Ahmed Chalabi: Five Years Later

The Iraq war is five years old, the U.S. death toll has hit 4,000, and media coverage has declined, “from an average of 15% of news output last August to just 3% in February this year,” according to a Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism study.

Meanwhile, NBC News investigative producer Aram Roston has a book out on the man who many say “duped” journalists in the months leading to war: Ahmad Chalabi.

From a Roston interview with TVNewser:

“What most of the TV and print reporters weren’t really aware of was that Chalabi’s people used U.S.

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