It's hard to keep all those investigations straight. Now UPI's Richard Sale is reporting yet another one -- an alleged DIA investigation of the Counter-Terrorism Evaluation Group which was created after September 11 by Doug Feith. "The investigation is trying to determine if the two-man unit leaked sensitive CIA and Pentagon intercepts to the U.S.-funded Iraqi National Congress, which passed them on to the government of Iran, Pentagon and U.S. intelligence officials said," Sale reports. But the article spends much more time detailing what we pretty much already know -- this group's repeated briefing of officials with the White House and Office of the Vice President, outside of normal intelligence channels. And the DIA spokesman tells Sale it's not accurate to say it's conducting an investigation per se. Update: A reader who wishes to remain anonymous suggests this story is based on "intel rumor" more than fact, a rumor he suspects is sourced by Pat Lang, the former DIA official . . .

Posted by Laura at August 1, 2004 08:53 PM