Who is Duane "Dewey" Clarridge?

The current scandal in Washington remains boringly focused on what Karl Rove said to whom when, because the Democrats conceive of Rove as the evil genius who has cost them election after election (when a more balanced assessment suggests that Rove, while energetic and ruthless, is far from infallible or irreplaceable). The more interesting questions revolve around who was responsible for the operations building up the fraudulent case for the Iraq War that later needed covering up.

For whatever it's worth, one reader has tossed out the name of Duane "Dewey" Clarridge (a.k.a., Dax P. LeBaron), a retired CIA deputy director who was pardoned by George H.W. Bush in 1992 after being indicted for lying to Congress during Iran-Contra.

Clarridge has since done consulting work for Ahmed Chalabi, and helped draw up the 1998 plan for 5,000 "crack soldiers" from Chalabi's INC to invade Iraq with U.S. support, a scheme that Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni derided as the "Bay of Goats."

The LA Times reported 13 months ago that Clarridge was in Iraq, advising Chalabi.

Does anybody know anything more about Clarridge?

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