Perhaps the CIA was more on top of things than the State Dept. It wouldn't be a surprise, even given the Clinton Admin/Democrat Party/Gorelick hamstringing.
The State Department hated Chalabi even more than the CIA, according to reports that I've seen.
Then who was carrying HIS water? A bureacratic lamp-post like Bremmer?
If the State Department is truly running the show in Iraq now, we're completely doomed, and we may as well just pull everyone out and let them start killing each other.