Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Wednesday with Iraq's controversial Deputy Prime Minister. Mr. Chalabi is denying charges he provided U.S. officials with faulty information about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programs.
Mr. Chalabi is meeting senior Bush administration officials amid a background of controversy in Washington over his role prior to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Democratic lawmakers say they would like Mr. Chalabi to answer charges that, as an Iraqi exile figure prior to the war, he provided U.S. officials with inflated or outright false information about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs that prompted the decision to invade.
In a talk with reporters after the half-hour meeting with Secretary Rice, Mr. Chalabi flatly denied he was responsible for providing false intelligence, while brushing aside another question about his pre-war role, saying the focus should be on the situation in Iraq now.
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