The infuriating American MSM
I have to tell you honestly, I do not watch TV in Israel. So sitting in an airport in front of a television screen is like deja vu all over again for me.
So I'm sitting in the airport (I hope I'll be on a plane by the time you all see this) and there's Client Number 9 on CNN interviewing Steve Rosen of AIPAC and that creep, Jeremy Ben Ami. My first thought is, why is Ben Ami even in the same room as Rosen. Rosen leads a group that has massive support among American Jews and that just ran a convention that had 11,000 people and triple digit numbers of members of Congress. Ben Ami is a Soros hack. Soros doesn't own CNN so why is Ben Ami there?
I couldn't hear much of the conversation (there are hundreds of people waiting here), but the end was sickening. Client Number 9 summed up saying something like "it's amazing how Netanyahu says all these not nice things about Obama after Obama goes out of his way to praise Israel." Huh?
Oh yes, the segment's title was "Israel angry over Obama speech."
Labels: CNN lies, Elliot Spitzer, Jeremy Ben Ami, Steve Rosen
FBI spent years investigating AIPAC
Based on a 27-page document that is still under court seal, Eli Lake reports that the FBI spent years investigating AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), the pre-eminent pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States, partly out of suspicion that there was a
second Jonathan Pollard who had spied on the United States.
Another factor that has led counterintelligence officials to suspect Israeli intelligence-gathering is the case of Jonathan Pollard, who sold U.S. secrets to the Israelis while he served as a Navy intelligence analyst 25 years ago. He is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in North Carolina.
This month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a public plea for Pollard's release before the Knesset, Israel's parliament. U.S. Jewish organizations on the same day signed a letter, along with other religious leaders, asking that Pollard, 56, be released.
Abe Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said the scrutiny of Mr. Rosen reflects the belief among some in the intelligence community that Pollard must have worked with someone else, because much of the intelligence he stole was not related to his areas of expertise.
"I believe this goes back to this notion that there was a second Pollard and it was bigger than Pollard," Mr. Foxman said. "I am not sure that to this day they have given up this fantasy notion. I would rather they pursue this, come up with nothing, rather than not be given the opportunity to pursue it and saying, 'if only they let us, we would find something.'"
Mr. Revell said the U.S. government had a "rather vigorous discussion with the Israelis" after the Pollard arrest. He added that he considers the Pollard affair to be a "one-off" event and not part of a pattern of Israelis recruiting Americans. He also said there were no ties that turned up connecting Pollard to pro-Israel groups such as AIPAC.
"We do not consider the Israelis a national security threat to the United States," Mr. Revell said. "What we do want to do is to make sure that some individual entities or individuals do not become overzealous, that in their desire to help Israel do not cross the line and take actions that are detrimental to U.S. security or intelligence."
It's a fascinating story and you should
read the whole thing. The bottom line is that the FBI spent a lot of time, money and resources investigating AIPAC, and all they had to show for it is a plea bargain with someone they used for a sting operation.
Labels: AIPAC, Eli Lake, Jonathan Pollard, Larry Franklin, Steve Rosen
