Surely not? Can it be that the hawks were so set on Iraq that they left themselves open to manipulation by Iranian Intelligence? If so, should there not be resignations right up the tree, both sides of the Atlantic?
I nominate Blair and every senior intelligence person involved in the dodgy dossiers, which as a cartoon today says, looked dodgy because they’d been translated from the original Persian.
It’s not as if Chalabi was not widely known to be an untrustworthy crook so to believe him and his organisation, which had a bright and shining agenda, took some level of wilful blindness in the first place.