Chalabi under investigation by the GAO

From NEWSWEEK:

He apparently has no regrets that his WMD warnings have turned out to be inaccurate. What matters, Chalabi suggested recently, is that he finally got the regime change he had long sought. "As far as we're concerned we've been entirely successful," he told a British newspaper. "That tyrant Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before is not important."

Some in Congress disagree. 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?

NEWSWEEK also points out the fact that Chalabi was convicted of embezzlement in Jordan in 1992, as well as the fact that both the State Department and the CIA divorced Chalabi after finding him to be a source of spurious material.

"Our guy" in Baghdad. Will we never learn?

There's a lot more there. Go have a read.