Tim Russert falsely claimed "no evidence that Mr. Chalabi was associated with Curveball"

On the April 10 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, host Tim Russert falsely claimed that "there's no evidence" that Ahmed Chalabi, former Iraqi exile and head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), "was associated with Curveball," a relative of a top Chalabi aide who became the most influential source for U.S. intelligence on Iraq's biological weapons program. In fact, the recently released Robb-Silberman report on intelligence regarding weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and independent news reporting indicate a clear connection between Chalabi and Curveball: U.S. intelligence first encountered Curveball's fabricated claims about Iraq's biological weapons via German intelligence, and it was Chalabi's INC that originally provided Curveball to the Germans.