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Israeli Espionage: When a Honey Trap Goes Bad A Governor Resigns

By John Anast

Al-Jazeerah, August 15, 2004

With the news out that in fact James McGreevey is, by his own admission, a homosexual; the Mossad honey trap has become somewhat unglued. Golan Cipel, the object of the Mr. McGreevy’s affection, worked for the Israeli consulate in New York in the 1990’s and other posts in a capacity to serve the Israeli espionage service and its targeting of American politicians and the American political system.

Notwithstanding all the self-serving political rhetoric spewing from democratic lips attempting to relegate the matter to a personal issue between two men, there are larger and in deed more relevant issues to our Nation's security to discern. It is a glimpse into the world of Israeli espionage targeted against the United States, its politicians, and its people.

Despite recent numerous pronouncements by both public and private figures alike that Mr. McGreevey’s sexual preference came as a shock, to the contrary it was widely known in political and business circles that the ex-governor had a per chant for male sex partners. There were any number of swirling allegations regarding his sexual exploits, not the least of which that the ex-governor broke his leg at a New Jersey beach during a homosexual act gone awry.

With the knowledge of the ex-governors preference for men, Mossad activated Cipel to lure McGreevey into a compromising position for exploitation, extortion and blackmail purposes. It is alleged that in a pre-arranged visit to Israel, organized by New Jersey Jewish organizations, Mr. McGreevey was introduced to the Jewish homosexual, Mr. Cipel at a political function.

In its zeal to penetrate the Governors office and homeland security, Mossad demanded that Cipel, an Israeli citizen who lacked any requisite experience or security clearances, be appointed to run New Jersey’s homeland security office. In that position Mr. Cipel could have not only obtained information on US security procedures, but also been in a position to access sensitive investigative information, methods and sources relative to US efforts to thwart Israeli espionage against the United States. New Jersey is still reeling from the Israeli espionage ring which was housed in Urban Movers that collapsed soon after it was discovered on 11 September, and more recently by the detention of two (2) Israelis, working for a New Jersey moving company, caught with classified submarine fuel near a US base in Tennessee where the fuel is manufactured.

Investigators should not limit their investigation to Cipel and his activities but should also be reviewing every appointment made by the McGreevey administration and especially those dealing with homeland security, to ensure that additional Israeli moles are not in-place conspiring espionage against the State of New Jersey and our Nation. Investigators should also be reviewing if telephone calls from the ex-governors home and office were logged by Amdocs, and if that information was shared with Israeli agents in Israel, as Amdocs is an Israeli company based in the United States which monitors and tracks most calls made within our Nation.

This should be a wake-up call to every local, state and federal agency to demand that all meetings public or private by any official, and or any member of their staff, and any foreign national, or any person holding dual citizenship be made part of the public record as a matter of law. It would also enhance security in the State of New Jersey to make it mandatory that the Division of Motor Vehicles include the place of birth, and any dual citizenship the recipient may hold. It would likewise increase security to tag every foreign visitor to the United States to know and monitor their whereabouts at all times.

Alpha

McGREEVEY SEX SCANDAL WAS ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE OPERATION,
SAYS INTELLIGENCE EXPERT
U.S.Newswire -- From New York, Monday, August 16, 2004
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?ReleaseID=34760
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=102-08162004

Foreign Policy/Intelligence Columnist Andy Martin Says McGreevey Sex
Scandal was Israeli Intelligence Operation

Contact: Andy Martin Worldwide Communications, 866-706-2639
(andy@andymartin.com)

America's most respected foreign policy/intelligence analyst,
Out2.com's
Andy Martin, will publish a column and hold a news conference in New
York today (Aug. 16) to disclose that the New Jersey sex scandal
involving Gov. James McGreevey was really an Israeli intelligence
operation gone sour.

News Conference Details:
Time/date: today (Aug. 16) at 1 p.m. EDT
Location: Southwest Corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, New York
City

"People have been confused by the McGreevey sex scandal," says Martin.
"But McGreevey's dilemma is not a gay sex scandal. It is an Israeli
intelligence operation gone sour. This is not a scandal about 'sex.' It
is a scandal about 'secrets.'

