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2004-09-08 22:58 | User Profile

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Pollardites in the Pentagon?

By Patrick J. Buchanan September 8, 2004

In 1987, Jonathan Pollard, U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, was imprisoned for life for selling a roomful of U.S. secret documents to Israel. Tel Aviv refused to return them. At the Clinton-Netanyahu summit at Wye River, Pollard became a subject of contention.

"Bibi" Netanyahu wanted to fly the American traitor back to Israel where he is a hero. Clinton balked. CIA's George Tenet would resign, Clinton told Netanyahu, if he pardoned Pollard.

This history is recalled for a reason. Washington today is rife with reports the FBI has been investigating whether or not a nest of Pollardites inside the Pentagon has been funneling secrets, through the Israeli lobby AIPAC, to the Reno Road embassy and on to Sharon.

Suspected mole Larry Franklin, a Pentagon Iranian analyst, was reportedly sighted trying to hand over to an AIPAC official a draft copy of a National Security Presidential Directive on Iran. With the mullahs apparently pursuing atomic bombs, Israel wants the United States to attack, denuclearize and bring down its No. 1 enemy, the regime in Tehran.

Franklin popped up on FBI radar when he joined a breakfast meeting between an AIPAC man and an Israeli diplomat. AIPAC had been under FBI surveillance for over two years as a probable conduit to Israel of the fruits of espionage against the United States.

Franklin, a devout Catholic and hawk on Iran, is now said to be cooperating with the FBI. His boss, William Luti, is the deputy to the Pentagon's No. 3, Douglas Feith, who has close ties to Likud.

According to the Washington Post, the FBI is now interviewing present and ex-officials from Cheney's office and the Pentagon as to whether Feith, Richard Perle, David Wurmser and Paul Wolfowitz might have leaked U.S. security secrets to Israel, AIPAC or Ahmed Chalabi.

Chalabi, once the Pentagon's candidate to succeed Saddam, has lately fallen from favor. Reportedly, he was caught telling Iran's intelligence station chief in Baghdad that friends in the Pentagon informed him they had broken Iran's code and were listening in on Iran's secret communications between Baghdad and Tehran.

AIPAC and the Israelis deny any spying. Cooperation between the Bush and Sharon governments is so close, they insist, there is no need to commit espionage or thieve U.S. documents. Perhaps, but the men about whom the FBI is inquiring have old, deep and questionable ties to Israel and the Likud Party of Ariel Sharon.

[INDENT]_In 1970, Perle was picked up on an FBI wiretap discussing NSC secrets with the Israeli Embassy. In 1981, as assistant secretary of defense, Perle got a top-secret security clearance for his chosen deputy Stephen Bryen, who is said to have narrowly eluded indictment for offering top-secret documents to Mossad's man in Washington.

_In 1982, Feith was the object of an inquiry as to whether he had given secret documents to the Israeli Embassy. Fired from the NSC, he was hired by Perle. Feith left the Pentagon in 1986 to form a law firm – in Israel. Hired by Rumsfeld in 2001, Feith set up the Office of Special Plans, which cherry-picked the intelligence to the White House that turned out to be false, but facilitated the war on Iraq.

_In 1996, Perle, Feith and Wurmser co-authored a paper for Netanyahu calling for ditching Oslo, reoccupying the West Bank and overthrowing Saddam as "an important Israeli strategic objective."

_In 1998, Wolfowitz and Perle signed an open letter from the neoconservative front group PNAC to Clinton, urging him to ditch diplomacy and wage war on Iraq, and pledging their full support.

_On Jan. 1, 2001, eight months before 9-11, Wurmser, at AEI, called for joint U.S.-Israeli air strikes on Iraq, Iran, Syria and Libya.

_According to White House anti-terror chief Richard Clarke, Wolfowitz, in April 2001, wanted Osama put on a back burner and for us to go after Iraq. In the first hours after 9-11, according to Bob Woodward and Clarke, Wolfowitz wanted Iraq invaded, not Afghanistan. For his role in steering us into war, Wolfowitz was named Man of the Year – by the Jerusalem Post. [/INDENT]

In my new book, "Where the Right Went Wrong," there is a line that now appears prophetic: "America needs a Middle East policy made in the USA, not in Tel Aviv, or at AIPAC or AEI."

Having promised him a cakewalk to Baghdad and a rose garden thereafter, neoconservatives misled President Bush. He should have fired the lot of them. Having failed to do so, he ought now, in his own interests, as well as our nation's, name Patrick "Bulldog" Fitzgerald, now heading up the investigation into the Valerie Plame leak, to head up the investigation of Israeli espionage, and possible treason, against the United States.

If there has been a recurrence of Pollardism at the Pentagon, we need to know and the president needs to act, as Truman did not with Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White.

Sertorius

2004-09-09 11:03 | User Profile

Leave it to the treason lobby and their bought friends like Roy Blunt and other Israel Firsters in Congress to deep six this affair.

FBI investigates suspected Pentagon security breaches By Guy Dinmore in Washington Published: September 7 2004 20:36 | Last updated: September 7 2004 20:36

An FBI investigation into suspected security breaches involving Pentagon officials and Israel is unlikely to result in prosecution of senior figures following pressure from the White House, according to people familiar with the case.

