“The Department of Defense is continuing to pay millions of dollars for information from the former Iraqi opposition group that produced some of the exaggerated and fabricated intelligence President Bush used to argue his case for war. The Pentagon has set aside between $3 million and $4 million this year for the Information Collection Program of the Iraqi National Congress, or INC, led by Ahmed Chalabi, said two senior U.S. officials and a U.S. defense official.”
– Jonathan S. Landay, Warren P. Strobel and John Walcott, “Officials: US Still Paying Millions to Group that Provided False Iraqi Intelligence,” Knight-Ridder, Feb. 22, 2004