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Bill Delahunt: People are thirsting for respectful discourse about these issues because they are so profoundly important... My…

On the recordJuly 6, 2004
People are thirsting for respectful discourse about these issues because they are so profoundly important... My colleague mentioned Ahmed Chalabi earlier. How many people in this Chamber, in this country, know of Ahmed Chalabi; and yet many, many in the world, in the intelligence community, believe that he is as responsible as any single individual for the faulty intelligence that led us into this war, a man, by the way, who is a convicted felon, who was an individual who was convicted of embezzlement in Jordan and reports now indicate is being investigated for the dissemination of sensitive information to a potential adversary in Iran.
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts

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Discussing the need for respectful discourse on important issues and mentioning Ahmed Chalabi's role in intelligence.

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