The investigation has highlighted concerns that a small group of neo-conservatives in the Pentagon not only may have divulged classified information to Israel, but also tried to mount intelligence and foreign policy operations without informing the State Department and Central Intelligence Agency.

Analysts said that although the neo-conservative proponents of regime change in Iraq and Iran had fallen out of favour with the White House, the presidential election in November still afforded them protection.

The White House denied allegations of a cover-up. A spokesman said there was full support for the investigation.

Sources familiar with the investigation said the White House and John Ashcroft, the US attorney-general, had intervened to apply the brakes. “The White House is leaning on the FBI. Some people in the FBI are very upset, they think Ashcroft is playing politics with this,” a former intelligence official said.

Paul McNulty, the Virginia district attorney in charge of the probe, had been told to slow down, the sources said. Asked for comment, Mr McNulty's office would only say that the investigation was continuing.

The investigations came to light last month, when officials confirmed reports that Lawrence Franklin, a mid-level analyst at the Pentagon, was the subject of an FBI inquiry into whether he passed classified information to an Israeli diplomat in Washington and to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), an influential lobby group.

Aipac had been under investigation for more than two years, a senior White House official said. Aipac and Israel deny involvement in espionage.

Stephen Green, author and investigative reporter, said the FBI had interviewed him about several prominent neo-conservatives, including Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defence secretary, Douglas Feith, undersecretary for policy at the Pentagon, as well as former officials including Richard Perle, Stephen Bryen and Michael Ledeen.

The FBI is said to be looking back at investigations into alleged breaches of security involving Israel and current and former officials. None of the cases reached court. However, David Frum, former speechwriter for the president, said the investigators had found nothing serious and were about to drop the matter. He described what he called an anti-Israeli obsession among some parts of the administration who viewed Israel “not as the ally it is by law and treaty but as the source of all the trouble in the Middle East and the world”.

Mr Franklin, officials say, is suspected of providing Aipac with a draft national security presidential directive that proposed a tougher policy towards Iran.

In December 2001, Mr Franklin attended a meeting in Rome organised by Mr Ledeen with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer with ties to Israel, and Antonio Martino, Italy's defence minister, and Nicolo Pollari, head of Italian military intelligence.

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Walter Yannis

2004-09-10 12:03 | User Profile

Check this out:

[URL=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40392]American Mossad: AIPAC and the World Jewish Conspiracy[/URL]

Quantrill

2004-09-10 12:55 | User Profile

Here's Sam Francis' take: [url="http://vdare.com/francis/spy_case.htm"]How Far Does the Israeli Spy Case Go?[/url]

Hopefully, the powers-that-be wont succeed in burying this scandal.

Sertorius

2004-09-10 13:40 | User Profile

Q,

They are doing some serious sqaulling over this. For the moment it won't go away. I just love these A.I.N.O. who are more upset at the F.B.I. agents that take their oaths to the Constitution seriously. Punish them, not A.I.P.A.C! Of course, these clowns have a lot to hide, so it is easy to understand their motivation here.

White House Draws Fire From Congress, Officials Over Leak of FBI Probe Wexler: Community 'Broadbrushed' By Ori Nir September 10, 2004

WASHINGTON — With America's pro-Israel lobby scrambling to combat media leaks from unnamed government officials, the White House is drawing criticism from congressmen and Jewish communal officials over the FBI investigation into allegations that officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee illegally transferred secret information to Israel.

Lawmakers and Jewish organizational leaders are questioning the motivation for the investigation and its two-year course, stressing that no indictments have emerged — only leaks from administration officials familiar with the FBI probe. In addition to expressing outrage over the media leaks, several Congressmen are also condemning the investigation itself, which they say has spawned unfair accusations of disloyalty against Aipac and represents an abuse of power on the part of Attorney General John Ashcroft.

"To think that one of the leading American Jewish organizations has been investigated for two years, and the highest people at the White House were aware of it, is extremely unsettling," said Rep. Robert Wexler, a Florida Democrat. "If there was an individual or group who broke the law, they need to be held accountable. But the broad-brushing of Aipac and the American Jewish community is extremely inflammatory and needs to be stopped."

Wexler, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Ashcroft last week demanding that the Justice Department either submit charges or "exonerate the American Israel Public Affairs Committee of this public castigation."

Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank said that the investigation "does appear to be an effort to discredit, to get Aipac." He said: "I'm troubled by it. It's a very inappropriate effort to criminalize a policy debate. It's John Ashcroft, and the president and [Vice President Dick] Cheney."

Also voicing criticism were the two Jewish Republican senators, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Norm Coleman of Minnesota. Specter told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that Ashcroft should launch an investigation into the leaks. "I know Aipac; I know its integrity," he said. "It's a smear." Coleman said that "the real issue here is preventing leaks — of classified materials and about ongoing investigations." The Minnesota senator argued that "to leak details about an ongoing FBI investigation and the alleged role of Aipac is premature at best and a smear campaign at worst."

At least one lawmaker, Representative John Conyers of Michigan, was calling for a congressional investigation regarding the substance of the allegations. Conyers, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, asked the committee's Republican chairman, James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, to open an investigation into the claim that a "rogue element of the United States government" may have worked with a foreign government in possible contravention of foreign policy.

In Jewish communal circles, the criticisms and calls for investigations were focused on either the media leaks or the probe itself.

Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, suggested that the administration and media had blundered. "There will be a lot of hard questions that will have to be answered by a lot of people when this is all over," Hoenlein said. "People will have to be held to account. What happened? Why it happened? What was going on in the last two years?"

Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, echoed several other Jewish organizational leaders in demanding an investigation into the leaks. "Who did it and why? What's the agenda?"

The rising chorus of criticism comes as it becomes clear that, contrary to the predictions of Aipac leaders, the controversy is not fading away. In the two weeks since CBS News first reported that the FBI is investigating allegations that a Defense Department analyst transferred secret information to Israel through Aipac, anonymous sources have been leaking information to the media on a regular basis, suggesting that the probe extends beyond one Pentagon official sharing one document with Israeli diplomats or pro-Israeli lobbyists:

• According to press reports quoting several administration officials, the investigation into possible wrongdoing by Aipac was launched more than two years ago, based on suspicions that Aipac employees passed secret information to Israel. One report said that the president's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and her top deputy, Stephen Hadley, were informed of the probe not long after Bush took office in 2001.

• The alleged transfer of a secret White House policy brief by a Pentagon Iran analyst, Larry Franklin, to Aipac staffers last summer was seen by investigators as the "smoking gun." It advanced the investigation, particularly after Franklin agreed to cooperate with investigators.

• FBI agents wiretapped the homes of two senior Aipac staffers, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, who were interviewed by FBI agents August 27, the day the story broke. Their offices were searched and the hard drive of Rosen's computer was copied, according to reports. Abbe Lowell, a criminal lawyer who specializes in white-collar criminal defense, is representing Rosen and Weissman. In the past, Lowell has defended politicians accused of ethics violations.

• At the Pentagon, agents focused on Franklin but also interviewed other officials at the office of Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith. According to press reports, Feith was also interviewed, and some of these Pentagon officials, according to reports, are also being investigated on suspicion that they may have told Iraqi dissident Ahmed Chalabi that the United States has broken secret Iranian communications codes — information that Chalabi is suspected of having transferred to Iran. According to one report, the Chalabi investigation, or even a part of the investigation, is linked with connections between Pentagon officials and pro-Israel lobbyists. Other reports say the two investigations are separate.

• Franklin, according to an Israeli press report, was in contact not only with the political counselor at Israel's Washington embassy, Naor Gilon, but also with the intelligence attaché, a colonel who was identified by his first initial, Y. The colonel, according to the daily Ma'ariv, received information from Franklin and reported his contacts with the American analyst to his superiors at Israel's military intelligence command in Tel Aviv. Israeli officials told Ma'ariv, however, that there was nothing illegal or unethical in the contacts with Franklin, which are described as "working meetings."

• Parallel to its investigation into Aipac's conduct, the FBI had reportedly been conducting surveillance of Israeli diplomat Gilon. The Aipac investigation and the surveillance of Gilon reportedly converged — and led to the Pentagon — after Franklin walked into a meeting between Gilon and the two Aipac staffers at a Washington restaurant a year ago.

• Media reports, attributed to government sources, also said that despite its denials, Israel still runs an aggressive spying operation in the United States, which American counterterrorism agents are surveying.

The wave of allegations and leaks has Jewish activists worried. "The longer this story is out there without concrete facts or some conclusion, the more we will bleed," one Jewish organizational official said.

One concern voiced by Jewish activists was that Aipac's enemies would use this opportunity to discredit the Jewish community. The first such salvo came from conservative pundit and former presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan last Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Alluding to Jonathan Pollard, the American Jewish Navy analyst now serving a life sentence for spying for Israel, Buchanan said: "We also need to investigate whether there is a nest of Pollardites in the Pentagon who have been transmitting American secrets through Aipac, the Israeli lobby, over to Reno Road, the Israeli embassy, to be transferred to Mr. Sharon." If the allegations proved true, he said, "we are getting dangerously close to the T-word," an apparent reference to treason.

Such attacks on Aipac will affect the whole Jewish community, communal insiders said. An official with one major Jewish organization worried that Aipac's aggressive lobbying tactics have alienated some lawmakers, making them more likely to move away from the organization as the scandal unfolds. "They have a crappy reputation with some members of Congress who say certain [positive] things publicly, and behind the scenes say: 'I am tired of them twisting my arm.'"

Several Jewish activists, speaking on condition of anonymity, also cautioned against what they described as a defiant reaction on the part of some communal leaders who raised the specter of antisemitic conspiracy.

"If every single time we get into trouble we cry antisemitism, no one is going to believe us when we confront the real problem of antisemitism," a senior official of a Jewish organization said. Another organizational official said: "It's ridiculous to react like that before you know what happened there. In the absence of accurate knowledge, any comment is just silly."

-— With reporting by E.J. Kessler

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Quantrill

2004-09-10 13:56 | User Profile

[QUOTE=Sertorius] "To think that one of the leading American Jewish organizations has been investigated for two years, and the highest people at the White House were aware of it, is extremely unsettling," said Rep. Robert Wexler, a Florida Democrat. "If there was an individual or group who broke the law, they need to be held accountable. But the broad-brushing of Aipac and the American Jewish community is extremely inflammatory and needs to be stopped."[/QUOTE] Could these folks be any more bought and paid for? This jackass says that it is 'unsettling' that a Jewish organization has been investigated, but apparently it is not 'unsettling' that they were spying on us. He also says that 'if there was an individual or group who broke the law, they need to be held accountable,' but then goes right on to say that investigating AIPAC is 'broad-brushing' it. Hey shabbo, AIPAC is a 'group' that very well may have 'broke[en] the law.' So, what is the problem with investigating them?

