How Chalabi Played the Press 

How Chalabi Played the Press

CJR via Laura Rozen.

Short response from a long list of reporters and journalists who have been caught reporting Chalabi's crap: I either had my own independent sources for this crap, which I now have trouble recalling, or if the INC was my only source, I made that clear. "Get big tobacco" hero Lowell Bergman says "we had no way of getting in to Iraq ourselves," so Frontline relied on INC-supplied defectors. "A lot of questions remain unanswered."

Once again: Chalabi received over $30 million from the U.S. government from 2000 to 2003 alone.

UPDATE: While we're at it, there's also the story of how Chalabi "gamed" the intelligence services of a half dozen or more countries. As Kevin Drum says, we need to update the phrase "useful idiots."