Chalabi claims he didn't mislead U.S.

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These days, the bigger the slime-ball, the greater the chance you will be wined in dined at the White House. Chalabi is a case in point.

"...Many Democrats and critics of the administration's conduct of the war in Iraq expressed dismay that Chalabi was making the rounds within the administration without having to confront questions from Congress about whether he knowingly made faulty claims about the dangers posed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq and later passed secrets to Iran.

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said that Chalabi's private appearance today on Capitol Hill should instead be public, and that he should be put under oath "to answer questions about his role in providing false intelligence to the United States ... "

Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Richard Durbin, D-Ill., wrote to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, asking if the FBI planned to interview Chalabi while he was in the U.S.

"If not, why not?" the senators asked in their letter...."