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When Democratic members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence presented the final installments of the committee’s long-awaited pre-war intelligence investigation to the press earlier this month in the Senate gallery, they demurred when reporters’ asked them if they intended to pursue possible charges against Bush administration officials whom the Senators said had exaggerated the case for war based on the intelligence available to them. “Nothing else would get done, on Clean Air, FISA, anything,” committee chairman Sen. John “Jay” Rockefeller (D-WV) explained why the committee would not pursue such charges. “If we pressed for that, it would be like impeachment.”
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Why was Langley cut out of clandestine meetings with Iranian informants?
Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek Web Exclusive
Updated: 6:20 PM ET May 8, 2008

The Senate Intelligence Committee is about to release a report that sheds new light on “inappropriate” back-channel contacts between Pentagon officials and a group of Iranian informants—including a key figure from the Iran-contra affair.
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Cheney has tapped Iranian expatriate, arms dealer to surveil discussions with Iran, officials say

Larisa Alexandrovna
Published: Thursday April 20, 2006
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The Department of Defense and Vice President Dick Cheney have retained the services of Iran-Contra arms dealer and discredited intelligence asset Manucher Ghorbanifar as their “man on the ground,” in order to report on any interaction and attempts at negotiations between Iranian officials and US ambassador to Iraq, Zelmay Khalilzad, current and former intelligence officials say.
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