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Thread ID: 14984 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2004-09-13
2004-09-13 04:37 | User Profile
The first reaction from Washington insiders to news reports that the FBI was hot on the trail of an Israeli spy inside the Pentagon was to wonder what a spy could possibly tell the Israelis they don't already know.
Since this administration, most of the Congress and its staff, and much of the media are all riddled with lobbyists for and friends, sympathizers and outright supporters of Israel, a spy for Tel Aviv would be rather like the Maytag repairman.
Who would bother to call him?
Nevertheless, the news stories about what turns out to have been an FBI counter-intelligence investigation that started two years ago have not gone away. Indeed, the more recent reports lend more credibility to the Israeli spy theory than the earlier ones.
Lawrence Franklin, the Pentagon analyst named as the subject of the investigation, works in the same office as his supervisor, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, who is himself part of the now-notorious "cabal" of neoconservative policy makers who promoted war with Iraq from at least the days after the 9/11 attacks.
Along with Mr. Feith's own boss, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, former Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle and several others in the administration, they are all part of a group that has been extremely close to the Israeli government and especially to Ariel Sharon's Likud government. It is now clear that the investigation is interested in all of the above.
And they are not alone. Yet another figure surfacing in the case is Michael Ledeen, also a prominent neoconservative, who was involved in the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s, when he served as the conduit between the Israeli and U.S. governments in kicking off the whole covert business. Now, Mr. Ledeen is reported to have held meetings with Mr. Franklin and his old buddy from Iran-Contra days, Iranian Manucher Ghorbanifar.
It all gets curiouser and curiouser.
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2004-09-13 18:15 | User Profile
Funny how this one seems to have fallen into the Orwellian memory hole.
From my experience, our "press corps" are liberal humanities burnouts who are of overwhelmingly liberal slant.
Hence, pity for the poor Israelis and hiding this topic with the approval of their overseers... I mean shareholders...