The WSJ has a piece on the status of the Chalabi inquiry:

More than 17 months after then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice publicly promised a full criminal inquiry, the Federal Bureau of Investigation hasn't interviewed Mr. Chalabi himself or many current and former U.S. government officials thought likely to have information related to the matter, according to lawyers for several of these individuals and others close to the case.

The investigation of Mr. Chalabi, who had been a confidant of senior Defense Department officials before the war in Iraq, remains in the hands of the FBI, with little active interest from local federal prosecutors or the Justice Department, these people said. There also has been no grand-jury involvement in the case. ...

The Chalabi case has been pursued with the same apparent lack of energy as the Niger forgeries investigation, Scott Paltrow observers later down in the piece. Is the issue that Chalabi and Rocco Martino are not subject to US law? And that these cases then are not given higher priority? Even as the country went into a huge war based on information in part funnelled by these people? I wonder.

Posted by Laura at November 7, 2005 10:08 AM