Hitchens claims Chalabi may have broken US code on his own. Experts LOL.

[BurtWorm]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/006973.php

A little earlier this evening I linked to this post from young DC blogger Kris Lofgren who got into the AEI Chalabi speech today and managed to score a few moments of quality time with Christopher Hitchens to boot.

In his post he tells us ...

Hitchens then turned the subject back to Chalabi, his good friend. I asked him if he thought Chalabi had been passing American intelligence to the Iranians. "No," he insisted. "It's possible that with his training, you know, at Chicago that with his own ability he was able to crack the codes. He is a mathematical genius. His expertise is cryptology. It is possible that he broke the codes himself." (This is a paraphrase since I was walking down M Street and crossing Connecticut Avenue all while being amazed that I was having an actual conversation with Christopher Hitchens at the time). Now, I don't believe this for one second. Why would Chalabi be trying to break American codes in his spare time anyway? Who does that if they are friendly to us? Suspicious, I say.



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Then TPM Reader TT wrote in with even more laughs ...

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I am a research mathematician who works in an areas pretty close to cryptology.

Quite simply, there is no way to take anything Hitchens says seriously ever again. Next to him, Scotty Mac is a paragon of credibility.

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. I think I figured out how

Somebody in the White House gave him a PF Flyer Decoder Ring!

[bahrbearian]

3. Do you think Jeff Gannon could have passed it on to the WH?

[WilliamPitt]

2. Chalabi broke our intelligence encryptions?

Wow. Get him a gig at NSA.

:shaking head:

[ET Awful]

4. Hitchens has confused Chalabi with John Nash

:)

[lovuian]

5. Chalibi is a TRAITOR and the white house wines & dines him!!!

after knowing he is a traitor... that kinda says it all!!!

[Fridays Child]

6. The only amazing thing about walking down the street with Hitchens...

...is that the young blogger didn't have to hold that lunatic's drunken ass upright.

[Roland99]

7. AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!! Hitchens just blew that "Intellectual" Award

into smithereens with that brain-dead statement.


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[Burried News]

8. The Myths of Ahmed Chalabi - where is Scott Speicher - just before

the war he floated a story that Scott was seen outside Baghdad - gee let's go rescue Scott.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0306-01.htm
"To give wider credibility to this dubious narrative, Chalabi planted stories in mainstream newspapers such as the New York Times, stories that were then quoted as independent corroborative evidence by administration officials. The paper's now much-criticized specialist on WMD, Judith Miller, has acknowledged her 10-year association with Chalabi."

There was an article about two years ago that Chalabi planted over a 100 stories to advance the war on Iraq (with millions of US Taxpayer dollars). I believe the original article was on a Knight Ridder website.