On Hill, Rice Pledges Probe Of Alleged Chalabi Leak

An investigation by the FBI was launched several weeks ago, officials said, after the United States intercepted a secret message from an Iranian intelligence agent in Baghdad who told his superiors in Tehran that Chalabi had revealed that Americans had cracked Iran's encryption code. The communication said a drunken American official gave Chalabi the information. At least five news organizations were tipped off to the inquiry over the past week but had held off publishing or broadcasting stories at the request of national security officials. The Washington Post was not among them.

////////// I think the Washington Post felt real bad about not being one of the first papers given a lead on this story.

So how long before the media is saying that it was Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney, or one of the other "usual suspects" leaked the information to Chalabi?

The FBI is working to find out who first revealed that the United States had broken the code, and whether Chalabi was involved in passing on the information to Iran, officials said. Most of the officials interviewed for this article would speak only on the condition of anonymity because the investigation involves classified information.

One intelligence official said the FBI was conducting polygraph examinations. But senior officials at the Pentagon said they knew of no one there who had been interviewed by the FBI or who had been requested to submit to an interview. They also said the FBI had not informed top Pentagon authorities of plans to question any Defense Department employee in Washington.

A senior government official said yesterday that the investigation is "focusing on a person in Baghdad." Another official said "my sense is the FBI has a pretty good idea" who gave Chalabi the information.

As for how many might have known that Iran's code may have been broken, the senior government official said the number could be large.

"Every day, hundreds and even thousands of people read intelligence reports," the official said. "These people can deduce from reading intelligence reports that we're reading the mail of another country."

Another question yesterday was who leaked word of the intercepted Iranian message referring to Chalabi to reporters in Washington. "Only a handful of people knew about this specific intercept, and most of them were in the White House," one U.S. official said. "A few senior people at the Pentagon had been briefed on it. But very few people in the U.S. government had actually seen the piece of paper describing the intercept."

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a lot of people knew about the iranian code being broken but only a few people in the white house knew about the specific intercept. hmmm

Ugh, bad grammar.

So how long before the media is starts saying that it was Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney, or one of the other "usual suspects" that leaked the information to Chalabi?

How promising! Another investigation of operatives effecting global security within the executive branch. At least I know they are working on relevent matters.

No FBI investigations on Bush getting sexed up interns jobs thru his cabinet officials who serve on corporate boards, who used what sink and for what, and 69 things to do with a cigar.........

if the story is true is very unusual that they would be revealing that code had been broken.

it has to mean that there is a major league shift of US policy in the works...or in any case that the neo cons associated with chalabi are in deep do do.

Maybe the code wasn't broken and we needed to shut down Iran's communications network for a while?

When adults are in charge, especially ones who's daddy ran the CIA, some things become fodder for the grist mill for strategery purposes.

Maybe the code wasn't broken and we needed to shut down Iran's communications network for a while?
When adults are in charge, especially ones who's daddy ran the CIA, some things become fodder for the grist mill for strategery purposes.
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perhaps but a couple of Chalabi's aids have fled Iraq including his intelligence chief. According to this article
http://www.masnet.org/articleinterest.asp?id=1251
One of them, Aras Karim Habib, the I.N.C.’s intelligence chief, escaped just before the serving of an arrest warrant. He is under investigation for passing classified U.S. government information to Iran