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  • Antiwar   Rosen Weissman and Antiwar, "AIPAC, Espionage, and Legal Sabotage Has the AIPAC spy trial been derailed?  Will the treason-is-free-speech defense work? if avoiding a trial at all costs fail?
  • Vulture Capitalist, ...beware. ... $$$ to limited hangout news websites.  His $$ support of  'left' sites do affect the news.  No reporting on reopening 911 investigation, Russian Israeli mob, Carnaby CIA murder in Houston.  
  • CodePinkDC blog, Feinstein, Schumer, "he would not support granting habeas corpus to detained prisoners at Guantanamo, and suggested the President can ignore surveillance statutes in wartime, ..."
  • CommonDreams Cheney, Libby, AIPAC ... "Cheney, lashing out at Democrats for the first time since the felony conviction of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, his former top deputy, resumed his controversial claims Monday that the war in Iraq is the central front in the worldwide U.S. response to the Sept. 11 attacks"
  •   Tear Down This War. or did Ronald Reagan say Tear Down the Wall.
  • CounterPunch "The Libby Affair and the Internal War By JAMES PETRAS... 
  • CounterPunch "The End is Nigh ...
  • Dissident Voice "The Pro-Israel Lobby and US Middle East Policy The Score Card for 2007 ... The major contenders for influence in the making of US policy in the Middle East include the ‘war party’ led by the Zionist power configuration and its followers in Congress and its allies among the civilian militarists in the White House led by Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Rice, National Security Adviser for Middle East Affairs Elliot Abrams, along with an army of scribes in the major print media. On the other side are a small minority of Congress-people, ex-officials linked to Big Oil, a divided Peace Movement, Arab Gulf States, Saudi Arabia and a number of European countries on specific sets of issues."
  • EtherZone "Who Lied Us Into War, Justin Raimondo, Antiwar ..
  • FAS Federation of American Scientists, Secrecy News
  • FAS, trial documents:  CIPA motions pdf  and 'strike the governments effort to close the trial pdf
  • Seattle Jewish Voice for Peace, (and see JVP petition) protest AIPAC meeting. search terms: Westin Hotel, Other participating organizations included Voices of Palestine, Palestine Solidarity Committee, ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), Stand Up Seattle and Women in Black. Many protesters felt special urgency to oppose AIPAC in the context of the intensified U.S.-sponsored Israeli seige of Gaza. 
  • Indymedia James Petras, new book: The Power of Israel in the United States.  How the Jewish Lobby dominates US foreign policy  
  • Indymedia San Diego "The FBI caught Franklin, 58 -- a Pentagon analyst on Iran and an Air Force Reserve colonel -- meeting two agents of AIPAC, Israel's US "lobby," in an Alexandria, VA, restaurant in June 2003. AIPAC employees -- including now-charged AIPAC agents at the meeting, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman --"
  • Institute for Research, Middle East Policy "AIPAC Espionage Case Ruling opens door to Executive Privilege Dismissal ... graymail, ... If Ellis reads the news, he knows that this has already occurred when Bush administration officials refused to appear before Congress to discuss the firing of US attorneys. If this happens again, the case against AIPAC will be over,
  • Juan Cole, WHIG, AIPAC
  • MuzzleWatch  Tracking efforts to stifle open debate about US-Israeli foreign policy, and see Jewish Voice for Peace
  • Peace, Earth & Justice News
  • Secrecy News, FAS Federation of American Scientists,  
  • SourceWatch AIPAC "In 2004 CBS News reported that an FBI investigation had gained evidence that a senior Pentagon analyst with close ties to Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith had provided a draft presidential directive on Iran to AIPAC that was then passed to the Israeli government."
  • Stewart Webb "Heneghan added that a grand jury heard several agents testify last April that “the Watergate, Ritz-Carlton and Sheraton Hotels in Washington, DC were used to compromise legislators and news-people with prostitution services, the financing of which is directly linked to the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Marc Rich and Abramoff.”
  • StopAIPAC "For too long, policies that support Israeli militarism and occupation have gone unchallenged.  
  • TPMcafe "The Folly of Multiculturalism"
  • Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Troubles for the Israeli Lobby
  • Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Women in Black Spread Message of Peace, Opposition to War, Violence
  •   Link Palfrey, CIA, Foggo, Wilkes, Cunningham? 
  • Norris, Cunningham and Ehrlich, Bob  Governor,  Maryland, a target of  DiBiaggio corruption investigation.  Palfrey related, Washington prostitution, influence peddling.
  • Secrets:  and indictment text file ... Franklin plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to communicate national defense information to one not entitled to receive it, and one count of conspiracy to communicate classified information to an agent of a country not entitled to receive it.  He is now a government witness.  Neither Rosen or Weissman had security clearances, Franklin held a top security clearance during the alleged conspiracy.  NDI code-word-protected information was passed, also secret FBI files relating to the Khobar Towers bombing, faxed information on a draft of US government Middle East policy, and information that related to potential attacks on the U. S. forces in Iraq, and foreign covert actions in Iraq.  Franklin warned Rosen and Weissman that it was all highly classified and they could get into trouble for having the information.  Rosen and Weissman denied to FBI agents they had received the information. 
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  • The book is out.  Buy it from your local bookstore.
  • notes: US regularly uses AIPAC to send back-channel communications to Israel, trial offers behind-the-scenes look at US foreign policy at work, Fox does not mention that Franklin warned them, silent witness rule rejected, file inter alia, federal witness rules, 18 U.S.C. 2, 793(d), CIPA, classified information that may be disclosed at trial, Moussaoui, 
    • Summary
    • Woodward book release, Cheney rival command to stage incident with Russia to help McCain more
    • new lobby: J Street  more below
    • Antiwar, Will Obama Stand Up to the War Party? Don't bet the ranch on it by Justin Raimondo
    • AIPAC trial postponed.
    • Go to latest news
    • The shadow of Israel / AIPAC over Washington.
    • CIA / Carnaby assassination related to Iran Attack, AIPAC, Rosen Weissman,  more 
    • A Times Online (a Rupert Murdoch paper) file pic "A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets. ... Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office
    • WMR August 31, 2005 -- A convergence of investigations: AIPAC and ATC. As reported previously on WMR , federal investigators are poring over wiretap transcripts (Sibel Edmonds) and other intelligence that link the Larry Franklin/Rosen/Weissman AIPAC investigation to the investigation of who in the White House leaked the name of Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover company to journalists, including Robert Novak. 
    • Judge T. S. Ellis III allowed issuance of subpoenas to 16 of 20 government officials including Rice, Hadley.   JTA  This weakens the government case.  Fed prosecutors failed in challenge to subpoenas, see Antiwar 
    • Conservatives use the threat-to-free-speech argument, but this is just a  smokescreen to shield  AIPAC as the leader of US of Israel. The info they passed to Israel was sensitive Iraq Iran secrets ...see  Secrets below.  Mukasey politically speaking has to shut the trial  down.  see Graymail  and Mail Archive below.  
    • Dark Government
    • Deep Journal
    • Defense attorneys say all this just normal channel of US info to Israel.  see US of Israel NFU
    • Sen. Feinstein and Sen. Schumer important in Mukasey (orthodox Jew) AG ascendance.  Wikipedia. Will he stop the case and protect AIPAC?
    • FAS Rosen Weissman case files.
    • This is the most important trial in the last 50 years and is being completely suppressed by mainstream media all over the world ... confirming the power of the Israeli leadership.  Its a complex case. The Israeli-controlled US media though won't have a problem spinning it away from  the dumbed-down, distracted readers of America.
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    • Will the Kadish affair keep Rosen Weissman alive? more
  • AlArab "Frustrated with Bush, the Veep Urges Israel to Attack Iran ... Clemens cites a Cheney aide as indicating "that Cheney himself is frustrated with President Bush and believes, much like Richard Perle, that Bush is making a disastrous mistake" by supporting the diplomatic approach to Iran apparently favored by the State Department. So Cheney plans to deploy an "end run strategy" around the president (who's more swayed at present by Condi Rice's "realists" than Cheney's neocons) if his flank doesn't prevail and Bush resists the demand of the neocons and the AIPAC lobby for a bloody showdown."
  • A Q Khan, Pakistan, nuclear black market, scapegoat for Germans, French, South Africans, 70 countries supply Pakistan nuclear program.
  • American Press Institute Poking holes in our history in pursuit of leaks, and see Jack Anderson.
  • Coalition for Jewish Concerns, dispel notion that the Jewish people are somehow disloyal to the countries in which they reside, 
  • Electronic Intifada, Israel Lobby Watch
  • FAS Rosen Weissman case files
  • Findlaw "Will the Precedent Set by the Indictment in a Pentagon Leak Case Spell Trouble for Those Who Leaked Valerie Plame's Identity to the Press?"
  • JTA  "Defense: Feds eyeballed AIPAC until it cut off Rosen, Weissman"
  • Jurist Federal judge rules Espionage Act constitutional in lobbyists leak case
  • Legal Times
  • LRB London Review of Books ... London Review of Books published John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's essay 'The Israel Lobby'. The response to the article prompted the LRB to hold a debate under the heading 'The Israel lobby: does it have too much influence on American foreign policy
  • Los Angeles Times Chalabi, INC, supplied 'intelligence' to WHIG
  • vld-cits-bluecoat1.moody.af.mil (347 Communication Squadron) North Carolina, Jacksonville  -- NFU visitor
  • search terms: Cheney, Libby, Judith Miller and AIPAC, some of the architects of the Iraq War.  
  • Reporters Committee A coalition of media groups asked for permission to intervene in the AIPAC espionage case today, citing an apparent secret request by the U.S. government to hold a substantial portion of the criminal trial of two lobbyists in secret.  The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 12 other groups, including ABC, Inc., The Associated Press, Dow Jones & Co., Reuters, Time, Inc., and the Washington Post, asked to enter the case for the limited purpose of challenging the government's apparent request to close the upcoming trial in this matter, and any other pending or future motion seeking to restrict public access to the trial proceedings or record.
  • Mail Archive, search: AIPAC, Palfrey, compare Ken Ford case, Fed Judge Peter Messitte, possessing classified NSA docs, Waldorf Maryland, Rosenstein, Salem, SIGINT report of no WMD in Iraq, retaliation, Cheney.  TASC and Bearing Point planted the docs, 
  • Muslim News
  • Smart90 Pro Israel Lobbyists To Stand Trial in Spy Case.
  • Abbe Lowell is Rosen's and Abramoff's attorney.  ... AIPAC.
  • Wikipedia "Steve Rosen was the policy director of AIPAC, where he worked for 23 years. He is now under indictment for receiving leaked information and has been fired by AIPAC. He is credited for making AIPAC into the most powerful foreign policy lobby organization in the U.S. (See The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.) Prior to Rosen's arrival at AIPAC, the lobby limited itself to Congressional advocacy. Rosen created its executive branch lobbying program which led him directly into his current troubles. Rosen is considered a political conservative, although he has told media outfits that his parents were "proud left-wing progressives." He has been married six times. (momentmag) He is not to be confused with Stephen P. Rosen at Harvard who is one of the signatories to the controversial PNAC manifesto Rebuilding America's Defenses (2000).
  • Wikipedia, Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal
  • Did Dick Cheney use Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service
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  • Ron Paul names neocons video
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  • Judge T. S. Ellis III allowed issuance of subpoenas to 16 of 20 government officials below see JTA.  but will Mukasey stop  the trial ?  He has to.... all the signals have been sent ... much like Scooter Libby commutation.
  • ABC News, Rosen Weissman trial
  • AEI, Lynne Cheney is a AEI scholar, Lewis Libby is Cheney's chief of Staff. subpoena
  • Will Mukasey sabotage the spy trial?  below
  • AIPAC Rosen Weissman Kerik Giuliani, Kosher Nostra, 'the lobby'
  • American Conservative, The  search Rosen Weissman trial    
  • 10YUHAS-JM14A.mid5.usna.edu (United States Naval Academy) Maryland, Annapolis --NFU visitor 
  • Bush, neocons:  Cheney, Rice, Powell, Perle, Wolfowitz, Reagan, Kristol, Encounter, Weekly Standard, PNAC,  AEI, Heritage Foundation, JINSA, Ben Wattenberg and the real majority, Scoop Jackson, Podheretz, Shachtman, Leo Strauss, Trilling, Marxism resembles Straussianism, Kirkpatrick, Elliot Abrams, Negroponte, permanent revolution, use force to redraw map of middle east, imperialism, unconditional support of Israel, 
  • Kyl-Lieberman        Case 1:05-cr-00225-TSE Document 343-1   and  text file 

