Times:
In an interview with All Things Considered, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson, a self-described Republican, said his former colleagues told him the CIA had concluded Iraq did not pose a threat to the United States, with regards to weapons of mass destruction, but that the CIA’s attempt to get their analysis considered by the administration was “thwarted” by the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans (OSP). The OSP is the command center of a group of followers of political philosopher Leo Strauss, who—half-jokingly, but wholly in earnest—refer to themselves as the Cabal.
Johnson, saying it appears “Bush is being misled deliberately” by the OSP, is calling for a congressional investigation. “These individuals that have been operating out of the Office of Special Plans at the Department of Defense, I think, represent a clear and present danger to the United States,” he says.
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... e-mails, leaked to Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, reveal that Ahmad Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National Congress and ally of the Pentagon hard liners in the OSP, was the man the Times turned to for confirmation on Iraq’s alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction. The communications in question focus on a turf squabble between John Burns, the Baghdad bureau chief, and Judith Miller, the paper’s reporter for bioterrorism. In response to a chastisement by Burns over her use of Chalabi as a source, Miller wrote, “I’ve been covering Chalabi for about 10 years, and have done most of the stories about him for our paper, including the long takeout we recently did on him. He has provided most of the front page exclusives on WMD to our paper.” http://www.inthesetimes.org/firststone/ 
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