“McGreevey said he had sex. He did. Golan Cipel says he is not gay.
He's
not. They are both right. Mr. Cipel was a junior Mossad case officer,
originally posted to New York under official cover. The Mossad is well
known for using human sex toys. McGreevey was lured into a relationship
that was intended to penetrate New Jersey's homeland defenses.

"Since 9/11 there has been barely suppressed anger at the fact Israeli
intelligence knew about the hijackers and said nothing. Israelis have
found themselves under suspicion and restricted by some intelligence
channels. The state homeland security position was seen as a back door
way of spying on anti-terror preparations in the New York-New Jersey
area, and possibly nationally.

"The media have focused on the wrong blackmail scheme. This was not a
sexual blackmail situation, although threats and demands have been
made.
'Gay sex' is being used to conceal the real nature of the betrayal.
This
was a blackmail scheme intended to place Golan Cipel in a position of
intense interest to Israeli intelligence.

"I am asking the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey to refocus his
investigation into a breach-of-security investigation instead of a sex
scandal.

"Based on my extensive experience with foreign intelligence agencies, I
think you will see Mr. Cipel, who is now exposed by his non-official
cover, on a plane back to Israel very soon.

"Gov. McGreevey was a 'fool for love,' but the root cause of his
weakness was his mistaken belief that Cipel was a lover, when he was in
fact Cipel was a trained intelligence asset trying to exploit
McGreevey's weakness to benefit Israeli security interests," says
Martin.

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Alpha

How to Plant a Spy in a Governor's Bed:

http://www.couplescompany.com/Features/Politics/2004/Cipel1.htm

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More- http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen08142004.html

An Israeli / Rove Connection?
The McGreevey Scandal
By WAYNE MADSEN

Here we go again. Another political bombshell hits the American people and
there is yet another connection to the subterranean labyrinth of possible
Israeli intelligence activities. New Jersey Democratic Governor Jim
McGreevey's announcement on August 12 that he was resigning because of his
involvement in a gay relationship with an Israeli national may be the tip of
an iceberg that represents another high-level Israeli attempt to burrow into
the most sensitive areas of U.S. national security and our political
process. The surprise announcement is also being used by a number of
neo-conservative news outlets to tarnish the Democratic Party and absolve
Israel of any connection to the New Jersey political scandal.

The ties between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Russian-mafia infused
government and shadowy Israeli and Eastern European ex-intelligence agents
are beyond a doubt, according to international law enforcement officials.
But what is not readily apparent is the fact that a number of Israeli
off-the-books intelligence operatives are active inside the United States
and they do not have U.S. national interests in mind. In particular, the
Israeli-Russian mobsters and their allies within the Sharon government have
adopted one of the most successful intelligence ploys used by the former KGB
and East German Stasi--the use of prostitutes or "swallows" to gain intimate
access to high Western politicians, so-called "sexpionage." In the case of
Israel, which welcomed a number of émigré former Eastern bloc intelligence
agents during and after the Cold War, this has entailed the use of both
female and male prostitutes. The fact that White House chief dirty tricks
operator Karl Rove has close connections to the political spin machine run
out of Sharon's Jerusalem office is also a concern when it comes to
Israeli-connected dirty tricks operations being run against Democratic
politicians in the United States.

It should be remembered that New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Torricelli
was forced to drop out of his re-election race in 2002 because of leaks
about his involvement with a contributor indicted on federal charges.
Torricelli's major problems in New Jersey arose after he was chastised for
missing an important Senate vote supporting Israel. The Senate, at the time,
was tenuously in the hands of the Democrats, who had a one-seat majority.
However, Torricelli was replaced on the ticket by Frank Lautenberg, who went
on to win the seat for the Democrats.

Jim McGreevey was a rising star in Democratic politics. As Mayor of
Woodbridge, a New York City commuter suburb, McGreevey decided to opt for
statewide political office. At the same time he appeared on the Israeli
intelligence radar screens. In 2000, with his eye on the New Jersey
statehouse, Mayor McGreevey joined a large delegation of New Jersey Jewish
supporters in a political "mega pilgrimage" to Israel, where he met Golan
Cipel, said to be a tour guide/information officer for the mayor of the Tel
Aviv suburb of Rishon Le-Zion, the first Zionist settlement in Palestine.
However, Cipel had previously been the press secretary for the Israeli
consulate general in New York City. In 1999, Cipel, who is now being
described as a one-time low-level Israeli government employee in New York
and a "poet," gave a speech on behalf of the Israeli government at a meeting
at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Madison Avenue offices on some very high
profile issues, including the implications of the recent death of King
Hussein of Jordan, the upcoming Israeli elections, and the peace process
with the Palestinian Authority.