  • Feith & Zell, law firm, offices in Washington and Israel, clients, Northrop Grumman, 
  • Forward, The Jewish Daily, Ex-Aipac aide To Seek Dismissal of Case
  • Forward, Rice, Abrams, Hadley subpoenas? and text
  • Grossman, Marc  
  • Harretz "The Rosen-Weissman trial is looming large just ..." and Harretz "negate the government's contention that the information defendants obtained and disclosed was NDI [National Defense Information] by showing that this information was neither closely held by the U.S. government, nor were the disclosures of this information damaging to the U.S."
  • Dov Zakheim (& Cheney), Masterminds of 9/11? ... aircraft company, remote control expertise, executive,  Pentagon Comptroller ... missing $2.3 Trillion.. developed Hillary Clintons Iraq / Iran war strategies?
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  •   see all of NewsFollowUp.com Flight 77 Pentagon research
  • International Advisors, lobby for Turkish government, build strong ties between Israel, US, Turkey
  • Libby Legal Defense Trust Advisory Committee: Sembler, Abraham, Bathgate, Berman, Berstein, Carlson, Eisenburg, Flaum, Forbes,  Fox, Fukuyama, Kamins, Kemp, Kirkpatrick, Kojaian, Leach, Lewis, Malek, Matalin, Merrill, Paxon, Peretz, Reynolds, Rosenwald, Ross, Silver, Simpson, Tessler, Thompson, Woolsey
  • MSNBC Rosen Weissman trial
  • mirbluecoat2.afspc.af.mil (Dod Network Information Center) Massachusetts, Boston -- nfu site visitor
  • New York Sun "A Clash Looms on Secrecy in Aipac Spy Case ... A constitutional clash is looming in a Virginia courtroom after federal prosecutors proposed barring the public from hearing some evidence at the upcoming trial of two former lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Defense lawyers for the two men, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, have objected vigorously to the unusual proposal to present secret evidence"
  • Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Senate supporters, McConnel, Boehner, Lieberman, Pelosi, Amy Friedkin, Gary Ackerman, Tom Lantos, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, ... and Defense Minister Amer Peretz, Executive Director Howard Kohr,
  • Novak, Clinton, Obama article  If Bush blames the Democrats for the Iraq War failure they will lose the 2008 election
  • Politico, Mukasey, Harry Reid vowed to block his confirmation, didn't work.  no Harriet Miers rebellion with Mukasey, 
  • Prothink, Ron Paul, anti Zakheim video
  • Rosen and Weissman  Weissman's attorneys, John Nassikas and Baruch Weiss
  • WSJ Franklin has agreed to testify against Rosen and Weissman
  • Washington Times "The judge has set a high bar for conviction in the AIPAC secrets case, telling prosecutors that they must show the two lobbyists charged under espionage laws knew that the U.S. would be hurt by disclosure of the material that they are accused of passing to reporters and Israeli officials. The defendants, Steven Rosen and Keith 
  • Go to NewsFollowUp.com pages on Cheney ... "isn't not" on Deborah Jeane Palfrey's Dick List and David Letterman monologue.
  • AIPAC implicated in Washington prostitution, blackmail schemes, story by Tom Flocco.com  .... say MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is cooperating with Abramoff probe ... Frist and Novak regular clients. Flocco ... AIPAC financed blackmail.
  • Go to AIPAC Cheney research pages  "No option can be left off the table." Clinton.Senate.gov
  •   Go to NewsFollowUp.com pages on Cheney / Iran attack
  • NFU visitor: btl1s-netche02.dlis.dla.mil (Dla Nemo) Columbus, Ohio
  • notes, witnesses, defendants also seek General Anthony Zinni, information passed was not NDI or damaging to US claims defendants, terms: Touhy, Housekeeping Statute, no difference between meetings where they are charged and meetings where they are not charged, 
  • notes:  Turkish spy ring also intersects with Israeli espionage ring.  ... The Sunday Times of London featured a recent article about a link between the Turkish espionage ring in the US State and Defense Departments and the outing in 2001 of former CIA covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson's Brewster Jennings & Associates non-official cover energy consultancy by the very same Turkish intelligence and influence-peddling ring that also involved former US ambassador to Turkey and Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Marc Grossman. This was first reported in 2006 by WMR. Based on information WMR has received from knowledgeable Pentagon sources, this Turkish espionage ring also included the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) espionage ring and convicted former Defense Intelligence Agency officer Larry Franklin.  search terms: Sensitive Compartmented Information, (SCI), Grossman, leak, Brewster Jennings, cover, Turkish intelligence, 2001, Franklin as Rumsfeld interpreter, pushto, dari, Afghanistan, Karzai photo, speaks Farsi, Urdu, Arabic, Hebrew, ....  Edmonds and the Turkish intelligence ring, wiretaps, OSP, setup by Feith,  source WayneMadsenReport
  • Jewish Journal Madoff is a trustee of the Yeshiva University and a long-time philanthropist in Jewish circles.  ...   According to Yeshiva University, "Bernard L. Madoff, a member of the University's Board of Trustees since 1996, was elected chairman of the Board of Directors of Sy Syms School of Business in 2000. Mr. Madoff is chairman of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, one of the nation's largest third-market dealers in New York Stock Exchange and over-the-counter securities. A benefactor of the University, Mr. Madoff recently made a major gift to the Sy Syms School."  
  • What Does It Mean  Russian Intelligence Analysts are stating today that US Military and Police Forces loyal to President-Elect Obama have staged the largest takedown in American history of a foreign Nations spy service operating within its borders.  ...   According to these reports, New York financier Bernard Madoff [pictured top left] was the target of Obama Forces as he is believed to have masterminded the financing of Israel’s vast espionage operations in the United States since the 1960’s.   ...   Mr. Madoff, who holds duel citizenship in both the United States and Israel, was apprehended this past week while attempting to flee the United States and move billions of Mossad funds out of New York, and which was thwarted by US District Court Judge Louis Stanton who said ‘the order he issued appeared necessary to prevent Madoff or an agent from moving funds out of the court's jurisdiction and to "preserve the status quo" for whatever may come from future proceedings’.   ...   These reports further state that the powerful US Attorney, and Obama ally, Patrick Fitzgerald was behind the takedown of Madoff and his Mossad backers who Fitzgerald has been investigation since the 2005 arrest of Pentagon Official Lawrence Franklin, and who was charged with passing American Military secrets to the powerful American-Jewish Lobby AIPAC which is known to be one of Mossad’s most powerful front organizations operating in the US.   
  • Woodward: "War Within"...Sept 8, release: Cheney has created a  rival chain-of-command, has penetrated US Army, Navy, from Keane to Petraeus,... preceding the election will be a confrontation with Russia, to play into perceived national security weakness of Obama, help McCain / Palin... all related to Minot / Barksdale nuclear transfer incidentGenerals Casey, Abizaid, the operation will coincide with Russia, STABILNOST 2008. (Stability 2008), new cold war, naval presence in Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, USS George Washington, USS Peleliu, 7th Fleet, Russia lately going after Israeli oligarchy, tax evasion, fraud,  more search terms: Kolmakov, Ukraine, Moldova, Ossetia, Abkhazia, Caspian Sea, CSTO, Armenia, IMMEDIATE RESPONSE 2008, CAUCUSUS FRONTIER 2008, COSSACK STEPPE 2008, Nova Demba, Poland, RAPID TRIDENT, Russian Black Sea, Baltic, Northern, Pacific Fleets, warning by Russian General Valery Yevnevich
  • AntiwarThe following is the transcript of my Aug. 13 interview with the courageous FBI linguist/whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. What connection does Sibel Edmonds' story have to the prosecution of Larry Franklin, Steve Rosen, and Keith Weissman of the Pentagon/AIPAC spy scandal? And for that matter, to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001? The answer has something to do with international drug, weapon, and money-laundering rings, and their ties to terrorists and unnamed officials of the Departments of State and Defense. This mess also goes back to at least 1997. Sibel says that when the truth comes out, it will make the AIPAC case look "lame" by comparison. Who are the State Department officials 1 and 2 and the Defense Department officials 1 and 2 referred to in the AIPAC indictments[1][2]? Are they the same unnamed officials in the new Vanity Fair piece about Edmonds? Are these the same neocons who hired Iranian spy Ahmed Chalabi, lied us into war with Iraq, drew up the occupation plans, and leaked the name of Valerie Plame to the press? Is the quashed federal investigation out of Chicago into corruption on the part of high-level members of both parties, referred to in the article as "the reason" Sibel was gagged by John Ashcroft, related to the investigation of terrorist financing by former agent Robert Wright? What does Patrick "Bulldog" Fitzgerald know about it? Which countries involved in the international heroin market are the subject of such "sensitive diplomatic relations" that their involvement in 9/11 should not be known to the people of the United States? Uzbekistan? Tajikistan? Kyrgyzstan? Pakistan? Kosovo?   more 
  • New York Sun Prosecutors Argue for More Secrecy in Aipac Case   "The district court's view that unlawfully conspiring to disclose classified information about troop movements to a foreign government is 'patently' unprotected by the First Amendment, but disclosing classified information to a foreign government about terrorist attacks on those same troops is a 'core value' of the First Amendment proves the point that 'judges ... have little or no background in the delicate business of intelligence gathering,'" prosecutors wrote in the brief filed late Friday night. "Clandestinely obtaining and passing U.S. government classified information to the Israeli government does not represent participation in a 'public debate' to 'influence United States foreign policy.'" search terms: graymail, graymailing, 
  • JTA  The federal judge in the classified information case against two former AIPAC staffers set a trial date of Oct. 28.  Separately, Ellis ruled in favor of the prosecution in allowing as evidence a Washington Post article from June 15 2003; that article, by Michael Dobbs, on Iran policy wars within the Bush administration, quoted senior administration officials as refusing to discuss a directive by President Bush on Iran because it is classified.   ....    The same directive was allegedly the topic of discussion between Rosen, Weissman and Larry Franklin, then a Pentagon Iran analyst. The prosecution intends to use the article to show that Rosen and Weissman likely knew the document, a National Security Presidential Directive, was classified. Franklin has pleaded guilty in the case.
  • Christian Science Monitor "J Street," a new lobby which describes itself as pro-Israel. It's directed by Jeremy Ben-Ami, a former Clinton official whose father fought alongside Menachem Begin for Israel's independence. J Street (a play on the K Street address of many lobbyists), seeks a less hard-line US policy in the Middle East and wants to create an environment in which politicians can confidently discuss such a change without fear of political punishment or being labeled anti-Semitic. Several US groups share J Street's views but they don't have much political muscle. J Street wants to build clout by using the Internet to raise money from small donors, and to contribute to congressional campaigns. ... Next week, it will endorse several candidates who support a major US push for a negotiated, two-state solution to the Palestinian crisis. J Street also favors dialogue with Israel's enemies, including Hamas and Iran; an Israeli-Syrian peace deal; and US withdrawal from Iraq.
  • 16 witnesses Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Hadley National Security Council, Armitage former Deputy Secretary of State, William Burns Ambassador to Russia, Marc Grossman Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Lawrence Silberman (spelled Silverman) Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy to the Slovak Republic, Matthew Bryza, Deputy Assisstant SS, Marc Sievers, U.S Embassy to Israel, David Satterfield Coordinator for Iraq, Dennis Ross, Edward Walker, UAE Egypt, Marc Parris Turkey, Elliot Abrams Global Democracy Strategy Affairs, Bruce Reidel Near East and South Asian Affairs, staff, Paul Wolowitz, Douglas Feith, Michael Makovsky, Kenneth Pollack Persian Gulf Affairs, and last but not least Lawrence Franklin, government objected to all except four including Franklin, Satterfield, Pollack or Makovsky.
