Chalabi Denies Passing Secrets to Iran
Ahmed Chalabi made the round of Sunday news shows this morning and denied passing on sensitive U.S. info to Iran.
“It’s not true. It’s a false charge,” Chalabi said on ABC’s “This Week” television program. “It’s a smear.”
Iran also denies the charges:
Iran denies any intelligence sharing Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said suggestions that Chalabi had passed sensitive U.S. intelligence to Iran were baseless. “We have not received any classified information, neither from Chalabi nor any member of the Iraqi Governing Council,” Asefi said.
Chalabi blamed George Tenet for the smear:
Chalabi said the CIA, which had viewed his Iraqi National Congress group with skepticism for years, was trying to discredit him and that CIA Director George Tenet was behind the accusation that he gave American secrets to Iran. “We never provided any classified information from the U.S. to Iran, and neither I nor anyone in the INC. And that is a charge being put out by George Tenet,” Chalabi said on CNN’s “Late Edition.”
Chalabi challenged the Tenet to bring his information before Congress:
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