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To: dumbmoney who wrote (135316)	6/2/2004 10:45:27 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi leader and former ally of the Bush administration, disclosed to an Iranian official that the United States had broken the secret communications code of Iran's intelligence service, betraying one of Washington's most valuable sources of information about Iran, according to United States intelligence officials. Oh man.. if this is true, we're talking a serious "mole hunt". That kind of information is only available at the highest levels of government and it should be relatively easy to discover who had sufficient access to that information, combined with connections to Chalabi.. Talk about grievous harm.. This could rival the Aldrich Ames case.. On the other hand, it could be a sophisticated counter-intelligence operation aimed at forcing the Iranians to doubt the secureness of their communications networks.. And re-keying and replacing all of those systems costs a lot of money and takes a lot of time.. It also would launch a mole hunt within the Iranian intelligence service that could cripple their effectiveness and initiate a backlash, internal purge, and power struggle.. VERY INTERESTING... Hawk