  •   Jewish Week  pic, file Trial Of Ex-AIPAC Staffers Postponed, Rice subpoena allowed in AIPAC case as judge pushes trial date to August. Ron Kampeas JTA Alexandria, Va.  Two former AIPAC lobbyists say Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was their informant on sensitive national security matters.  ...  The claim, laid out in a courtroom here last Friday, intensified the drama surrounding a trial that could further roil a Washington political establishment already consumed by cases involving "official" and "unofficial" leaks.  ...  The trial date, originally scheduled to begin April 25, has now been set for Aug. 7, even as the judge in the case continues to suggest the case might not go to trial at all.  ...  In last week's pretrial hearing, lawyers for Steve Rosen, the pro-Israel lobby's former foreign policy director, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, persuaded federal Judge T.S. Ellis III to allow a subpoena for the secretary of state and three other current and former Middle East policy officials.  ...  Rosen and Weissman were indicted last August on charges that they relayed classified information to fellow AIPAC staffers, journalists and diplomats at the Israeli Embassy in Washington.  ... AIPAC fired Rosen and Weissman in March 2005, saying their actions did not comport with the group's practices. Federal prosecutors have made clear that AIPAC is not suspected of wrongdoing.  ...  The judge continued to express grave doubts about the government's case, sympathizing with defense claims that it could impinge on free speech rights, and that it lacked precedent.  ...  When Kevin DiGregory, the lead prosecutor, pointed out that the First Amendment had never been cited in a similar case, Ellis chided him, saying, "Well, no case has been like this one."  ...  Setting out a pretrial schedule, Ellis pointedly would not count out a dismissal before the start of the trial and several times qualified prospective dates, saying "if there is going to be a trial."  full article
  • Institute of Research "While compelled testimony from the authors of the most disastrous foreign policy in the nation's history may seem to be a welcome ray of light, it is unlikely to ever happen. The defense may be counting on this as a "graymail" strategy to get the case thrown out, thereby avoiding the embarrassment of current and former officials. Judge Ellis gave AIPAC reason hope it may work. It is likely that the subpoenaed witness will not appear on grounds of "executive privilege". If Ellis reads the news, he knows that this has already occurred when Bush administration officials refused to appear before Congress to discuss the firing of US attorneys. If this happens again, the case against AIPAC will be over ... "
  • WSJ "Much of the information (passed from Franklin to Rosen, Weissman then to Israel) was about Iran's plans for destabilizing Iraq. Mr. Franklin, who was also indicted, subsequently pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Under intense government pressure he has agreed to testify against his friends, the former AIPAC lobbyists. Their trial is set for January
  • Huffington Post  "Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein's endorsement of Michael Mukasey is stunning.  ... There are more reasons to reject Michael Mukasey's nomination than his evasive answers on waterboarding and unconstitutional expansive views of federal power. Years ago, Michael Mukasey defended the indefensible when his friend, Rudolph Giuliani, then a prosecutor, began subpoenaing defense lawyers before grand juries. ... It was one of the more substantial overreaches of the Giuliani years. And it is of particular relevance in today's criminal cases that bear the terrorism label -- a brand of cases where the government's failure rate today is very high. It can be aimed at the country's best defense lawyers and those lawyers that defend detainee, rendition and terrorism cases."
  • Antiwar "The indictment outlines a series of meetings between Rosen and at least two unidentified U.S. government officials – since identified as David Satterfield and Kenneth Pollack – in which the man who built AIPAC into a lobbying powerhouse turned his organization into a transmission belt that routinely moved classified information from Washington to Tel Aviv. ... The defenders of Rosen and Weissman argue that this is a First Amendment case, but there is no First Amendment right to engage in espionage – or else why aren't the Rosenbergs considered martyrs to the principle of "free speech"? This isn't just about passing information to Israel. Franklin is an associate of neoconservative guru Michael Ledeen and fellow Pentagon analyst Harold Rhode, with whom he traveled to Rome in 2001 to attend an unauthorized meeting with Iranian "dissidents" and the scamster Manucher Ghorbanifar, of Iran-Contra fame (which Ledeen also played a key role in, as Israel's go-between). "
  • SeattlePI "Ellis, an appointee of President Reagan, left open the possibility that the Bush administration may challenge the subpoenas on the grounds they would reveal privileged information. But the judge said his ruling Friday "may trump a valid governmental privilege." ... If so, that could force the government to decide whether to allow the testimony or drop the case.  ... Neither the State Department nor the Justice Department would comment on the ruling.  ... Among those subpoenaed in the case were: former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage; and Marc Grossman, former undersecretary of state for political affairs."
  • Jerusalem Post  "...the arrest of Ben-Ami Kadish, the 84-year-old former US army engineer arrested in New York City on Tuesday (April 2008) on charges of passing classified information to Israel. Even assuming the charges have substance, the circumstances, and especially the timing of his arrest - 23 years after he allegedly last committed an act of espionage on behalf of Israel - raises puzzling and troubling questions" search terms: Israel denies spying after 1985, Kadish, former US Army engineer, passing nuclear weapons information, air defense, fighter jets, Patriot missile, 50-100 documents,  (Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal) between 1979 and 1985, contact with Israeli official, reported to same official (CC-1 Co-conspirator) as Jonathan Pollard, Olmert office silent, Danny Yatom, head of Mossad, DOE, Israeli Aircraft Industries.  CC-1an Israeli attache to the NY consolate, possibly Yossi Yagur, science attache, they talked in March of 2008, Israeli Aerospace Industry, ... and see Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County, all shows that Israel did not come clean about spies in 80s, dual loyalty, 
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PROGRESSIVE Reference CONSERVATIVE *
  • 911 Truth  
  • Vulture Capitalist, ...beware. ... limited hangout news ... no reports on reopening 911 investigation, Russian / Israeli mob, CIA Houston station chief Roland Carnaby murder by HPD.    
  • above: Rep. Betty McCollum, stood up to AIPAC and opposed the anti-Hamas bill Palestinian Anti-Terror Act of 2006.  
  • 9/11 Citizens Watch  challenging the official story of 9/11, and AIPAC, search....
  • 911 SF Indymedia independent 9/11 investigation
  • 9/11 Independent Commission.org  original pdf
  • Agonist
  • American Free Press The Truth about 9/11, Israel...
  • American Prospect Larry Franklin, Iran policy fight
  • American Prospect The Front
  • Antiwar, Justin Raimondo
  • AntiWar AIPAC's overt and covert ops
  • Antiwar pdf file: art students, Israeli spies. Suspicious activities involving Israeli art students at DEA facilities copy
  • JFKMontreal  A Christian Speaks out Against AIPAC
  • Juan Cole, WHIG, AIPAC
  • Cover-up, Lies Contradictions, 9/11
  • Center for CooperativeResearch search: Franklin, Rosen, Weissman
  • CNet on Able Danger, Pentagon, probe
  • Common Dreams AIPAC, Plamegate character links information
  • Consortium News, "Original October Surprise (part 2), search terms, Carter, Reagon, 1980 stolen election, rise of the GOP, Ghorbanifar, Ledeen, Israel, Mossad, missiles, Iran Contra. by Robert Parry
  • Creative Dynamics They Knew
  • Dailykos
  • Dailykos, Judith Miller, AIPAC links
  • FAS U. S. v. Steven J. Rosen Keith, Weisman Criminal Action 1:05 CR 225
  • Gorilla in the Room, Blogspot, Rosen Weissman Refuse to Take the Fall for AIPAC. and see notes
  • Huffington Post Judy Miller, How Deep Do Her Connections Run. search terms: MET Mobile Exploration Team, WMD, 75th Exploration Task Force, General David Petraeus, Ahmad Chalabi,
  • Israeli Peace Camp, Wikipedia movements that strive for peace, with Arab neighbors, Palestinians, Syrians, Lebonese, co-existence with Arab citizens, Peace Now, founded 1977, but agreements dashed when Sharon established new settlements in North Sinai. ... Camp David Agreements trashed by Bush neocons, settlements now monitored on day by day, condemn suicide bombings,  Geneca Accord, 2003, launched by Yossi Beilin, one of architects of Oslo Accords, and Yasser Abed Rabbo, National Census peace initiative by former Shin Bet head Ami Ayalon, Sari Nusseibeh,
  • Lendman Stephen  important blog
  • The Nation  AIPAC's Hold  ...  "The Israel Lobby, ... includes major Jewish groups, neoconservative intellectuals and Christian Zionists ... unconditional support for Israel has become an accepted cost of doing business inside the halls of Congress..."
  • Portland Indymedia and local copy
  • Rense All US Phone Call Records And Billing Done In Israel - Part 2 Carl Cameron Investigates FoxNews.com 12-13-1
  • Rosen 1983, classified doc
  • SourceWatch White House Iraq Group, WHIG.
  • Think Progress  AIPAC’s effort, was to influence WHIG to create standards for invading these countries before Tony Blair had even decided upon the invasion in Iraq
  • Nation, Hall of Mirrors
  • OpEdNews submit content
  • War and Piece, International News Commentary by Laura Rozen
  • Village Voice" Right Says Wrong on Miers
  • Village Voice,What's the Deal with Delay Indictment
  • Village Voice,Unwagging the Doc
  • Washington Monthly Iran Contra II
  • Notes: "It was Ledeen who, as a consultant to Alexander Haig, President Reagan's secretary of state, helped broker the initial secret arms-for-hostages deal with Iran in 1985 that became part of the Iran-Contra scandal. More recently, he introduced his partner in that deal, Parisian-based Iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar, to two Farsi-speaking Pentagon officials, Lawrence A. Franklin and Harold Rhode" Boston Globe and link to Judith Miller at Dailykos
  • Middle East AIPAC money to Congress
  • EIR War Pary Exposes Itself as the Campus Gestapo
  • Findlaw "Will the Precedent Set by the Indictment in a Pentagon Leak Case Spell Trouble for Those Who Leaked Valerie Plame's Identity to the Press?"
  • Findlaw Espionage Act text
  • Jewish Exponent "The deputy U.S. attorney general who indicted two former AIPAC staffers on classified information charges resigned ... McNulty ... In a development in the AIPAC case, the organization reached a deal with lawyers for Weissman, its former Iran analyst, to pay for his defense against Espionage Act charges"
  • LA Times, Overthrow Tehran, Hey Not so Fast
  • Miller subpoena excerpt
  • Los Angeles Times Chalabi, INC, supplied 'intelligence' to WHIG
  • MEK due to the support of 150 Congressional members, and the powerful AIPAC lobby group, has been blessed with the ‘special person status’ and enjoys protection under the Geneva Convention now speaks of Article 21C
  • PeterLance.com Peter Lance 9/11, Al Queda, the mob, Fitzgerald, Bin Laden, Bush, Cheney
  • Washington Post Kurt Weldon, missing chart
  • Notes
  • Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University "Kit Bond's anti-whistle blower, anti-accountability bill  ...   Senate Bill 3774 is the latest piece of legislation allegedly aimed at protecting national security. Introduced by Senator Kit Bond (R-MO), it would criminalize unauthorized disclosure of classified information. This bill is dangerously vague and provides virtually unlimited discretion to the Department of Justice in deciding whom to prosecute. It would be a catastrophe for reporters and the free press.  Search AIPAC, Rosen, Weissman   
  • SeattlePI
  • US News In the Pentagon, in addition to the normal public affairs structure, the Special Plans Office was deeply involved in this effort, supported (with information) by the Iraqi National Congress. There was the Rendon Group, headed by John Rendon who gave media advice to OSD, the Joint Staff and the White House. Finally, there were connections to large PSYOPS activities.
  • Washington Post "Judge Won't Dismiss Pro-Israel Spy Case ... U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III ruled that the 1917 Espionage Act is not unconstitutionally broad and vague when it seeks to bar receipt or disclosure of "information related to the national defense."
  • YNet News "Report: AIPAC focus of fresh FBI probe ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing whether Congresswoman Jane Harman and the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC improperly cooperated to secure Harman is reelected as the top Democrat member on the House Intelligence Committee, the Time Magazine reports. and Time Magazine
  • see more GOP sex scandal
  •   'War on Terror' lies research
  • notes  AIPAC has marshaled its "amen corner" of Democrats in Congress in co-sponsorship support of the blockade resolution, including: Brad Sherman (D-CA), Henry Waxman (D-CA), Jane Harman (D-CA), Robert Wexler (D-FL), Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL), Ron Klein (D-FL), Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Shelley Berkley (D-NV), Steve Rothman (D-NJ), Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Dan Boren (D-OK), Allyson Schwartz (D-PA), Joe Sestak (D-PA), Stephen Cohen (D-TN), and Steve Kagen (D-WI) in the House and Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Bob Casey (D-PA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Patty Murray (D-WA), and Maria Cantwell (D-WA).  source WMR
  • The Charges in United States v. Franklin: Conspiracy to Violate the Espionage Act,   from Findlaw