Sertorius

2004-09-10 14:40 | User Profile

Q,

I love this cheap smear that they have been using here and in other articles I've read. Apparently all the talking points have been distributed.

[QUOTE]One concern voiced by Jewish activists was that Aipac's enemies would use this opportunity to discredit the Jewish community. The first such salvo came from conservative pundit and former presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan last Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Alluding to Jonathan Pollard, the American Jewish Navy analyst now serving a life sentence for spying for Israel, Buchanan said: "We also need to investigate whether there is a nest of Pollardites in the Pentagon who have been transmitting American secrets through Aipac, the Israeli lobby, over to Reno Road, the Israeli embassy, to be transferred to Mr. Sharon." If the allegations proved true, he said, "we are getting dangerously close to the T-word," an apparent reference to treason.[/QUOTE]

This really shows contempt for the viewer of this show or the reader of the transcript. How in the hell can they make the claim that Buchanan is "broad-brushing of Aipac and the American Jewish community" when one can read with one's own eyes that quote above and see that he is talking about the "cabal" in the Office of Special Plans!? There they go again trying to pull that crap that anyone who questions "our strategic partner" with this old lying canard for they know that there are more moral cowards who would rather see dead and wounded G.I.s than be accused of "antisemitism."

I laugh when I hear these fools on t.v. and the radio hollering about "the world's only superpower" when that superpower won't control its own southern borders nor stand up to a nation that sucks money out of it and insists on meddling in its internal affairs.

What a sad, sick and pathetic joke.

Blond Knight

2004-09-19 22:07 | User Profile

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As Leaks Dry Up in FBI Investigation, Activists Still Fear Jury Probe

By Ori Nir

Sept. 17, 2004

Washington — Even as a lull in government leaks appears to be short-circuiting the media frenzy over the FBI's investigation of the pro-Israel lobby, sources with access to the Justice Department say the probe is moving forward.

Sources told the Forward that a federal grand jury is expected to begin interviewing people in connection to the investigation, which is believed to center on a Pentagon official suspected of passing on classified documents on to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Investigators reportedly suspect that Aipac officials passed on the information to Israel.

Jewish activists say that so far they know of no one who has been subpoenaed to testify in front of the grand jury. But according to one source, "there is a lot of nonsubpoena-level talking" between investigators and people they think might know of suspected wrongdoing.

The investigation could end up weakening the country's most influential pro-Israel lobbying group significantly and, in turn, cause damage to the American-Israeli relationship. Now, however, reporters with mainstream national news organizations say, it has become almost impossible to obtain any new information from law-enforcement sources on the investigation.

"They are as tight as a drum," said one reporter, who has been following the story on a daily basis.

According to Washington insiders, the goal of the recent torrent of unnamed government leaks was to undermine neoconservative Pentagon analysts who backed the Iraq war, in particular the undersecretary of defense for policy, Douglas Feith, the third-highest ranking civilian in the Pentagon.

"It's clear to me that people are trying to point all the signs to Feith's shop," said a reporter with a major daily newspaper, who has been covering the story.

The criticism of Feith, sources say, has little to do with his being Jewish or his advocating positions identified with Israel's right-wing Likud party. It also has little to do with his role in shaping the administration's policy on Iran, a policy that according to press reports was the subject of documents inappropriately transferred by Lawrence Franklin, the Pentagon specialist on Iran who is allegedly suspected of sharing secret documents with Israeli diplomats and with staffers at Aipac, to Israel or to Aipac.

Feith is the most obvious target for critics in the intelligence community and the State Department, as well as members of the Pentagon's senior brass, over the formation and execution of American policy in post-war Iraq. He is perceived by many as personifying the administration's alleged manipulation of prewar intelligence to create a compelling case for war. He is also perceived as being responsible for a series of mistakes in the ongoing effort to pacify Iraq after the military campaign to depose Saddam Hussein's rule had ended.

Criticism of Feith and the policies he represents "is of course legitimate," a Jewish activist in Washington said. "Our concern, though, is that this criticism, coupled with still-unsubstantiated allegations and innuendo of inappropriate conduct by one of his staffers, legitimizes conspiracy theories."

Feith was the subject of two unflattering profiles in the mainstream media over the weekend. In an interview with National Public Radio, Feith said, addressing his policy on Iraq: "I don't mean to claim that no mistakes were made. There were mistakes, but I think that some of the critics are unduly harsh and unrealistic."

He refused to comment to NPR on FBI investigations focusing on members of his staff.

Meanwhile, in the face of a rising wave of criticism from lawmakers, Jewish organizations and neoconservative pundits, the leaks regarding the FBI probe have stopped.

The reasons for the lull are not clear, but journalists and Jewish communal officials were floating several theories this week, including the notion that the sudden silence came in response to the condemnations from Jewish organizations and Capitol Hill.

"I sure hope that this is the case and that there was a directive" issued to stop leaking, said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. Last week Foxman sent a letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller and to Attorney General John Ashcroft asking that they investigate who leaked the information and why.

