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On the issue of the FBI counterintelligence investigation into who leaked classified US intelligence to Ahmad Chalabi, and who Chalabi leaked it to...Chalabi and ABC's George Stephanopoulos both referred to the FBI investigation on This Week this morning. An FBI source tells me the investigation is not being conducted out of the DC field office, where foreign investigations are normally housed, so it is likely being run out of FBI headquarters.
Chalabi said he would be willing to face trial in the US, but not in Baghdad ("Abu Ghraib" he sniffed). Who is Ahmad Chalabi to tell anyone where he is going to face trial or spend prison time? This is an Iraqi politician demanding full sovereignty for Iraq, insisting that he not be the subject of an Iraqi investigation? And demanding that any future jail time he serve be done in the US?
Meantime, Iran is rising to Chalabi's defense. "We had continuous and permanent dialogue with Chalabi and other members of the Iraqi Governing Council," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said at a press conference, as reported by Fox News. "But spying charges are unfounded and baseless. It's not true at all. We didn't receive any confidential information from Chalabi or any other member of the Iraqi Governing Council." That settles it.