Everything said, by the left, about the importance of Chalabi is nothing but their own spin; not the actual views of our intelligence community. Chalabi, and other Iraq exiles gave information to our intelligence agencies. None of it was taken at face value, none of it was given preference over the totality of the rest of our intelligence. Input, yes, absolute definitive truth, no.
The truth is that anyone the "neocons" ever talked to is determined, as a religious belief by the left, that they were working with those "neocons" to subvert the "facts" to the "neocon" agenda. As if such an agenda was needed to have good reasons to go after Saddam.
Yes. The best evidence of that is the media's repeated claim that Chalabi was the source of the flawed source, "Curveball". Although it's been known for some time, German intel provided him to us, that is rarely reported and the sliming of Chalabi continues.