    The indictment charges against all three men with conspiracy to communicate national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 793(g) - a provision of the Espionage Act that requires that at least one of the co-conspirators acts in a manner to "effect the object of the conspiracy." (The "overt act" requirement is a common feature of conspiracy law, designed to prevent mere conversations from becoming the basis for criminal charges.)  To this end, the grand jury has also indicted Franklin on three counts of violating 18 U.S.C. § 793(d), which makes it a crime for a person, "lawfully having possession of, access to, control over, or being entrusted with . . . information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation," to communicate it "to any person not entitled to receive it." The indictment asserts that Franklin's disclosures to Rosen, an American lobbyist, violated the Espionage Act. (Each violation carries a prison term of up to ten years.)  In addition, Rosen has also been indicted on one count of violating 18 U.S.C. § 793(e), which makes it illegal for someone who is not authorized to have access to classified national defense information to "willfully retain," let alone "willfully communicate," such information.  The implication of the charge against Rosen is, strikingly, that any private citizen who receives classified information, and then turns around and discloses it to any other private citizen, is violating the Espionage Act.  

  • YNet News "Sources told Time that the probe has been going on for months. The probe would try to determine whether Harman and AIPAC enlisted wealthy supporters to "lobby" House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi to reappoint Harman.   According to the sources, Israeli businessman Haim Saban is one of the wealthy individuals who lobbied for Pelosi on behalf of Harman. Saban contributed at least USD 3,000 to Harman's election campaign, congressional sources told Time.  Two senior AIPAC lobbyists are awaiting sentencing as part of an investigation that led to the suspension and imprisonment of former Defense Intelligence Agency official Lawrence A. Franklin, who pleaded guilty to having passed on classified intelligence to the two lobbyists.   AIPAC fired lobbyists Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, who are accused of receiving classified information on terrorism and the Middle East from Franklin.  Harman: No knowledge of probe   ... The investigation will also attempt to determine whether AIPAC lobbied for Franklin to get a position at the National Security Council. According to the probe's findings, Franklin requested that AIPAC members "put in a good word" for him at the NSC in exchange for the documents he relayed to them. AIPAC, on its part, considered such an appointment to be beneficial for the organization, as it would put Franklin in a position close to the president, and said that they would do their best on the matter, the FBI claimed.  Harman's attorney told the Time that: "(Congresswoman Harman) is not aware of any such investigation, does not believe that it is occurring, and wanted to make sure that you and your editors knew that as far as she knows, that's not true... .
  • WayneMadsenReport " The word is that Harman's involvement with AIPAC has torpedoed her chances of becoming HPSCI chair with California's two Democratic Senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both weighing in with Pelosi against Harman becoming chairman."
  • WayneMadsenReport "Federal law enforcement sources report that a senior retired Mossad officer is the subject of a sealed indictment in the Larry Franklin-America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) espionage case. The retired officer, a former terrorism adviser to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, worked under a relatively new type of Israeli intelligence cover in Washington -- association with a think tank, in this case the neo-conservative Hudson Institute. The subject of the sealed indictment and other Israeli agents using U.S. think tank cover operate as handlers for spies like Franklin and others."
  • MediaMonitors " The spurned Harman embarked on an aggressive campaign to persuade Pelosi to reappoint her. According to Time, the alternative LA Weekly reported that Harman “had some major contributors call Pelosi to impress on her the importance of keeping her as head of the House Intelligence Committee. These tactics did not endear Harman to Pelosi.”  Among those who called Pelosi on Harman’s behalf, according to Time, was billionaire Zionist Haim Saban.  Harman has hired GOP super lawyer Ted Olson, a former solicitor general, because, Olson told Time, “she is not aware of any such [FBI] investigation, does not believe it is occurring and wanted to make sure you and your editors know that as far as she knows, that’s not true…No one from the Justice Department has contacted her.”
  • CounterPunch "Vintage Zionist bravado was uncorked by Benjamin Netanyahu during his closed-door meeting last month with American contributors to an Israeli military recruitment program targeting ultra-religious Jews. The American-educated former Israeli Prime Minister, now hardline opposition leader and magnet for the right, has called for a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Iran. Netanyahu was the original recipient of the neo-con expansionist "clean break" blueprint in the nineties, which was eventually recycled back in the U.S. as the Program for a New American Century.
  • Asia Times, "Let us not forget that the Iraq crisis today is also a crisis of American hegemony," a Tehran political analyst told this author recently, adding that a net benefit of this "double crisis" for Iran has been the absence of an invasion by the US - the augment being that in all probability the US would have invaded Iran by now had it succeeded in Iraq." 
  • WMR Dan Senor, who served under CPA viceroy L. Paul Bremer III, was seen as carrying the water for extreme right-wing and pro-Israelis inside the Pentagon and the Likud government in Israel. Senor was an intern for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). His sister is the head of the AIPAC office in Jerusalem and his brother-in-law is the editorial page editor for the neocon Jerusalem Post. Senor was also a director of the US-Israel Business Exchange (USIBEX) and was an senior associate of The Carlyle Group. Senor served as McClellan's deputy press secretary at the White House before taking the CPA job in Baghdad. Senor is married to NBC News correspondent Campbell Brown.  (see also: Tony Snow)
How Bush neo-cons and AIPAC are using the Franklin, Rosen Weissman indictments to undermine freedom of the press in America.
  • The successful prosecution of Franklin, Rosen and Weissman and bills like Senate Bill 3774 enables Bush administration to prosecute anyone they choose for leaking classified information.
  • This sets a dangerous precedent and undermines a free press.
  • Does this put the 'left' in the curious position of defending these indicted individuals even considering they were enabling neo-con schemes?

 

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Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University "Kit Bond's anti-whistle blower, anti-accountability bill  ...   Senate Bill 3774 is the latest piece of legislation allegedly aimed at protecting national security.  Introduced by Senator Kit Bond (R-MO), it would criminalize unauthorized disclosure of classified information. This bill is dangerously vague and provides virtually unlimited discretion to the Department of Justice in deciding whom to prosecute. It would be a catastrophe for reporters and the free press.  Search AIPAC, Rosen, Weissman  

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PROGRESSIVE Reference CONSERVATIVE
  • Antiwar 
  • Common Dreams  FBI Probes Pentagon Spy Case
  • The Truth Seeker  Iran: The Next War By James Bamford – Rolling Stone Magazine July, 2006  ..."The CBS Evening News carried an exclusive report by correspondent Lesley Stahl that the U.S. government had "rock-solid" evidence that Chalabi had been passing extremely sensitive intelligence to Iran—evidence so sensitive that it could "get Americans killed.  ...  The revelation shocked Franklin and other members of Feith's office. If true, the allegations meant that they had just launched a war to put into power an agent of their mortal enemy, Iran. Their man—the dissident leader who sat behind the first lady in the president's box during the State of the Union address in which Bush prepared the country for war—appeared to have been working for Iran all along.
  • Indymedia, San Francisco
  • Lendman Stephen  important blog
  • War and Piece
  • and OpEd article in Los Angeles Times below
  • Arab News 
  • CBS News
  • CBS News "Israeli Diplomat, Spy Suspect Met FBI Probing Pentagon Analyst Suspected Of Spying For Israel
  • CBS News, Aug 30, 2004,  ...  The Israeli diplomat was identified as Naor Gilon, head of the political department at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, and a specialist on Iran's nuclear weapons program."
  • Leslie Stahl   First to report AIPAC investigation leak.
  • Kavkaz Center "Over breakfast at the Ritz-Carlton, Franklin told the two lobbyists about a draft of a top-secret National Security Presidential Directive that dealt with U.S. policy on Iran. Crafted by Michael Rubin, the desk officer for Iraq and Iran in Feith's office, the document called, in essence, for regime change in Iran.
  • JonathanPollard
  • Jonathan Pollard "CIA Ripped on Recruiting Charges ...  Charges by a mysterious CIA official that Israel recruits religious American Jews to spy on the United States has sparked outrage from several Jewish leaders and a call for a public CIA response".
  • ABCNews limited, buried articles on this case.
  • AIPAC
  • CAMERA "Questions have also begun to be raised about the lead investigator in the AIPAC case, senior FBI counterintelligence officer David Szady, who has a history of investigating the wrong suspect in espionage cases, and who has also been accused of targeting Jews who work for American security agencies ..."
  • CBS original report
  • Frontpage Magazine Did CBS Smear Israel and AIPAC
  • FoxNews  limited, buried articles on this case.
  • Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Israeli Responses to the FBI's Espionage Investigation Leak - A Compendium
  • JTA, on Ciralsky
  • NBC News  limited, buried articles on this case.
  • New York Sun search
  • New York Sun, Judge Okays Wiretaps and Searches in AIPAC Lobbyist Case
 News Research:

