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Originally posted by prb
What about the timing of Tenet's resignation announcement? Announced the same day that it was disclosed in the press that Chalabi was passing on intelligence secrets to the Iranians. Iran was told by our man Chalabi that the CIA had cracked Iran's coded intelligence communications. Someone high up within the CIA or WH must have spilled the beans to Chalabi.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/03/po...rint&position=
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Officials would not identify who has taken polygraph examinations or even who has been interviewed by F.B.I. counterespionage agents. It could not be determined whether anyone has declined to submit to a polygraph test.
No one has been charged with any wrongdoing or identified as a suspect, but officials familiar with the investigation say that they are working through a list of people and are likely to interview senior Pentagon officials.
The F.B.I. is looking at officials who both knew of the code-breaking operation and had dealings with Mr. Chalabi, either in Washington or Baghdad, the government officials said. Information about code-breaking work is considered among the most confidential material in the government and is handled under tight security and with very limited access.
But a wider circle of officials could have inferred from intelligence reports about Iran that the United States had access to the internal communications of Iran's spy service, intelligence officials said. That may make it difficult to identify the source of any leak.
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"Senior Pentagon officials" is a pretty exclusive club, and as the article notes, even if someone didn't know for a fact that Iranian codes were compromised, they could have inferred that fact from other intelligence. I also heard that Chalabi heard about it from a "drunk" CIA analyst. There's no telling, but it's common knowledge that Chalabi was closely connected to a number of high ranking Pentagon and White House officials.