Cipel was also a former Israeli naval officer, leaving the service with the
rank of lieutenant. How a person goes from an influential position with one
of the most important Israeli diplomatic missions abroad to a mere Jerusalem
area tour guide seems, on the surface, extraordinary. But in the world of
intelligence, such career changes are driven by political necessity, not by
choice. McGreevey's admitted lifelong homosexuality also made him a likely
target for an intelligence approach--and Cipel, who, as a 1998 graduate of
the New York Institute of Technology and the New York Israeli consulate's
press spokesman, was more than familiar with north Jersey's political and
social terrain. And Cipel was no stranger to right-wing Republican politics.
In 1995, Cipel and future Washington Times reporter Joshua Mitnick edited an
Israeli consulate news wire called "Israel Line." The Washington Times,
owned by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, is a money-losing outlet for neo-conservative
political opinion.

After McGreevey returned to New Jersey from Israel, Cipel also moved to
Iselin, New Jersey and was hired by a billionaire Florham Park land
developer and Democratic fundraiser named Charles Kushner, an individual who
became the source for $250,000 for McGreevey's campaign for the governor's
mansion. Kushner sponsored Cipel for a temporary work visa. After McGreevey
was sworn in as governor, he named Kushner to the board of the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey, the original owners of the World Trade
Center. Kushner was recently indicted on federal charges of corruption
involving a land deal and illegal campaign contributions.

Soon after McGreevey announced his candidacy for the governorship, Cipel
became one of his campaign advisers. During 2001, in his role as McGreevey's
Jewish liaison adviser, Cipel received another temporary work visa that was
sponsored by the New Jersey State Democratic Committee.

After McGreevey's election, Cipel was named homeland security director for
New Jersey, a $110,000 per year job. New Jersey sponsored Cipel for yet
another temporary work visa just four months after a number of Israelis were
rounded up and arrested by New Jersey police and Federal agents for
photographing and celebrating the collapse of the Twin Towers on September
11. Cipel, who had no verifiable security experience, was touted by
McGreevey's administration as having gained his anti-terrorist credentials
as a member of the Israeli Defense Force. An Israeli military expert told
the Bridgewater, New Jersey Courier News that Cipel's military record was
"routine, at best." In addition, Kathryn Flicker, an assistant attorney
general for New Jersey, was appointed by McGreevey to head of the state
counter-terrorism office but only after Cipel was strangely named as a
parallel counter-terrorism official.

After both Republican and Democratic New Jersey legislators complained about
Cipel's lack of qualifications and the Federal government refused to grant
him a security clearance because he was not a U.S. citizen, the Israeli
national left his position as homeland security czar and took up his
previous campaign job as McGreevey's Jewish affairs adviser and special
counsel at the same $110,000 salary. Inexplicably, Cipel maintained a staff
of three assistants for a staff job that had no real responsibilities.

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Israeli Connection to 9/11:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2004/07/31/israel-9-11-connection-exposed.php

Alpha · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:33 am Post subject: Sex, Lies, and Terrorism

Sex, Lies, and Terrorism
How did Golan Cipel become New Jersey's 'anti-terrorism' czar?
by Justin Raimondo
Aug. 16, 2004

Â Find this article at:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin
Â
This an excerpt:

Israeli organized crime and the Mossad are among the prime suspects
over
Governor McGreevey

New Jersey state officials, Democrats as well as Republicans, had long
been
mystified by the apparent hold Cipel had over Governor McGreevey, and
early
news accounts are filled with hints of a "special" relationship: heck,
the guys
over at Free Republic outed McGreevey two years ago. But the homosexual
angle
is hardly the whole story. The national security aspect of this episode
ought
to frighten the heck out of anyone who believes that government efforts
to
fight terrorism on the home front are in any way reassuring. How naÃ¯ve
can you get?