"Maybe the clamp is on because [the leakers] made [law-enforcement agencies] look bad in the whole process," said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

"It may be that this has run its course," Hoenlein said, sounding a bit skeptical as he struggled to strike an optimistic chord. "People have used it as an opportunity to make a little trouble, and now that's over." Foxman was quick to reject any talk of a fading controversy, saying: "I think we have a long ways to go" before the affair is over.

Other officials with major Jewish organizations seemed to agree.

"We don't know anything. Nobody is telling us anything," said a veteran Jewish activist in Washington. "Someone seems to have put the kibosh on [the leaks], but we don't see anything to indicate that this is the end of the story. It will cause more embarrassment as it unfolds."

The only new tidbit of information on the investigation to emerge this week came from an interview in Time magazine with an unidentified ex- member of the Iraqi National Congress, the group headed by Ahmed Chalabi. The former INC member told Time that Franklin asked him several probing questions. The man said that Franklin questioned him only about possible leaks of secret American information to the INC.

The Time report seemed to confirm earlier accounts that Franklin is in fact cooperating with the FBI, and is trying to help investigators with another suspected espionage scandal in the Pentagon.

Law enforcement agencies reportedly suspect that a Pentagon official told Chalabi or one of his INC colleagues that the United States had obtained secret Iranian communications codes. Chalabi is allegedly suspected of disclosing that intelligence clue to the Iranian government.

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Blond Knight

2004-09-19 22:46 | User Profile

Check out the cartoon posted at the following link:

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neoclassical

2004-09-21 01:07 | User Profile

FBI probes Jewish sway on Bush government
By Nathan Guttman

WASHINGTON - The FBI investigation into the Pentagon mole affair has expanded beyond data analyst Larry Franklin's immediate circle to encompass the entire issue of Jewish influence on the neoconservative part of the administration.

The FBI queries have recently been focusing on a number of officials, all from the neoconservative wing, who had access to the debates on Iranian affairs, the Washington Post reported yesterday.

The officials include Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz; Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith; Pentagon adviser Richard Perle; adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, David Wormser; and Iran specialist Harold Rhode, all of them Jews.

The Washington Post reported that FBI people recently spoke to administration officials and Middle East experts to sound them out on the suspicion that senior officials funneled secret material to Israel. They asked each official whether he believes that a certain group of people could spy for Israel and transfer secret information.

The investigation now appears to center on the claim made by the opponents of the neoconservatives in the administration - that the latter are responsible for the U.S. Middle East policy and that they are suspected of bias in favor of Israel's interests.

The issues being queried have also increased. It transpires that the FBI is investigating, in addition to funneling classified information to Israel, the possibility that secret information had been given to Ahmed Chalabi, of the Iraqi opposition. Chalabi was close to many of the people mentioned in the affair and was a central source of information to the Americans on the goings-on in Iraq before the war.

The Washington Post said the FBI asked the administration officials about Israeli embassy officials in Washington who allegedly held contacts with administration officials to procure secret information. So far, only the name of Naor Gilon, the political adviser in the embassy, was mentioned as involved in the affair.

The L.A. Times reported on Friday that the American administration does not believe Israel's contention that it does not spy on America and that U.S. government officials say Israel secretly maintains a large and active intelligence-gathering operation in the U.S.

The officials said the FBI and other bodies spy on Israeli diplomats in Washington and New York as a matter of routine. The report said that Israel has long attempted to recruit U.S. officials as spies and to procure classified documents, according to the Times.

Israel said it set a policy of not spying on the United States after Jonathan Pollard's arrest in November 1985 and the damage it did to bilateral relations in general and to intelligence and security ties in particular. For 20 years, Israel said, that policy has translated into unequivocal directives to the intelligence and defense communities: They are not allowed to locate candidates for recruiting as agents, cannot recruit and operate agents, nor pay for information.

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Sertorius

2004-09-21 11:08 | User Profile

Something I'd loved to see asked and have the question pressed home:

[QUOTE]The officials include Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz; Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith; Pentagon adviser Richard Perle; adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, David Wormser; and Iran specialist Harold Rhode, all of them Jews.[/QUOTE]

Why is this?? (rhetorical question)

Ponce

2004-09-21 15:00 | User Profile

[QUOTE=Sertorius]Something I'd loved to see asked and have the question pressed home:

Why is this?? (rhetorical question)[/QUOTE]

He is only pointing out as to who the Jewsish trouble makers are in the US Government.

And now the Zionist state of Israel are asking the US for Bunker Buster Bombs in order to drop them on Iran's nuclear positions.

If the US does that then we also would be as guilty as the Zionist of creating WWIII,,,,,,,, Which in reality we have already started.

Ponce

2004-09-21 22:30 | User Profile

I just finished reading that the US is selling 5,000 "smart" bombs to the Zionist state of Israel,,,,,,, the bombs might be "smart" but the US is dumb.

Expect in six of seven months for an article where the state of Israel is working on a new deal in order to sell 3,000 smart bombs to China which the Jews developed.

5,000 more bombs???????????? don't tell me that the Zionists want peace or I'll call you a fuc*ing liar.

According to Bush at the UN we must stop the killing of the innocents and of children and bring justice to all,,,,, like the Jews killing the Pals?

If there is a real God (besides God Bush) the ground will open up and swallow all Jews before we all die.

