We already know that in the years just before the invasion of Iraq, Randy Scheunemann, now John McCain’s top foreign policy aide, was part of the circle of advisors and operatives around Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi exile who used bogus intelligence to sell the war. Over the last few days we’ve spoken to associates of Chalabi’s and Scheunemann’s from those years to fill out the picture of the working relationship between the two men.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=175557