5.27.2004

Neoconned: Sidney Blumenthal writes on an investigation that's getting little play in the US mainstream press: which neocon Bush advisor(s) leaked classified information to Ahmed Chalabi, a man "identified by the CIA and Defence Intelligence Agency as an Iranian double-agent, passing secrets to that citadel of the 'axis of evil' for decades," and why did the Bush administration cover up this fact? Robert Scheer asks, "We might start investigating which Bush official arranged for this hustler — already on the lam for a decade from major banking fraud convictions in Jordan — to sit behind First Lady Laura Bush during this year's State of the Union speech. Was the Secret Service watching her purse?"

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