"When the truth comes into the light, the lies will hide in the dark",,, Ponce

Ponce

2004-09-22 00:24 | User Profile

Bush pretends that he is doing all that he can in order to bring peace to Palestine,,,,,,,,so, he asked the Zionists to impose a "settlement freeze", lol.

A settlement freeze means to me that they can continue to expand those settlement that are already there till they steal the whole land from the Palestinians.

I sure wish that this jocker would say the truth at least once, on anything, in order to make me believe that he is the one who is really running this country.

I have noticed more and more anti-Jewish feelings world wide, maybe the world are finally waken up as to who those people really are.

The good thing is that every time a Jew shows his Israeli passport while traveling they are being questioned a little bit longer than others.

Okiereddust

2004-09-23 06:08 | User Profile

[QUOTE=Quantrill]Here's Sam Francis' take: [url="http://vdare.com/francis/spy_case.htm"]How Far Does the Israeli Spy Case Go?[/url]

Hopefully, the powers-that-be wont succeed in burying this scandal.[/QUOTE] I think unfortunately they almost certainly will, because the mentality of the public today, fed off the press makes the significance of the Israeli spying scandal hard to understand for them.

Having been spoon fed with a constant "Israel is our closest all, along with Britain, in the whole world" line, its difficult for the public to really understand why these constant investigations of Israeli activities in the US exist.

We never have this problem with our other allies after all. When was the last time we heard any talk of spying from any NATO country, or for that matter any non-communist country? But for allies in particular it seems very rare. Intelligence services understand the need to promote trust with each other to promote voluntary sharing of information, and never go beyond preagreed bounds.

Obviously intelligence officials in US agencies like the FBI have developed a real appreciation of the true nature of our "best allie in the Middle East". Its too bad some of them couldn't be persuaded to better articulate this knowledge to the general public.

Sertorius

2004-09-24 08:08 | User Profile

Okie,

It seems to look that way. The best thing that happen to Bush recently was this stupid story about Dan Rather. The idiots on radio and t.v. will only talk about this scandal while pretending the other didn't occur. This is a nice diversion from the criminally treasonous to the criminally stupid. I'd laugh if it turned out the the Bush re-election committee was involved. Below is an article related to this and what's funny was yesterday Ms. Menopause (Laura Ingraham) was laughing about a photo that appeared of Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball in the article below. Funny how Laura didn't see fit to inform her ignorant audience of what the story was about for CBS should have ran with this one.

+++++++++++++++++++++++ The Story That Didn’t Run Here’s the piece that ‘60 Minutes’ killed for its report on the Bush Guard documentsBy Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball

Newsweek Updated: 5:24 p.m. ET Sept. 22, 2004Sept. 22 - In its rush to air its now discredited story about President George W. Bush’s National Guard service, CBS bumped another sensitive piece slated for the same “60 Minutes” broadcast: a half-hour segment about how the U.S. government was snookered by forged documents purporting to show Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium from Niger.

The journalistic juggling at CBS provides an ironic counterpoint to the furor over apparently bogus documents involving Bush’s National Guard service. One unexpected consequence of the network’s decision was to wipe out a chance—at least for the moment—for greater public scrutiny of a more consequential forgery that played a role in building the Bush administration’s case to invade Iraq.

A team of “60 Minutes” correspondents and consulting reporters spent more than six months investigating the Niger uranium documents fraud, CBS sources tell NEWSWEEK. The group landed the first ever on-camera interview with Elisabetta Burba, the Italian journalist who first obtained the phony documents, as well as her elusive source, Rocco Martino, a mysterious Roman businessman with longstanding ties to European intelligence agencies.

Although the edited piece never ended up identifying Martino by name, the story, narrated by “60 Minutes” correspondent Ed Bradley, asked tough questions about how the White House came to embrace the fraudulent documents and why administration officials chose to include a 16-word reference to the questionable uranium purchase in President Bush’s 2003 State of the Union speech.

But just hours before the piece was set to air on the evening of Sept. 8, the reporters and producers on the CBS team were stunned to learn the story was being scrapped to make room for a seemingly sensational story about new documents showing that Bush ignored a direct order to take a flight physical while serving in the National Guard more than 30 years ago.

The story has since created a journalistic and political firestorm, resulting in a colossal embarrassment for CBS. This week, the network concluded that its principle source for the documents, a disgruntled former Guard official and Democratic partisan named Bill Burkett, had lied about where he got the material. CBS anchor Dan Rather publicly apologized for broadcasting the faulty report. Today, CBS named a two-person team comprised of former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and former Associated Press chief Louis Boccardi to investigate the network’s handling of the story. .

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“This is like living in a Kafka novel,” said Joshua Micah Marshall, a Washington Monthly contributing writer and a Web blogger who had been collaborating with “60 Minutes” producers on the uranium story. “Here we had a very important, well-reported story about forged documents that helped lead the country to war. And then it gets bumped by another story that relied on forged documents.”

Some CBS reporters, as well as one of the network’s key sources, fear that the Niger uranium story may never run, at least not any time soon, on the grounds that the network can now not credibly air a report questioning how the Bush administration could have gotten taken in by phony documents. The network would “be a laughingstock,” said one source intimately familiar with the story.

Although acknowledging that it was “frustrating” to have his story bounced, David Gelber, the lead CBS producer on the Niger piece, said he has been told the segment will still air some time soon, perhaps as early as next week. “Obviously, everybody at CBS is holding their breath these days. I’m assuming the story is going to run until I’m told differently.”