Judith Miller, Stephen Hadley, Ahmad Chalabi

PROGRESSIVE Reference CONSERVATIVE
  • Dailykos, Niger forgeries timeline,..... Tenet, Armitage, and Hadley are all aware of the meetings. : Franklin, Rhode, and Ledeen attend, as do Nicolo Pollari (head of SISMI) and Antonio Martino (Italian Minister of Defense
  • Center for Media and Democracy  "The First Casualty ... Paul Moran was killed by a suicide bomber in northern Iraq on 22nd March 2003, just three days into a war that he had—perhaps unknowingly—helped to start.  ... search terms Rendon Group propaganda, the first casualty of war: truth, INC, Chalabi, WMD, Iraq invasion, al-Haideri, CIA, Iran, Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, whose sister, Sandra Libby, happens to be John Rendon's wife.
  • Huffington Post Judy Miller, How Deep Do Her Connections Run. search terms: MET Mobile Exploration Team, WMD, 75th Exploration Task Force, General David Petraeus, Ahmad Chalabi,
  • Juan Cole, WHIG, AIPAC
  • Miller spiked media, Hutton, Kelly
  • OpEdNews submit content
  • Indymedia James Petras, new book: The Power of Israel in the United States.  How the Jewish Lobby dominates US foreign policy  
  • Lendman Stephen  important blog
  • Miller subpoena excerpt
  • Wikipedia Judith Miller
  • Los Angeles Times Chalabi, INC, supplied 'intelligence' to WHIG
  • Notes: Able Danger, Pentagon barred Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and Pentagon Able Danger contractor J. D. Smith from  testifying at Weldon hearing.
  • Able Danger project: sift through volumes of unclassified data in an effort to identify people with links to Al Qaeda.
  • Did Dick Cheney call Deborah Jeane Palfrey, escort service?
  • AEI, Lynne Cheney is a AEI scholar,  Lewis Libby is Cheney's chief of Staff.
  • AIPAC
  • JTA "Somewhere between the benign inanities of water-cooler gossip and documents stamped “Top Secret” churns a wide gray sea of information that quenches the thirst of the lobbyists, legislators, political junkies and journalists who populate Washington.  
    Most of them ignore the cheap gossip and turn their ears away from the deepest secrets, but the material in between — all of which comes under the vast rubric of “inside information” — is treated like gold here. Careers are made, agendas advanced and ideas are sold based on conversations over intimate lunches and dinners in restaurants, during long phone calls and on chatty, rambling walks. 
    That could change depending on the outcome of expected trials for the alleged unauthorized use of classified information of two former senior staffers at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and a midlevel Pentagon analyst. On Aug. 4, Paul McNulty, the federal prosecutor in eastern Virginia, unsealed the Justice Department’s indictment against Steve Rosen, AIPAC’s former director of foreign policy issues; Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst; and Larry Franklin, a former Pentagon Iran analyst.  In doing so, he made it clear that from now on, those who receive classified information should be as wary as those who dispense it.  “Those entrusted with safeguarding our nation’s secrets must remain faithful to that trust,” McNulty said.  
    “Those not authorized to receive classified information must resist the temptation to acquire it, no matter what their motivation may be.” He said there was “a clear line in the law” against dealing in classified information.
Notes  Jack Anderson
  • Gorilla in the Room "The expert, Uzi Arad, head of the Institute for Policy and Strategy at Israel's Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, said that two months ago FBI agents interviewed him about his contacts with the Pentagon Iran specialist, Larry Franklin. During the hour-long interview, he said, the FBI agents brought up the name of an American Jewish Committee official, Eran Lerman, who is a former senior official in Israeli military intelligence"
  • Los Angeles Times  Speaking frankly about Israel and Palestine  Jimmy Carter says his recent book is drawing knee-jerk accusations of anti-Israel bias.  By Jimmy Carter, JIMMY CARTER was the 39th president of the United States. His newest book is "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," published last month. He is scheduled to sign books Monday at Vroman's in Pasadena.  December 8, 2006

    "I SIGNED A CONTRACT with Simon & Schuster two years ago to write a book about the Middle East, based on my personal observations as the Carter Center monitored three elections in Palestine and on my consultations with Israeli political leaders and peace activists.

    We covered every Palestinian community in 1996, 2005 and 2006, when Yasser Arafat and later Mahmoud Abbas were elected president and members of parliament were chosen. The elections were almost flawless, and turnout was very high - except in East Jerusalem, where, under severe Israeli restraints, only about 2% of registered voters managed to cast ballots.

    The many controversial issues concerning Palestine and the path to peace for Israel are intensely debated among Israelis and throughout other nations - but not in the United States. For the last 30 years, I have witnessed and experienced the severe restraints on any free and balanced discussion of the facts. This reluctance to criticize any policies of the Israeli government is because of the extraordinary lobbying efforts of the American-Israel Political Action Committee and the absence of any significant contrary voices.

    It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. Very few would ever deign to visit the Palestinian cities of Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, Gaza City or even Bethlehem and talk to the beleaguered residents. What is even more difficult to comprehend is why the editorial pages of the major newspapers and magazines in the United States exercise similar self-restraint, quite contrary to private assessments expressed quite forcefully by their correspondents in the Holy Land.

    With some degree of reluctance and some uncertainty about the reception my book would receive, I used maps, text and documents to describe the situation accurately and to analyze the only possible path to peace: Israelis and Palestinians living side by side within their own internationally recognized boundaries. These options are consistent with key U.N. resolutions supported by the U.S. and Israel, official American policy since 1967, agreements consummated by Israeli leaders and their governments in 1978 and 1993 (for which they earned Nobel Peace Prizes), the Arab League's offer to recognize Israel in 2002 and the International Quartet's "Roadmap for Peace," which has been accepted by the PLO and largely rejected by Israel.

    The book is devoted to circumstances and events in Palestine and not in Israel, where democracy prevails and citizens live together and are legally guaranteed equal status.

    Although I have spent only a week or so on a book tour so far, it is already possible to judge public and media reaction. Sales are brisk, and I have had interesting interviews on TV, including "Larry King Live," "Hardball," "Meet the Press," "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," the "Charlie Rose" show, C-SPAN and others. But I have seen few news stories in major newspapers about what I have written.

    Book reviews in the mainstream media have been written mostly by representatives of Jewish organizations who would be unlikely to visit the occupied territories, and their primary criticism is that the book is anti-Israel. Two members of Congress have been publicly critical. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for instance, issued a statement (before the book was published) saying that "he does not speak for the Democratic Party on Israel." Some reviews posted on Amazon.com call me "anti-Semitic," and others accuse the book of "lies" and "distortions." A former Carter Center fellow has taken issue with it, and Alan Dershowitz called the book's title "indecent."

    Out in the real world, however, the response has been overwhelmingly positive. I've signed books in five stores, with more than 1,000 buyers at each site. I've had one negative remark - that I should be tried for treason - and one caller on C-SPAN said that I was an anti-Semite. My most troubling experience has been the rejection of my offers to speak, for free, about the book on university campuses with high Jewish enrollment and to answer questions from students and professors. I have been most encouraged by prominent Jewish citizens and members of Congress who have thanked me privately for presenting the facts and some new ideas.

    The book describes the abominable oppression and persecution in the occupied Palestinian territories, with a rigid system of required passes and strict segregation between Palestine's citizens and Jewish settlers in the West Bank. An enormous imprisonment wall is now under construction, snaking through what is left of Palestine to encompass more and more land for Israeli settlers. In many ways, this is more oppressive than what blacks lived under in South Africa during apartheid. I have made it clear that the motivation is not racism but the desire of a minority of Israelis to confiscate and colonize choice sites in Palestine, and then to forcefully suppress any objections from the displaced citizens. Obviously, I condemn any acts of terrorism or violence against innocent civilians, and I present information about the terrible casualties on both sides.

    The ultimate purpose of my book is to present facts about the Middle East that are largely unknown in America, to precipitate discussion and to help restart peace talks (now absent for six years) that can lead to permanent peace for Israel and its neighbors. Another hope is that Jews and other Americans who share this same goal might be motivated to express their views, even publicly, and perhaps in concert. I would be glad to help with that effort."

Franklingate .....instances of child sexual and physical abuse linked to the Franklin Community Credit Union (Omaha, Nebraska) scandal....  boys and girls, some from foster homes were transported around the country by airplane to provide sexual favors.... tracked to the White House.
source: Global Research forum, ...Juan Cole, & more
 
Israeli Spy Network in the U.S.

On Saturday, The U.S. Defense Department announced The FBI was investigating a high-level Pentagon analyst suspected of being an Israeli spy and passing secret information about Iran to the Jewish state, U.S. government sources said.  The FBI has spent more than a year covertly investigating, including with the use of electronic surveillance, whether a Pentagon analyst passed secret information to Israel, officials said.  Prosecutors were still weighing whether to bring the most serious charge of espionage.

If indeed the U.S. media is looking out for the best interests of the American people, then the story of the uncovering a spy operating for Israel from the United States should be the story of the century.  Israel has been spying on the U.S. government for decades, yet nobody heard about it, as it was never reported by the Mainstream Media Outlets.  Spying and covert operations against the People of the United States by the Israelis has become so transparent that ex-director of the National Security Agency, a Jew, Sandy Berger has been caught red handed pilfering documents related to the 9-11 attack that may have implicated Israelis as the culprits.

The U S. Defense Department is full of Israeli Spies, like Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Dov Zakheim, and is now being investigated by the FBI.  Right before to 9/11 attacks, the FBI had a "massive spy ring" operating from the heart of the United States run by the government of Israel. What a harsh gratitude from a nation which obtains 10% of its annual budget from the American taxpayer, $3+ billion a year. For so long have the American taxpayers been required to send Israel more than four times what the U.S. spent to go to the moon.

Thus, Israel set up government subsidized telecommunications companies which operate in the United States. One of these companies is Amdocs, which provides billing and directory assistance for 90% of the phone companies in the USA. Amdocs' main computer center for billing is actually in Israel and allows those with access to do what intelligence agencies call "traffic analysis"; a picture of someone's activities based on a pattern of who they are calling and when.

Another Israeli telecom company is Comverse Infosys, which subcontracts the installation of the automatic tapping equipment now built into every phone system in America. Comverse maintains its own connections to all this phone tapping equipment, claiming that it is merely for maintenance purposes. However, Converse has been named as the most likely source for leaked information regarding telephone calls by law enforcement that derailed several investigations into not only espionage, but drug running as well.

Even the White House phones calls were recorded and listened to on the other end outside the White House itself.  The Ken Starr report on Whitewater describes how Bill Clinton informed Monica Lewinsky that their phone sex conversations were being taped. At the same time, Clinton ordered the FBI to cease the hunt for an Israeli mole known to be operating inside the White House itself!  "Investigators within the DEA, INS and FBI have all told Fox News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying ... is considered career suicide."

[Carl Cameron, as quoted in The Spies Who Came In From The Art Sale.]  Actually there’s nothing new about Israel spying on the United States. When Jonathan Pollard stole nuclear secrets and passed them to Israel, immediately Israel passed those secrets to the USSR in exchange for increased emigration quotas.

The fact that there is a nation able to listen in on most phones at will, using taps that cannot be found because they are built into the phone system itself, and willing to use the information gleaned from those calls is really horrific to the whole world, not just the Americans. This may well be what Ariel Sharon meant when he stated that the Jewish people control America.  Although information the latest Israeli spy is accused of passing is classified as highly secretive as it describes Bush administration policy toward Iran, there is a possibility that prosecutors would determine that the crime involved falls short of espionage and could result in lesser charges of mishandling classified documents, according to a U.S. officials.  What would make the U.S. government cover up the massive Israel spies operating inside it?

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Five Men Detained As Suspected Conspirators  by Paulo Lima The Bergen Record [New Jersey newspaper] September 12, 2001 http://www.bergen.com/news/2bombvan200109125.htm

Eight hours after terrorists struck Manhattan's tallest skyscrapers, police in Bergen County detained five men who they said were found carrying maps linking them to the blasts. The five men, who were in a van stopped on Route 3 in East Rutherford around 4:30 p.m., were being questioned by police but had not been charged with any crime late Tuesday.

However, sources close to the investigation said they found other evidence linking the men to the bombing plot. "There are maps of the city in the car with certain places highlighted," the source said. "It looked like they're hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park."

Sources also said that bomb-sniffing dogs reacted as if they had detected explosives. The FBI seized the van for further testing, authorities said. Sources said the van was stopped as it headed east on Route 3, between the Hackensack River bridge and the Sheraton hotel. As a precaution, police shut down Route 3 traffic in both directions after the stop and evacuated a small roadside motel near the Sheraton.

Sources close to the investigation said the men said they were Israeli tourists, but police had not been able to confirm their identities. Authorities would not release their names. East Rutherford officers stopped the van after the FBI's Newark Office broadcast an alert asking surrounding police departments to look for a white Chevrolet van, police said.

"We got an alert to be on the lookout for a white Chevrolet van with New Jersey registration and writing on the side," said Bergen County Police Chief John Schmidig. "Three individuals were seen celebrating in Liberty State Park after the impact. They said three people were jumping up and down."

