A New York Sun report that Ahmad Chalabi may now be the Bush Administration’s point man in reaching out to Syria did not go unnoticed at today’s White House briefing. The piece cited “an American diplomat” as saying that Chalabi “was gauging the interest of the Assad regime in a limited rapprochement with America.”
Tony Snow professed to not know of any recent U.S. activity with Chalabi, the Iraqi figure known for flirting with American neocons, the Iranians, and the truth with equal abandon, but hedged a bit on what Chalabi might be doing or claiming: “There are also times when people will make claims about what they’re doing and the auspices under which they’re doing it. And sometimes they’re right, sometimes they’re wrong.”
