"Uriah Heep" Chalabi was running the classic "Intelligence for sale" scam. Every con artist and their cousin came crawling out of the woodwork to cash in. The only law that prevails in that part of the world is socialistic Darwinism: "survival of the fittest" .......the most cunning arm themselves any way they can in order to destroy the weak.
State and CIA were on to him but their assessments of Chalabi were summarily dismissed by Dept of Defense honchos, and a faction that despises the US State Department.
Chalabi was seen as a peddler hawking self-serving information who was obsessed with his own financial motives. He was a constant lobbyist on Capitol Hill and helped get a bill passed that paid him gargantuan US tax dollars totalling some $92 million. He was receiving $340,000 of our tax dollars a month til recently.
Savvy people know denizens of the Mideast cesspool crawl the globe as agents, double agents and triple agents, selling information to the highest bidder. They switch loyalties easily-----when it becomes more profitable.
Chalabi's London-based exiles, organized as the INC, facilitated the effort to feed bogus intelligence to the Pentagon and the CIA. After the US invaded Iraq, our military could not even find the alleged agent network Chalabi said he ran. Chalabi's explanation?.." They are in hiding"..........
One more sign Chalabi was untrustworthy, but it came too late.