East Rutherford officers summoned the county bomb squad, New Jersey state troopers, and FBI agents, who waited alongside the van as prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office tried to obtain a warrant to search the van late Tuesday, Schmidig said. The FBI alert, known as a BOLO or "Be On Lookout," was sent out at 3:31 p.m. It read:

"Vehicle possibly related to New York terrorist attack. White, 2000 Chevrolet van with New Jersey registration with 'Urban Moving Systems' sign on back seen at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, at the time of first impact of jetliner into World Trade Center. "Three individuals with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion. FBI Newark Field Office requests that, if the van is located, hold for prints and detain individuals."

State police Col. Barry W. Roberson confirmed the traffic stop at a late night news briefing at state police headquarters in Trenton. He would not elaborate, however. A business traveler staying at the Homestead Studio Hotel said she watched state troopers drive the suspects away in a procession of state police cars about 5 p.m. "First, they told us we could hang out in the lobby, but then they told us to leave," the traveler said.

At 10 p.m., the hotel guest said she could see at least two police officers searching through the van while a crowd of other officers kept their distance.

THE MOTHER OF ALL SCANDALS Once again, Israel has been caught with spies at the highest levels of the US Government. Once again Israel denies wrongdoing, or faced with incontrovertible evidence (in this case one of the spies has reportedly cooperated with the FBI) dismisses the spying with the claim that such spying is harmless, because Israel and the United States are such good friends.

Well, let us take a closer look at that idea of “harmless espionage” by recalling Israel’s most famous failed spy, Jonathan Pollard.

Jonathan Pollard is an American of Jewish descent, born in Galveston Texas, who established a career as an intelligence analyst for the US Navy. There have been many theories offered as to why Pollard decided to betray his country of birth to the Jewish state, but that Pollard did betray his country of birth to Israel is beyond all doubt. Pollard’s defense was that he did not spy so much against the United States, only that he spied for Israel, sending them documents that in his opinion the US should have shared with Israel anyway.

That it was never Pollards job to decide what documents Israel should have was apparently irrelevant. Pollard arrogated that authority to himself. From his position of trust within the US Navy, Pollard delivered over 1000 classified documents to Israel for which he was well paid. Included in those documents were the names of over 150 US agents in the Mideast, who were eventually “turned” into agents for Israel.

But by far the most egregious damage done by Pollard was to steal classified documents relating to the US Nuclear Deterrent relative to the USSR and send them to Israel. According to sources in the US State Department, Israel then turned around and traded those stolen nuclear secrets to the USSR in exchange for increased emigration quotas from the USSR to Israel. Other information that found its way from the US to Israel to the USSR resulted in the loss of American agents operating inside the USSR. Casper Weinberger, in his affidavit opposing a reduced sentence for Pollard, described the damage done to the United States thus, "[It is] difficult to conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by... Pollard's treasonous behavior."

This should end the suggestion that Israel’s spies are harmless. They are not. The United States’ nuclear deterrent cost an estimated five trillion taxpayer dollars during the 50s and 60s to build and maintain, and less than $100,000 for Pollard to undermine. Israel waited 13 years to admit Pollard had been spying for them, and now lobbies for his release, having granted him Israeli citizenship.

Pollard is hardly the only Israeli spy operating in the United States. He just had the misfortune to get caught. Here are just a few examples of the Israeli spy operations that have been detected.

1947. Information collected by the ADL in its spy operations on US citizens is used by the House Select Committee on Unamerican Activities. Subcommittee Chair Clare Hoffman dismisses the ADL’s reports on suspected communists as “hearsay."

1950 John Davitt, former chief of the Justice Department's internal security section notes that the Israeli intelligence service is the second most active in the United States after the Soviets.

1954 A hidden microphone planted by the Israelis is discovered in the Office of the US Ambassador in Tel Aviv.

1956 Telephone taps are found connected to two telephones in the residence of the US military attaché in Tel Aviv.

1954 "The Lavon Affair". Israeli agents recruit Egyptian citizens of Jewish descent to bomb Western targets in Egypt, and plant evidence to frame Arabs, in an apparent attempt to upset US-Egyptian relations. Israeli defense minister Pinchas Lavon is eventually removed from office, though many think real responsibility lay with David Ben-Gurion.

1965 Israel apparently illegally obtains enriched uranium from NUMEC Corporation. (Washington Post, 6/5/86, Charles R. Babcock, "US an Intelligence Target of the Israelis, Officials Say.")

1967 Israel attacks the USS Liberty, an intelligence gathering vessel flying a US flag, killing 34 crew members. See "Assault on the Liberty," by James M. Ennes, Jr. (Random House). In 2004, Captain Ward Boston, Senior Legal Counsel for the Navy’s Court of Inquiry into the attack swears under oath that President Lyndon Johnson ordered the investigation to conclude accident, even though the evidence indicates the attack was deliberate. Given the use by Israel of unmarked boats and planes, and the machine-gunning of USS Liberty’s lifeboats, the most likely explanation is that USS Liberty was to be sunk with all hands, with evidence left to frame Egypt for the sinking. This would have dragged the US into the war on Israel’s side.

1970 While working for Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Richard Perle is caught by the FBI giving classified information to Israel. Nothing is done.

1978, Stephen Bryen, then a Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer, is overheard in a DC hotel offering confidential documents to top Israeli military officials. Bryen obtains a lawyer, Nathan Lewin, and the case heads for the grand jury, but is mysteriously dropped. Bryen later goes to work for Richard Perle.

1979 Shin Beth [the Israeli internal security agency] tries to penetrate the US Consulate General in Jerusalem through a “Honey Trap”, using a clerical employee who was having an affair with a Jerusalem girl.

1985 The New York Times reports the FBI is aware of at least a dozen incidents in which American officials transferred classified information to the Israelis, quoting [former Assistant Director of the F.B.I.] Mr. [Raymond] Wannal. The Justice Department does not prosecute.

1985 Richard Smyth, the owner of MILCO, is indicted on charges of smuggling nuclear timing devices to Israel (Washington Post, 10/31/86).

1987 April 24 Wall Street Journal headline: "Role of Israel in Iran-Contra Scandal Won't be Explored in Detail by Panels"

1992 The Wall Street Journal reports that Israeli agents apparently tried to steal Recon Optical Inc's top-secret airborne spy-camera system.

1992 Stephen Bryen, caught offering confidential documents to Israel in 1978, is serving on board of the pro-Israeli Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs while continuing as a paid consultant -- with security clearance -- on exports of sensitive US technology.

1992 "The Samson Option," by Seymour M. Hersh reports, “Illicitly obtained intelligence was flying so voluminously from LAKAM into Israeli intelligence that a special code name, JUMBO, was added to the security markings already on the documents. There were strict orders, Ari Ben-Menashe recalled: "Anything marked JUMBO was not supposed to be discussed with your American counterparts."

1993. The ADL is caught operating a massive spying operation on critics of Israel, Arab-Americans, the San Francisco Labor Council, ILWU Local 10, Oakland Educational Association, NAACP, Irish Northern Aid, International Indian Treaty Council, the Asian Law Caucus and the San Francisco police. Data collected was sent to Israel and in some cases to South Africa. Pressure from Jewish organizations forces the city to drop the criminal case, but the ADL settles a civil lawsuit for an undisclosed sum of cash.

1995 The Defense Investigative Service circulates a memo warning US military contractors that "Israel aggressively collects [US] military and industrial technology." The report stated that Israel obtains information using "ethnic targeting, financial aggrandizement, and identification and exploitation of individual frailties" of US citizens.

1996 A General Accounting Office report "Defense Industrial Security: Weaknesses in US Security Arrangements With Foreign-Owned Defense Contractors" found that according to intelligence sources "Country A" (identified by intelligence sources as Israel, Washington Times, 2/22/96) "conducts the most aggressive espionage operation against the United States of any US ally." The Jerusalem Post (8/30/96) quoted the report, "Classified military information and sensitive military technologies are high-priority targets for the intelligence agencies of this country." The report described "An espionage operation run by the intelligence organization responsible for collecting scientific and technologic information for [Israel] paid a US government employee to obtain US classified military intelligence documents." The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Shawn L. Twing, April 1996) noted that this was "a reference to the 1985 arrest of Jonathan Pollard, a civilian US naval intelligence analyst who provided Israel's LAKAM [Office of Special Tasks] espionage agency an estimated 800,000 pages of classified US intelligence information."

The GAO report also noted that "Several citizens of [Israel] were caught in the United States stealing sensitive technology used in manufacturing artillery gun tubes."

1996 An Office of Naval Intelligence document, "Worldwide Challenges to Naval Strike Warfare" reported that "US technology has been acquired [by China] through Israel in the form of the Lavi fighter and possibly SAM [surface-to-air] missile technology." Jane's Defense Weekly (2/28/96) noted that "until now, the intelligence community has not openly confirmed the transfer of US technology [via Israel] to China." The report noted that this "represents a dramatic step forward for Chinese military aviation." (Flight International, 3/13/96)

1997 An Army mechanical engineer, David A. Tenenbaum, "inadvertently" gives classified military information on missile systems and armored vehicles to Israeli officials (New York Times, 2/20/97).

1997 The Washington Post reports US intelligence has intercepted a conversation in which two Israeli officials had discussed the possibility of getting a confidential letter that then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher had written to Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat. One of the Israelis, identified only as “Dov”, had commented that they may get the letter from "Mega”, the code name for Israel’s top agent inside the United States.

1997 US ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, complains privately to the Israeli government about heavy-handed surveillance by Israeli intelligence agents.

1997 Israeli agents place a tap on Monica Lewinsky’s phone at the Watergate and record phone sex sessions between her and President Bill Clinton. The Ken Starr report confirms that Clinton warned Lewinsky their conversations were being taped and ended the affair. At the same time, the FBI’s hunt for “Mega” is called off.

2001 It is discovered that US drug agents’ communications have been penetrated. Suspicion falls on two companies, AMDOCS and Comverse Infosys, both owned by Israelis. AMDOCS generates billing data for most US phone companies and is able to provide detailed logs of who is talking to whom. Comverse Infosys builds the tapping equipment used by law enforcement to eavesdrop on all American telephone calls, but suspicion forms that Comverse, which gets half of its research and development budget from the Israeli government, has built a back door into the system that is being exploited by Israeli intelligence and that the information gleaned on US drug interdiction efforts is finding its way to drug smugglers. The investigation by the FBI leads to the exposure of the largest foreign spy ring ever uncovered inside the United States, operated by Israel. Half of the suspected spies have been arrested when 9-11 happens. On 9-11, 5 Israelis are arrested for dancing and cheering while the World Trade Towers collapse. Supposedly employed by Urban Moving Systems, the Israelis are caught with multiple passports and a lot of cash. Two of them are later revealed to be Mossad. As witness reports track the activity of the Israelis, it emerges that they were seen at Liberty Park at the time of the first impact, suggesting a foreknowledge of what was to come. The Israelis are interrogated, and then eventually sent back to Israel. The owner of the moving company used as a cover by the Mossad agents abandons his business and flees to Israel. The United States Government then classifies all of the evidence related to the Israeli agents and their connections to 9-11. All of this is reported to the public via a four part story on Fox News by Carl Cameron. Pressure from Jewish groups, primarily AIPAC, forces Fox News to remove the story from their website. Two hours prior to the 9-11 attacks, Odigo, an Israeli company with offices just a few blocks from the World Trade Towers, receives an advance warning via the internet. The manager of the New York Office provides the FBI with the IP address of the sender of the message, but the FBI does not follow up.

2001 The FBI is investigating 5 Israeli moving companies as possible fronts for Israeli intelligence.

2001 JDL’s Irv Rubin arrested for planning to bomb a US Congressman. He dies before he can be brought to trial.

2002 The DEA issues a report that Israeli spies, posing as art students, have been trying to penetrate US Government offices.

