Chalabi Returns to be Feted by the AEI

From the Wall Street Journal :

As Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi arrives this week in Washington for talks, there is little sign of progress in a federal investigation of allegations that he once leaked U.S. intelligence secrets to Iran.

More than 17 months after then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice publicly promised a full criminal inquiry, the Federal Bureau of Investigation hasn't interviewed Mr. Chalabi himself or many current and former U.S. government officials thought likely to have information related to the matter, according to lawyers for several of these individuals and others close to the case.

The investigation of Mr. Chalabi, who had been a confidant of senior Defense Department officials before the war in Iraq, remains in the hands of the FBI, with little active interest from local federal prosecutors or the Justice Department, these people said. There also has been no grand-jury involvement in the case.

What the Journal didn't say is that Chalabi is coming to be the guest of honor at the American Enterprise Institute. Why? This is the man that deliberately gave us bogus information leading us to an unnecessary war, not to mention the possibility he may have turned over our secrets to the Iranians (remember, he was Judy Miller's poster boy). Yet he still holds power in Iraq and is still among the in-group with the neo-cons in Washington. When will people ever learn?