by TChris

TalkLeft has been wondering for some time why the Bush administration has been in bed with Ahmad Chalabi (see, for instance, this and this and this). Despite Chalabi's denials, evidence is growing that Chalabi passed highly classified information to Iran. Now the question is: how did Chalabi get his hands on highly classified information?

Federal investigators now suspect that Mr. Chalabi funneled a wide array of Pentagon and C.I.A. secrets to Iran — much more material than they believe he might have obtained through his political contacts with Americans, they said. "This was not the kind of stuff that he would have gotten by accident," one official said.

Investigators are looking a "handful" of officials, primarily in the Pentagon, who could have passed the information along to Chalabi.

A jail cell in Jordan has already been reserved for Chalabi, but Jordan might have to wait for Chalabi to serve a term in a U.S. prison for espionage.