2002 police near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in southern Washington State stop a suspicious truck and detain two Israelis, one of whom is illegally in the United States. The two men were driving at high speed in a Ryder rental truck, which they claimed had been used to "deliver furniture." The next day, police discovered traces of TNT and RDX military-grade plastic explosives inside the passenger cabin and on the steering wheel of the vehicle. The FBI then announces that the tests that showed explosives were “false positived” by cigarette smoke, a claim test experts say is ridiculous. Based on an alibi provided by a woman, the case is closed and the Israelis are handed over to INS to be sent back to Israel. One week later, the woman who provided the alibi vanishes.

2003 The Police Chief of Cloudcroft stops a truck speeding through a school zone. The drivers turn out to be Israelis with expired passports. Claiming to be movers, the truck contains junk furniture and several boxes. The Israelis are handed over to immigration. The contents of the boxers are not revealed to the public.

2003 Israel deploys assassination squads into other countries, including the United States. The US Government does not protest.

2004 Police near the Nuclear Fuel Services plant in Tennessee stop a truck after a three mile chase, during which the driver throws a bottle containing a strange liquid from the cab. The drivers turn out to be Israelis using fake Ids. The FBI refuses to investigate and the Israelis are released.

2004 Two Israelis try to enter Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, home to eight Trident submarines. The truck tests positive for explosives.

This brings us to the present scandal. Two years into an investigation of AIPAC’s possible role as a spy front for Israel, Larry Franklin, a mid-level Pentagon Analyst is observed by the FBI giving classified information to two officials of AIPAC suspected of being Israeli spies. AIPAC hires lawyer Nathan Lewin to handle their legal defense, the same lawyer who defended suspected Israeli spy Stephen Bryen in 1978.

Larry Franklin worked in the Pentagon Office of Special Plans, run by Richard Perle, at the time Perle (who was caught giving classified information to Israel back in 1970) was insisting that Iraq was crawling with weapons of mass destruction requiring the United States to invade and conquer Iraq. There were no WMDs, of course, and Perle has dumped the blame for the “bad intelligence” on George Tenet. But what is known is that the Pentagon Office of Special Plans was coordinating with a similar group in Israel, in Ariel Sharon’s office.

With two suspected Israeli spies (at least) inside the office from which the lies that launched the war in Iraq originated, it appears that the people of the United States are the victims of a deadly hoax, a hoax that started a war.

The leaking of the investigation of AIPAC to the media on August 28th, 2004 gave advance warning to other spies working with Franklin. The damage to the FBI’s investigation was completed when United States Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered the FBI to stop all arrests in the case. Like the Stephen Bryen case and the hunt for “Mega”, this latest spy scandal seems destined by officials who have their own secret allegiances to protect, barring a massive public outcry.

The organization at the heart of the latest spy investigation, AIPAC, wields tremendous influence over the US Congress. Through its members and affiliated PACs, AIPAC directs a huge flow of campaign cash in favor of, and occasionally against, Senators and Representatives solely on the basis of their willingness to support Israel. As an example, in 2002, U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham received so much help from pro-Israeli pacs that 76% of his campaign budget came from OUTSIDE the state of Alabama, mostly from New York.

Let me repeat that. A Congressman AIPAC wanted elected received more money from pro-Israel groups outside his state than from his own constituents inside his state. Who is that Congressman going to be thinking of when he votes in Congress?

So here is the mother of all scandals.

For two years, the FBI has suspected AIPAC of spying for a foreign country, and for those two years (and for decades before) that group suspected of spying for Israel has been reshaping the US Congress for the benefit of a foreign government.

And THAT is the mother of all scandals.

AIPAC Spy Case Update

Knight Ridder's Warren Strobel, who reported a week ago that the FBI investigation of Lawrence Franklin was part of a much larger probe of the pro-Likud Neocon clique in Washington (he didn't put it exactly like that) is increasingly being vindicated as the papers of record pick up the story. The Washington Post reported that the leak of intelligence information to Ahmad Chalabi is part of the investigation. Chalabi somehow found out that the US had cracked Iranian communications codes, and passed the information on to Iran, profoundly damaging the ability of the US to monitor Iran's (largely peaced) nuclear program. The Washington Post also reveals that the investigation extends to David Wurmser, who wants to overthrow the governments of Syria and Iran, and now works for Dick "Kindly Grandpa" Cheney. The Post also reveals that Michigan Congressman John Conyers is very concerned that the investigation has been taken over by a Republican political appointee and may get buried as a result.

It turns out that Condi Rice and Stephen Hadley were informed of the investigation already in 2001, which raises real questions about what action AIPAC officials took to spark it in the first place (most of the details so far leaked concern issues that arose in 2002 and 2003). Stephen Hadley is very tight with the Neocons, and if he knew about the investigation, you wonder whether he could have kept it to himself. On the other hand, maybe the FBI deliberately told some people, to see if they then showed up in the electronic surveillance.

Jason Vest and Laura Rozen reveal that Vermont politician Stephen Green, who has written two books critical of the US-Israeli relationship that covered past spying cases involving AIPAC that were somehow dropped, was interviewed by the FBI, which was clearly looking into whether those investigations should have been dropped.

So far the press has not much looked into the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK or MKO) angle, which I think might be quite important to the whole case.

The politics of the investigation of AIPAC within the FBI would be fascinating to know more about. There have been suspicions that post-9/11, the FBI has been worried about being penetrated by the Israeli intelligence and military, because it now needs the expertise of Arabists, and one recruiting pool for Arabists is Sephardic Jews from, or who are close to, Israel.

As it is, pro-Israeli figures like the Phalangist-related Walid Phares have played a sinister behind-the-scenes role in trying to railroad Arab-Americans like the four defendants in the Detroit case, which has now had to be dropped because of overwhelming evidence of their innocence and of prosecutorial malfeasance. The FBI should investigate how Pharis, an undistinguished academic with links to far rightwing Lebanese groups and the Likud clique, became the "terrorism analyst" at MSNBC.

Who's Jews in the news... Ever wonder why we don't hear much about Palestine here in the states? (except that Palestinians just love to blow up their own children, of course 

SUMNER REDSTONE, CEO of Viacom, "world's biggest media giant" (Economist, 11/23/02) owns Viacom cable, CBS, MTV, Showtime, Nickelodeon, Country Music Television, The Nashville Network, Black Entertainment TV, and Blockbuster video rentals.  Viacom produces and distributes TV programs for the three largest networks, owns 39 television stations outright with another 200 affiliates in its wholly-owned CBS Television Network, owns 185 radio stations in its Infinity radio group, and has over 1,500 affiliated stations through its CBS Radio Network.  Melvin A. Karmazin, another Jew, was number two at Viacom until June 2004, holding the positions of president and chief operating officer. Karmazin remains a large Viacom shareholder. Viacom's publishing division includes Simon & Schuster, Scribner, The Free Press, Fireside, and Archway Paperbacks.

MEL KARMAZIN, president of CBS  LESLIE MOONVES, president of CBS television, great-nephew of David Ben-Gurion, and co-chair with Norman Ornstein of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, appointed by Clinton.

DAVID POLTRACK, Executive Vice-President, Research and Planning, CBS  DON HEWITT, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes, CBS  JEFF FAGER, Exec. Director, 60 Minutes II. CBS  NORMAN ORNSTEIN, American Enterprise Inst., regular columnist for USA Today, news analyst for CBS, and co-chair with Leslie Moonves of the Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligation of Digital TV Producers, appointed by Clinton.

MIKE WALLACE, Host of CBS, 60 Minutes  IVAN SEIDENBERG, CEO of Verizon Communications  BRIAN GRADEN, president of MTV entertainment

The second-largest media conglomerate today, with 2003 revenues of $27.1 billion, is the Walt Disney Company. Its leading personality and CEO, Michael Eisner, is a Jew. The Disney empire, headed by a man described by one media analyst as a "control freak," includes several television production companies (Walt Disney Television, Touchstone Television, Buena Vista Television) and cable networks with more than 100 million subscribers altogether. In August 1995, Eisner acquired Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., which owns the ABC television network, which in turn owns ten TV stations outright in such big markets as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Houston. The corporation also controls A&E, Lifetime Television, SOAPnet, ESPN and the History Channel.

MICHAEL EISNER, major owner of Walt Disney, Capitol Cities, ABC.  LLYOD BRAUN, chair of ABC Entertainment  DAVID WESTIN, president of ABC News  TED KOPPEL, host of ABC's Nightline  BARBARA WALTERS, Host, ABC's 20-20  MICHAEL SAVAGE, Talk Show Host, KFSO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco) Syndicated in 100 markets  RON OWENS, Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)  JOHN ROTHMAN, Talk Show Host, KGO (ABC-Capitol Cities, San Francisco)  Sports network ESPN, an ABC cable subsidiary, is headed by President and CEO George W. Bodenheimer, who is a Jew. The corporation also controls the Disney Channel, Toon Disney, A&E, Lifetime Television, SOAPnet, ESPN and the History Channel, with between 86 and 88 million subscribers each.

MICHAEL MEDVED, Talk Show Host, on 124 AM stations  DENNIS PRAGER, Talk Show Host, nationally syndicated from LA. Has Israeli flag on his home page.  NBC Universal. Another Jewish media mogul is Edgar Bronfman, Jr. He headed Seagram Company, Ltd., the liquor giant, until its recent merger with Vivendi. His father, Edgar Bronfman, Sr., is president of the World Jewish Congress.  Seagram owned Universal Studios and later purchased Interscope Records, the foremost promoter of "gangsta rap," from Warner. Universal and Interscope now belong to Vivendi Universal, which merged with NBC in May 2004, with the parent company now called NBC Universal.

ANDREW LACK, president of NBC  NEIL SHAPIRO, president of NBC News  JEFF GASPIN, Executive Vice-President, Programming, NBC  The largest media conglomerate today is Time Warner. Jewish writer Michael Wolff said in New York magazine in 2001 "since Time Inc.'s merger with Warner ten years ago, one of the interesting transitions is that it has become a Jewish company." (New York magazine, January 29, 2001)

JORDAN LEVIN, president of Warner Bros. Entertainment  BARRY MEYER, chair, Warner Bros.  AOL is the largest Internet service provider in the world, with 34 million U.S. subscribers. It is now being used as an online platform for the Jewish content from Time Warner. Time Warner also owns Shoutcast and Winamp.  JONATHAN MILLER, chair and CEO of AOL division of AOL-Time-Warner  WARREN LIEBERFORD, Pres., Warner Bros. Home Video Div. of AOL- TimeWarner

LAWRENCE KIRSHBAUM, CEO, AOL-Time Warner Book Group,  MARK GOLIN, VP and Creative Director, AOL,  TERRY SEMEL, CEO, Yahoo, former chair, Warner Bros.  Time Warner's subsidiary HBO (26 million subscribers) is the nation's largest pay-TV cable network. HBO's "competitor" Cinemax is another of Time Warner's many cable ventures. In addition to cable and music, Time Warner is heavily involved in the production of feature films (Warner Brothers Studio, Castle Rock Entertainment, and New Line Cinema). Time Warner's publishing division is managed by its editor-in-chief, Norman Pearlstein, a Jew. He controls 50 magazines including Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and People.

