Hon. Joseph M. Hoeffel: “Yes. All the firms are identified, the monthly retainers. It is an interesting article. It is a million-dollar industry.”

The favorite of the State Department is Adnan Pachachi, who is another member of the current interim government in Iraq as Chalabi is. And, according to Roll Call, the favorite of the CIA is Ayad Allawi, also a member of the Iraqi…

We have talked quite a bit tonight about Ahmed Chalabi, and rightly so; but he is not apparently the only favorite of the American government involved in positioning themselves for leadership in Iraq. In today's Roll Call, one of the Hill…

If we just focus on the prison scandal for a minute and see the failures of leadership there... we cannot stay the course in Iraq. We have to change the course in Iraq.

But, Mr. Speaker, I must tell my colleague that not everybody was being conned. The CIA saw through Chalabi, the State Department saw through Chalabi, and yet the civilian leadership of the Pentagon did not.