Yesterday,
TracieLynn diaried
about a break-in at
SAIC. This excellent diary fell off the face of the earth, but TracieLynn was kind enough to link to it in the comments of a "You missed these" diary by
MaryScott O'Connor. MaryScott's diary coincidentally happened to link to a diary about the CIA and DoD
seizing and classifying 22-year-old public documents of Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson.
OK. So I went and looked at the Scoop Jackson diary, then the SAIC diary, and some things stood out - mostly names:
- Feith is being pushed out.
- SAIC is in "control" [sic] of the new Iraqi government infrastructure.
- Feith got SAIC that contract.
- Feith's buddy Chalabi, worked with SAIC in the form of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA).
He said his relationship with the CPA is now "non-existent."
When asked about that comment, CPA spokesman Dan Senor only noted that Chalabi "worked closely with us over a number of months."
- Chalabi seems to have turned out to be an Iranian spy:
The Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded that for years Iran has used a U.S.-funded arm of Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress to funnel disinformation to the United States and to collect highly sensitive American secrets, according to intelligence sources.
"Iranian intelligence has been manipulating the United States through Chalabi by furnishing through his Information Collection Program (ICP) information to provoke the United Sates into getting rid of Saddam Hussein," said an intelligence source who was briefed on the conclusions of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
The ICP also "kept the Iranians informed about what we were doing" by passing classified U.S. documents and other sensitive information, he said. The ICP has received millions of dollars from the U.S. government over several years.
- In May 2004, Chalabi's house was raided and trashed in search of documents.
Iraqi police and U.S. military personnel who conducted the raid took away computers and documents but arrested no one, Chalabi told reporters at a Baghdad news conference.
- All of a sudden, SAIC has been broken into, and the CIA and DoD seize 22-year-old records of a Senator for whom Feith worked on Foreign policy.
Said Senator was on the Foreign Policy committee, and as such his purview presumably included Iran - a country we're threatening to invade.
OK, so that's kind of intriguing, but maybe not terribly remarkable - UNTIL it turns out that Chalabi might end up either running Iraq, or being the deciding factor in Iyad Allawi, the iterim Prime Minister, remaining in power. Either way, Chalabi could be the key to keeping the elected Shiite majority from actually taking power.
So, now Chalabi, the Iranian spy, who is friends with Feith, and was involved with SAIC on a contract Feith set up, to create the new Iraqi government infrastructure emerges from the ash heap to pull all the strings in Iraq, just as SAIC is burgled (where computers containing information related to investors and employees were stolen), and Feith's former mentor's records are seized, while we're in the middle of getting ready for a war with Iran, the country for whom he spied.
Oh, and did I mention that Chalabi, the Iranian spy, was the supplier of the so-called "faulty intelligence" (some might call it "bullshit," but I thought I'd be nice) that was used to justify invading Iraq?
According to current and former US intelligence analysts and government officials, the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans funneled information, unchallenged, from Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (INC) to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, who in turn passed it on to the White House, suggesting that Iraqis would welcome the American invaders. The Office of Special Plans is led by Abram Shulsky, a hawkish neoconservative ideologue who got his start in politics working alongside Elliott Abrams in Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson's office in the 1970s. [emphasis added] It was set up in fall 2001 as a two-man shop, but it burgeoned into an eighteen-member nerve center of the Pentagon's effort to distort intelligence about Iraq's WMDs and terrorist connections. A great deal of the bad information produced by Shulsky's office, which found its way into speeches by Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, came from Chalabi's INC. Since the INC itself was sustained by its neocon allies in Washington, including the shadow "Central Command" at the American Enterprise Institute, it stands as perhaps the ultimate example of circular reasoning.
[special bonus question: Which Senator's office is mentioned in the article quoted above?]
In another interesting coincidence, it turns out that Rumsfeld's Office of Special Plans, the group set up inside the Pentagon to bypass the real intelligence and professional military folks, thus providing a direct funnel for sending Chalabi's false information to the White House, is run by another of "Scoop" Jackson's foreign policy minions.
Some Questions That Come to Mind:
- What's in those missing documents Chalabi got away with last year?
They seem to have turned into quite the valuable investment - life insurance and political power all wrapped up in one tidy bundle.
- Which of Senator "Scoop" Jackson's records were seized and what did they contain?
- What was stolen from SAIC and by whom?
- Are any of these pieces related to any of the others?
Of course this could be a bunch of totally unrelated coincidental data. Alternatively, it could be the seeds of a cover-up of some minor piffle, or it could be that there's something brewing.
Who knows, but it's sure been interesting staring at the dots...
Update: Chalabi was a no-go. He couldn't snag enough votes from the various groups to get the PM spot, so Allawi, the current US-appointed "interim" PM is making the attempt to remain PM, hoping to peel enough Challabi supporters off of the United Iraqi Alliance and the Kurds to win. Heaven forbid they guy who was actually elected be allowed to become the leader. This is supposed to be a democracy after all.