Nothing New?

After the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report was released, Tony Snow said the information it contained was nothing new.

Okay fine, if the administration knew all along that the information given to them by Chalabi was false, why isn’t Chalabi in jail? Why isn’t the man who gave them false information and caused this country to invade another country, being held to answer for what he did? His lies resulted in thousands of deaths among other tragedies. Why does he now hold a position in the Iraqi government? Was that his reward for what he did? Why didn’t the administration look into his motivations at the time he was giving them what now clearly has become false information.

It would seem to me that the administration should have become irate when they discovered that they had been misled into war. In any other walk of life what Chalabi did would be considered a crime, but if you recall, Chalabi was on the US payroll at that time.

Makes no sense to me. Something about all this appears to be very shadowy and seamy, but with this administration, that’s nothing new either.

(For background on Chalabi, here’s a long and very in-depth article written in 2004)