The delay of the CBS report comes at a time when there have been significant new developments in the case—although virtually none of them have been reported in the United States. According to Italian and British press reports, Martino—the Rome middleman at the center of the case—was questioned last week by an Italian investigating magistrate for two hours about the circumstances surrounding his acquisition of the documents. Martino could not be reached for comment, but his lawyer is reportedly planning a press conference in the next few days.

Burba, the Italian journalist, confirmed to NEWSWEEK this week that Martino is the previously mysterious “Mr. X” who contacted her with the potentially explosive documents in early October 2002—just as Congress was debating whether to authorize President Bush to wage war against Iraq. The documents, consisting of telexes, letters and contracts, purported to show that Iraq had negotiated an agreement to purchase 500 tons of “yellowcake uranium from Niger, material that could be used to make a nuclear bomb. (A U.S. intelligence official told NEWSWEEK that Martino is in fact believed to have been the distributor of the documents.)

Burba—under instructions from her editor at Panarama, a newsmagazine owned by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi—then provided the documents to the U.S. Embassy in Rome in an effort to authenticate them. The embassy soon passed the material on to Washington where some Bush administration officials viewed it as hard evidence to support its case that Saddam Hussein’s regime was actively engaged in a program to assemble nuclear weapons.

But the Niger component of the White House case for war quickly imploded. Asked for evidence to support President Bush’s contention in his State of the Union speech that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa, the administration turned over the Niger documents to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Within two hours, using the Google search engine, IAEA officials in Vienna determined the documents to be a crude forgery. At the urging of Sen. Jay Rockefeller, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the FBI launched an investigation into the Niger documents in an effort to determine if the United States government had been duped by a deliberate “disinformation” campaign organized by a foreign intelligence agency or others with a political agenda relating to Iraq.

So far, the bureau appears to have made little progress in unraveling the case. “The senator is frustrated by the slow pace of the investigation,” said Wendy Morigi, the press secretary for Senator Rockefeller, who was recently briefed on the status of the FBI probe.

One striking aspect of the FBI’s investigation is that, at least as of this week, Martino has told associates he has never even been interviewed by the bureau—despite the fact that he was publicly identified by the Financial Times of London as the source of the documents more than six weeks ago and was subsequently flown to New York City by CBS to be interviewed for the “60 Minutes” report.

A U.S. law-enforcement official said the FBI is seeking to interview Martino, but has not yet received permission to do so from the Italian government. The official declined to comment on other aspects of the investigation.

The case has taken on additional intrigue because of mounting indications that Martino has longstanding relationships with European intelligence agencies. Martino recently told the Sunday Times of London that he had previously worked for SISMI, the Italian military-intelligence agency, a potentially noteworthy part of his resume given that the conservative Italian government of Berlasconi was a strong supporter of the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq. A French government official told NEWSWEEK that Martino also had a relationship with French intelligence agencies. But the French official rejected suggestions from U.S. and British officials that French intelligence may have played a role in creating the documents in order to embarrass Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The French never disseminated the documents because they could not establish their authenticity, the French official said.

Martino has told Burba and others that he obtained the phony documents from an Italian woman who worked in the Niger Embassy in Rome. He was in turn put in touch with the woman by yet another middleman who, according to Burba’s account, had directed Martino to provide the documents to “the Eygptians.” Some press reports have suggested the still unidentified middleman who put Martino in touch with his Niger Embassy source was in fact a SISMI officer himself.

Burba, who has twice been interviewed by the FBI but never gave up Martino’s name, said she had been cooperating with the CBS team on the story in hopes of getting to the bottom of the matter. But now, with the “60 Minutes” broadcast postponed, she is no longer confident that can ever happen. Meanwhile, she said she is fed up with Martino who has “lied” to her and provided contradictory accounts to other journalists.

“I’m disappointed,” she told NEWSWEEK. “In this story, you don’t know who’s lying and who’s telling the truth. The sources have been both discredited and discredited themselves.”

Barbie Nadeau contributed to this report from Rome.

© 2004 Newsweek, Inc.

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Blond Knight

2004-09-27 04:24 | User Profile

Proving once more that the poor persecuted Jews do not have any undue influence in American affairs we have the following:

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Jewish Pressure Applied to AIPAC Scandal Investigator Report; Posted on: 2004-09-26 14:09:17

Jewish Times, Jewish Telegraphic Agency report allegations that FBI's Szady is 'anti-Semitic'; National Vanguard calls for investigation.

by Ann Hendon

Jewish Times writer Edwin Black states in stories simultaneously published yesterday by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) and the Jewish Times that David Szady (pictured), the FBI counterintelligence chief who is responsible for the AIPAC spy scandal investigation which blew the lid off illegal espionage for Israel in the neoconservative-dominated Bush administration, is "well-known to senior Jewish communal officials, who assert he has targeted Jews in the past."

Black further alleged that "an investigation" (By whom? -- and ordered by whom? -- we ask.) showed that Szady "was involved in a well-publicized case involving a Jewish former CIA staff attorney who sued the FBI, the CIA and its top officials for religious discrimination."

