Hannah was White House channel for Chalabi intel?

Knight Ridder is good. First off, they were the only major media press outlet anywhere that featured skepticism of the WMD claims as their primary story line. Second, they always seem to do reporting based on what they actually uncover, rather than just reporting what one side says and how the other side reacts. Third, because of the first two, they occasionally come out with gems like this.

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney replaced I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby as his national security adviser on Monday with an aide identified by a former Iraqi exile group as the White House official to whom it fed information on Iraq that turned out to be erroneous. .....

The White House announced on Monday the elevation of John Hannah to replace Libby as Cheney's national security adviser. ......

The vice president's office has previously denied that Hannah received INC information. Cheney's office didn't respond immediately to questions Monday about Hannah and Addington.

The INC's leader, Ahmad Chalabi, now a deputy prime minister in Iraq, was close to Cheney and other senior administration architects of the invasion. The INC supplied Iraqi defectors whose information turned out to be false. It has insisted that it tried its best to verify defectors' claims before passing them to the United States.

On June 26, 2002, the INC wrote a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee staff identifying Hannah as the White House recipient of information gathered by the group through a U.S.-funded effort called the Information Collection Program.

Go. Read it all. It's got specific examples of bad intel, and where they appeared. Turns out Salman Pak, the "terror" base with the disabled 737 was used to train anti-terrorist commandos.