You dont think Tenet was the Drunk that told Chabili about the US had broken Irans code? .... Who else so high would know that ?
No way!
I'm not so certain I believe that Chalabi story at all.
Consider this:
Presumably Chalabi told Iran that the US had broken their secret code.
Then Iran used the same secret code to communicate with their allies and our enemies that we had broken the code.
Iranian regime members may not be rocket scientists may not be rocket scientists, but they are not stupid either.
No, but it could have been a CIA asset. Tenet would figure that to be a final straw. I think the man is fiercely loyal to President Bush and I think he would take anything that would further discredit the agency or President Bush's administration in a very personal way. I can hear him explaining what happened to President Bush, and I can hear President Bush trying to talk him out of it, but a man with that kind of pride and loyalty would feel tremendous guilt even though he, personally, had nothing to do with it.
Everyone goes on and on about him being a democrat, I think that has nothing to do with it, I think the man did a very good job with very limited resources (before Bush) and has helped this country as much as any man could. I'm sorry he's leaving, I only hope he does some house cleaning before he leaves.
Chalabi, and any of his close associates, could strongly infer that that code had been broken by things that they had been told as members of the new Iraq government.
I am very surprised at how well kept the secrets have been during our time after the BASH in Iraq. Heck, that whole governing council managed to keep the SH capture for over half a day!
It only takes a very few and minor facts to establish such suspicions of code-breaking, or other items the military works so hard to keep secret. For those high up in the Iraq council it is clear that they needed some of that info. An unscrupulous person there would then be able to relay such solid suspicions to Iran. I see no reason for anybody to "blame" Tenet or anybody else for letting that cat out of the bag. Unfortunately, those types of secrets are very fleeting, and easy to detect the truth. No "fall guy" is needed here.
It's enough for me that Chalabi or someone close to him apparently had a hand in directly leaking that info.
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