According to the "investigation" (which National Vanguard believes may be being draped in secrecy because it possibly involves improper Jewish incursions into and thefts of internal FBI and CIA files), "Szady headed the elite department that former CIA Director George Tenet admitted in 1999 was involved with 'insensitive, unprofessional and highly inappropriate' language regarding the case" of the Jewish attorney, Adam Ciralsky. Szady was not named in the suit, Black admitted.

It appears that Szady will now be subjected to Jewish pressure, accused by -- in many cases unnamed and unaccountable -- "sources" of the crime of seeing Jews as an organized international group with interests not always the same as the interests of the nations within which they reside. This realistic view of Jewish behavior is now referred to as "anti-Semitism."

Whether Szady actually holds such a realistic view is open to question. FBI spokeswoman Cassandra Chandler stated that "David Szady has informed me that he has no anti-Semitic views, has never handled a case or investigation based upon an individual's ethnicity or religious views, and would never do so. ...Investigations are predicated upon information of possible illegal or intelligence activity. The suggestion that the FBI or any FBI official has influenced this investigation based on moral, ethnic or religious bias is simply unfounded, untrue, and contrary to the very values the FBI holds highest."

It does appear that Szady has not consistently favored Jews in the manner to which they have become accustomed. Black says:

"Jewish communal officials familiar with Szady assert he has targeted Jews, blocked or slowed their clearances and squeezed minor security violators. 'He's bad, very bad,' declared one senior Jewish organizational executive, who like all those familiar with Szady declined to speak for the record."

Black claims that "exclusively obtained documents" show that Szady was the head of the CIA's Counterespionage Group, which supposedly "targeted" Ciralsky for being a Zionist and a Jew. Considering the very large numbers of unmolested Jews and Zionists in high positions in Washington, this allegation borders on fantasy.

Szady did take an interest in the Ciralsky case, probably because of a suspicion that Ciralsky may have had a primary loyalty to a foreign nation -- Israel -- and thus was unsuited to his position of trust. Even in the undoubtedly drastically-censored CIA and FBI documents somehow obtained by "Jewish communal leaders," it is clear that Szady's agency also apparently was concerned about Ciralsky's lack of candor in disclosing his Israeli ties. Black states:

Ciralsky's problems began as soon as he joined the CIA's legal staff as a junior member in early December 1996. Within days, CIA security personnel began creating a special file on Ciralsky and his Jewish background, according to the documents.

...The report and the routing slips were tagged with classifications such as "sensitive," "restricted handling" and "eyes only, no registries" thus ensuring that the documents would not end up in any formal and traceable file.

...By September 1997, unable to find any incriminating information on Ciralsky, Szady's CEG assigned teams of investigators to ramp up the pressure with multiple interrogations, according to documents.

One CEG investigator's memo on Sept. 12, 1997, suggests questions for interrogators to ask Ciralsky, such as, "What is your family's relation with Israeli President Ezer Wizman (sic)?"

This question was based on the fact that Ciralsky is a distant relative of Ezer Weizman, who was Israel's president at the time.

The Sept. 12, 1997 memo added, "Maybe his family has donated money to Israeli government causes."

The memo also quotes one of Szady's investigators, saying "From my experience with rich Jewish friends from college, I would fully expect Adam's wealthy daddy to support Israeli political/social causes in some form [such as] Israeli Bonds purchased through the United Jewish Appeal."

A week later, Sept. 19, 1997, before a security polygraph had even been administered, Szady's CEG circulated a secret memo, saying that former CIA director "Tenet says this guy is outta here because of lack of candor Once that's over, it looks like we'll be waving goodbye to our friend."...

Ciralsky complained to the CIA's inspector general, the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, to senior administration officials and to Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

After the outlines of the Ciralsky story broke in 1998, the CIA launched an internal and external review of Szady's department, the CEG, to determine whether it had engaged in anti-Semitism.

As a result of that review, Tenet conceded in a letter to Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League's national director, that "some of the language used by some of the investigators in this case was insensitive, unprofessional and highly inappropriate."

After the review, the CIA hired the ADL to conduct "sensitivity training" within the ranks of Szady's CEG.

Foxman said, "The sensitivity training in the CIA was not directed at one individual. It was directed at a situation. There was a concern in the agency at that time, that the world was changing and the agency itself needed its staff to be sensitive to diversity."

...Postings on the CIA's internal Jewish-only bulletin board - the agency allows various ethnic groups within its ranks to share company tidbits - reflect that numerous employees feel anti-Semitism is rampant. One such posting in 2000, obtained from sources, asks, "Does anyone know how one would go about informing the D/CI [director of central intelligence] "directly that some incidents of anti-Semitism are tolerated?"

Despite Szady's direct involvement in the Ciralsky case, Szady was decorated twice by the CIA for distinguished service, once with its Seal Medallion and once with the Donovan Award.

One Jewish communal official said of Szady, "He has never stopped looking for Mr. X," the elusive individual some FBI officials hypothesized worked with Jonathan Pollard, who was sentenced in 1987 for spying for Israel.

Ciralsky is now a TV network newsman.

These accusations against Szady are based on what appears to be an extensive collection of secret internal documents. Again, National Vanguard asks -- who obtained these documents from whom, and why were they passed on to "Jewish communal leaders"?

This in itself should be a matter for both criminal investigation and a Congressional investigation by Senators Hollings and Byrd -- as should the presence of officially-sanctioned Jewish cells with their own private communications infrastructure wihin the CIA.

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Jewish Times story

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