]         How could such poor intelligence rise all the
] way to the top of the Bush administration? The original
] material came from the Iraqi National Congress, the
] umbrella group of exiles headed by Ahmed Chalabi, the
] former banker who now heads Iraq%u2019s governing
] council. Chalabi%u2019s material found its way up to the
] highest levels of U.S. policymaking%u2014and the White
] House script%u2014through three routes, according to
] officials present at the CIA review.

Not that any of this is going to come as a shock to anyone...

Credibility Gap