RUPERT MURDOCH, Owner Fox TV, New York Post, London Times, News of the World (Jewish mother)  Fox News Channel has been a key outlet pushing the Jewish neoconservative agenda that lies behind the Iraq War and which animates both the administration of George W. Bush and the "new conservatism" that embraces aggressive Zionism.  PETER CHERNIN, second in-command at Rupert Murdoch's News. Corp., owner of Fox TV

SANDY KRUSHOW, Chair, Fox Entertainment,  GAIL BERMAN, president of Fox Entertainment,  RICHARD LEIBNER, runs the N.S. Bienstock talent agency, which represents 600 news personalities such as Dan Rather, Dianne Sawyer and Bill O'Reilly.  ROBERT SILLERMAN, founder of Clear Channel Communications

BRAD SIEGEL., President, Turner Entertainment  WOLF BLITZER, host of CNN's Late Edition, PAULA ZAHN, CNN Host,  ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN Reporter,  LARRY KING, host of CNN's Larry King Live,  STEPHEN EMERSON, every media outlet's first choice as an expert on domestic terrorism.  STEPHEN SPIELBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks, JEFFREY KATZENBERG, co-owner of Dreamworks,  DAVID GEFFEN, co-owner of Dreamworks,  HARVEY WEINSTEIN, CEO. Miramax Films,  SHERRY LANSING. President of Paramount Communications and Chairman of Paramount Pictures' Motion Picture Group.  HOWARD STRINGER, chief of Sony Corp. of America,  AMY PASCAL, chair of Columbia Pictures,  BARRY DILLER, chair of USA Interactive, former owner of Universal Entertainment

The nation's three most prestigious and influential newspapers: the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, dominating America's financial and political capitals, are the newspapers that set the trends and the guidelines for nearly all the others. They are the ones that decide what is news and what isn't at the national and international levels. They originate the news; the others merely copy it. All three newspapers are in Jewish hands.

MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN, owner of NY Daily News, US News & World Report and chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, one of the largest pro-Israel lobbying groups.  ARTHUR O. SULZBERGER, JR., publisher of the NY Times, the Boston Globe and other publications.  WILLIAM SAFIRE, syndicated columnist for the NYT  JEFF JACOBY, syndicated columnist for the Boston Globe

SAMUEL NEWHOUSE JR, and DONALD NEWHOUSE own Newhouse Publications, includes 26 newspapers in 22 cities; the Conde Nast magazine group, includes The New Yorker; Parade, the Sunday newspaper supplement; American City Business Journals, business newspapers published in more than 30 major cities in America; and interests in cable television programming and cable systems serving 1 million homes.

DONALD NEWHOUSE, chairman of the board of directors, Associated Press.  KENNETH POLLACK, former CIA analyst, director of Saban Center for Middle East Policy, writes op-eds in NY Times, New Yorker,  DAVID REZNIK, Editor, The New Yorker,  DONALD GRAHAM, Chair and CEO of Newsweek and Washington Post, son of CATHERINE GRAHAM MEYER, former owner of the Washington Post

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post. Honored by Honest Reporting.com, website monitoring "anti-Israel media."

PETER R KANN, CEO, Wall Street Journal, Barron's,  DANIEL MENAKER, Executive Director, Harper Collins,  MICHAEL LEDEEN, editor of National Review,  DAVID SCHNEIDERMAN, owner of the Village Voice and the New Times network of "alternative weeklies.", MARTY PERETZ, owner and publisher of the New Republic, which openly identifies itself as pro-Israel. Al Gore credits Marty with being his "mentor."

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Israeli Lobby: You can't know the program without the players Xymphora
May 18, 2006   

Michael Massing tries his hand at the new science of lobby-ology, the study of the Israel Lobby. I don’t recommend most of it, too much quibbling and, like every other NYRB article, about three times too long (do you think they pay by the letter?), but the last ten paragraphs in particular do a good job of pointing out the tiny, incestuous world of the Lobby apparachniks. Some examples (I’ve marked various institutions in red, and Lobby-ists in magenta; the 'Gang of Four are the four dominant financiers of AIPAC, identified by Massing as Robert Asher, a retired lighting fixtures dealer in Chicago; Edward Levy, a building supplies executive in Detroit; Mayer 'Bubba’ Mitchell, a construction materials dealer in Mobile, Alabama; and Larry Weinberg, a real estate developer in Los Angeles):

"One key part of the network is the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. AIPAC helped to create this think tank in 1985, with Martin Indyk, AIPAC's research director, becoming its first director. Today, the Washington Institute is fully independent of AIPAC, and there is some diversity among its fellows (Dennis Ross is one). Overall, though, its policies mirror AIPAC's. Its executive director, Robert Satloff, is a neoconservative with very hawkish views on the Middle East. Its deputy director of research, Patrick Clawson, has been a leading proponent of regime change in Iran and of a US confrontation with Tehran over its nuclear program. (AIPAC features him as an expert on its Web site.) Raymond Tanter, an adjunct scholar at the institute, has been championing the MEK, or People's Mujaheddin, a shadowy group of Iranian guerrillas who want to overthrow the government in Tehran (and whom the State Department regards as terrorists). Members of the Washington Institute's board of advisers include Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, James Woolsey, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Mort Zuckerman, and Max Kampelman; its single most important source of funding is Larry Weinberg, one of AIPAC's Gang of Four, and his wife Barbi."

and: "Richard Perle, in addition to sitting on the boards of both the Washington Institute and JINSA, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. So are Joshua Muravchik, a neocon who's also an adjunct scholar at the Washington Institute; Michael Rubin, an up-and-coming neocon who worked in the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans before becoming a political adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq; and Michael Ledeen, who helped to set up JINSA and who has spent the last several years seeking official US backing for regime change in Iran. Together with Morris Amitay, a former executive director of AIPAC, Ledeen is an important force at the Coalition for Democracy in Iran, another advocate for overthrowing the Iranian government. Muravchik, Tanter, and Woolsey are all listed as supporters on that coalition's Web site.

Michael Rubin, meanwhile, is also the editor of The Middle East Quarterly, which is published by the Middle East Forum, a think tank dedicated to fighting terrorism, countering Islamic extremism, and promoting pro-Israel views on college campuses. MEF was founded by Daniel Pipes, an energetic neoconservative whose views seem extreme even within that world. In 2002, Pipes created a Web site called Campus Watch, which 'reviews and critiques’ Middle East studies in North America 'with an aim to improving them.’ (Initially, Campus Watch also encouraged students to take notes on lectures by professors critical of Israel, with the goal of 'exposing’ them on the MEF Web site, but this feature was dropped after it was widely condemned as a form of McCarthyism.) MEF's work on campuses parallels that of AIPAC's own college advocacy program.

Pipes is also an adjunct scholar at the Washington Institute as well as a columnist for The Jerusalem Post, whose editorial page editor, Saul Singer, is a neoconservative and is married to Wendy Singer Senor, who runs AIPAC's Jerusalem office. She is the sister of Dan Senor, who was Paul Bremer's chief spokesman at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.

Pipes is also a regular contributor to The New York Sun, which is co-owned by Bruce Kovner, a hedge fund manager who ranked ninety-third on Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans and who is the chairman of the American Enterprise Institute's board of trustees, and by the money manager Roger Hertog, who is a trustee of both AEI and the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and who is a co-owner (along with former hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt) of The New Republic. That magazine's editor in chief, Martin Peretz, another co-owner, also sits on the Washington Institute's board of advisers."

It will be worthwhile to keep an eye out for the four money men listed in the last paragraph, as well as the AIPAC 'Gang of Four’. We also mustn’t forget big names like the Wurmsers (more on David Wurmser to come). Massing goes on to point out that AIPAC e-mails its supporters an 'Activities Update’:

" The editor of 'Activities Update’ is Michael Lewis, the son of Bernard Lewis, the Princeton scholar and interpreter of the Arab world who gave advice to the Bush administration in the months preceding the war in Iraq."

Anderson, AIPAC, FBI
Notes: The Review has learned that the FBI is seeking to review all of the papers of the late investigative reporter Jack Anderson for the past 25 years as part of AIPAC case. This proposed extraordinary intrusion on press freedom and independence is expected to be rejected by the Anderson family.

The FBI claims to have information that AIPAC defendants Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman met with Anderson and/or one of his reporters and had shared classified information and that, further, Anderson or one of this reporters met with a related individual who could be considered a foreign intelligence agent. These purported contacts are said to go back to sometime in the early 1980s. This despite the fact that the AIPAC case involves a period beginning in 1999 when Anderson was in failing health.

The FBI request covered reporter's notes and source materials from 1980 to the present. The request was made despite the admission by the FBI agents that they had not reviewed Anderson's columns during the period to find out whether he had ever written on the subject.  The FBI further indicated that it would, after reviewing the files, remove all classified material either permanently or return it in a censored form.

CBS, Stahl, AIPAC Investigation Leak, August 2004.
 CBS, Stahl, AIPAC Investigation Leak, August 2004. reports BACK   & Timeline Reference
and Evening News report Aug 27, 2004,  and CBS News
(CBS/AP) A senior Israeli diplomat in Washington has met with a Pentagon analyst being investigated by the FBI on suspicion he passed classified information to Israel, Israeli officials confirmed Monday.  They reiterated, however, that Israel does not have a spy at the Pentagon. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said meetings between Israeli embassy employees and U.S. government officials are commonplace, and that the two governments routinely share secrets.  "Israel and the United States have intimate ties ... and the information being exchanged is much more classified than any conversation that may have taken place," Shalom told a news conference.  U.S. officials say the FBI investigation focuses on Lawrence A. Franklin, an analyst of Iranian affairs who works in a Pentagon office headed by Douglas J. Feith, the undersecretary for policy. Feith has been accused by Democrats of seeking to manipulate intelligence to help make the case for going to war in Iraq. Congressional investigations have found no evidence of that.

The Israeli diplomat was identified as Naor Gilon, head of the political department at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, and a specialist on Iran's nuclear weapons program. Shalom did not mention Gilon by name, but when asked about contacts between Gilon and Franklin, he did not deny they had taken place.  The Israeli daily Maariv on Monday quoted Gilon as saying that he did nothing wrong. "My hands are clean. I have nothing to hide. I acted according to the regulations," Gilon said.  The diplomat told Maariv he was concerned that as a result of the reports, he won't be able to continue working in Washington. "Now, people will be scared to talk to me," the newspaper quoted him as saying.  Newsweek magazine reported in this week's edition that more than a year ago, the FBI was monitoring a meeting between an Israeli Embassy official and a representative of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the main Israeli lobbying group in Washington. At one point, Franklin joined the two, according to Newsweek.

Newsweek did not identify the Israel diplomat, but Israeli media said it apparently was Gilon. Israeli officials said Gilon has met repeatedly with Franklin.  Newsweek, citing U.S. intelligence officials, said that Franklin on one occasion allegedly tried to hand over a classified U.S. policy document on Iran, but that the Israeli diplomat refused to take it.  Maariv quoted Israeli sources as saying that Gilon did not take documents from Franklin, but had frequent meetings with him.  Israel's Foreign Ministry declined comment. The Israeli ambassador to the United States, Danny Ayalon, told Maariv that Gilon went by the book, and that "nothing was done under the table."  The New York Times reported in its Monday edition that government officials say Franklin had been cooperating with federal agents for several weeks and was preparing to lead them to contacts inside the Israeli government when work of the investigation, first reported by 60 Minutes Correspondent Leslie Stahl, was leaked late last week. Efforts to reach Franklin by telephone have been unsuccessful.

On Sunday, Israeli Cabinet minister Natan Sharansky said he believed the allegations might stem from an internal conflict between the Pentagon and the CIA.  "I hope it's all a mistake or misunderstanding of some kind, maybe a rivalry between different bodies," Sharansky told Canadian Broadcasting Corp., singling out "the Pentagon and the CIA."  American officials said the FBI has spent more than a year investigating whether a Pentagon analyst funneled classified material to Israel.  The material described White House policy toward Iran. Israel says Iran — and its nuclear ambitions — pose the greatest threat to the Jewish state.  Sharansky said the ban on espionage in the United States dates to the scandal over Jonathan Pollard, an American Jew caught spying for Israel in 1985. "There are absolutely no attempts to involve any member of the Jewish community and any general American citizens to spy for Israel against the United States," he said.  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office issued a denial late Saturday, saying "Israel does not engage in intelligence activities in the U.S."  

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  • Above: from Britain's Channel 4, release of a fictional British movie drama:, Death of a President, a made-for-tv film depicting a Bush assassination, all creating headaches for the National Security Agency in their trolling of the internet and phone conversations.  Channel Four is planning on another Blair fictional war crimes movie also.
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