ABC (Australia) World Today - Interview per Intel leaks to Iran (Chalabi)

[salin]

found this on War and Piece - will link both the transcripts http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2004/s1116275.htm and Laura Rozen's excerpts/highlights... http://www.warandpiece.com/

May 26, 2004
Here's what Vince Cannistraro, former CIA and DoD intelligence official, told Australia's ABC today about the Chalabi-Iran matter:

VINCENT CANNISTRARO:...Historic rivalries among various agencies and government officials about the value of Chalabi have pretty much been settled in the last few months. President Bush is apparently persuaded that Mr Chalabi is not someone the US can place any further confidence in.

And there are clear indications that Chalabi's head of intelligence and security, a man named Aras Karim Habib, who is a Kurdish Shia, is actually a paid agent of the Iranian intelligence service. There was an arrest warrant issued for Karim a few days ago, and he has apparently escaped to Tehran where he is beyond the reach of US law enforcement.

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VINCENT CANNISTRARO: Oh yeah, I think that's the case, but in this instance, it's not CIA that is the action agency, it is the Federal Bureau of Investigation which is a law enforcement agency, because the evidence has pointed quite clearly, not only the fact that Chalabi might be an agent of influence of the Iranian government and that Karim may be a paid agent of the Iranian intelligence service, but it is shown that there is a leak of classified information from the United States to Iran through Chalabi and Karim and that is the particular point that the FBI is investigating.

more (at either above link)...


I am still inclined to believe that there is something important to this story. Don't know which is more interesting at the moment... tryng to figure out what it is that is important behind the story (eg what was leaked, who passed to to Chalabi and/or Habib, does it indicate other intel that could have been leaked and could such info be (or have been) used against current US efforts on the ground in Iraq? (Now wouldn't that be the end of Neocon influence... ) - OR if watching the sniping and who appears to be backstabbing who is more interesting.