Wow! The General Accounting Office is investigating Chalabi! Better late than never I suppose. And you'll NEVER GUESS who was the mastermind behind this move... you'll have to read the article, I redacted the name...
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4615823 /
NEWSWEEK has learned that the General Accounting Office, Congress's investigative arm, is opening a probe into the INC's use of U.S. government money the group received in 2001 and 2002. The issue under scrutiny is not whether Chalabi prodded America into a war on false pretenses; it is whether he used U.S. taxpayer dollars and broke U.S. laws or regulations to do so. Did Chalabi and the INC violate the terms of their funding by using U.S. money to sell the public on its anti-Saddam campaign and to lobby Congress?
The investigation could easily become a political football. The GAO inquiry was requested by . A March 3 letter from the senators says the INC's use of U.S. money is "troubling."
Oh, by the way, those GAO guys don't putz around. I wonder how this is going down in the White House? Maybe somebody is gonna have to pay a visit to those GAO mopes and tell 'em who's who and what's what!