But it also ought to raise a few questions beyond when is the Gay
Governor
going to start dating again.

New Jersey is key terrain in the real war on terrorism: Flight 93 from
Newark
to San Francisco was commandeered by the terrorists on 9/11 and crashed
into
a field in Pennsylvania after passengers rushed the hijackers. The
anthrax
letters were mailed from New Jersey. Newark has recently been put on
orange alert
as the U.S. braces for a pre-election terrorist strike.

So letâ€™s forget the gory details of McGreevey's sex life, and focus
on the
question of why did Cipel lobby so hard to get the job of New Jersey's
shadow
terrorism czar, nixing ex-FBI Louis Freeh and hiding behind Kathryn
Flickerâ€™s
skirts? It seems like only yesterday that McGreevey was still defending
Cipel,
and New Jersey media reported:

"When the FBI issued a terrorist alert last week, it was apparently
Cipel who
first contacted McGreevey, not New Jersey's newly appointed terror
czar,
Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Flicker. Even before McGreevey's
election in
November, administration sources said, Cipel toured the state â€“
visiting
refineries, nuclear plants, bridges, and seaports â€“ to make an
inventory of security
needs. McGreevey said Cipel has already offered â€˜invaluable
insightsâ€™ into a
variety of security matters, both large and small. â€˜He's someone who
thinks
with a different set of eyes, and that is very hard to find,â€™
McGreevey said."

So this guy was out there "inspecting" nuclear plants â€“ if that
doesnâ€™t set
off alarm bells, then we might as well pack it in, because we're all
doomed.

As an Israeli citizen, Cipel couldnâ€™t have access to classified
materials â€“
except through the "back door," so to speak, via McGreevey. Did
McGreevey balk
at the arrangement, and transfer Cipel to another job? That, at any
rate, is
when their "relationship," whatever it was, apparently began to go
sour.

If Cipel maintains that he consistently refused McGreevey's advances,
then
how can he explain the series of jobs the governor found for him after
he left
public service? If the sexual relationship was nonexistent, then what
power did
Cipel have over the governor? In any case, he exercised that power in
order
to penetrate the U.S. counter-terrorism apparatus â€“ on whose behalf
is not
altogether clear, but Israeli organized crime and the Mossad are among
the prime
suspects. After all, it would hardly be the first time the latter used
sex as a
lure: isn't that how they got Mordechai Vanunu?
=========
Sex, Lies, and Terrorism
How did Golan Cipel become New Jersey's 'anti-terrorism' czar?
by Justin Raimondo
Aug. 16, 2004

The self-"outing" of New Jersey Governor James McGreevey and his
involvement
with Golan Cipel, described as a 30-something Israeli "poet," soon
degenerated
into one of those the-personal-is-the-political soap operas Americans
seem to
revel in. After hearing McGreevey's now famous "I am a gay American"
speech,
some gushed that this put him right up there with rising Democratic
star Obama
Barack. Gay rights groups were quick to hail McGreevey for spilling his
guts
to the nation. No sooner had the Gay Guv finished filling us in on the
details
of his trauma-laden childhood and the burden of a life lived in the
"closet,"
when every cable news station booker was dialing Arianna Huffington's
number.
Her image flooded the airwaves, and, as she intoned knowledgeably and
interminably about the travails of a wife who has been left for a man,
it seemed
somehow appropriate that Arianna is one of those women who might be
plausibly
mistaken for a drag queen. The amalgamation of "news" into
entertainment never
seemed more vivid. But as I half-listened to the former Gingrich
groupie-turned-limousine-lefty bibble on in heavily-accented
psycho-babble, she suddenly
blurted out the truth:

"As the day progressed, it became clear that this was a story unfolding
on so
many levels only a Shakespearean drama or a Verdi opera could do
justice to
it. There was the personal, the political, possibly the legal, and who
knows
what else to be revealed by the time we get to Act Five."

Act Two unfolded soon thereafter. Cipel denied being gay, and denied
having
consensual sex with McGreevey: he issued a brief statement through his
lawyers
that used the word "victim" at least three times. The McGreevey camp
struck
back, claiming that Cipel had demanded $50 million as the price of his
silence,
later lowering the price to $5 million, and then a mere $2 mil, with
the
negotiations continuing right up until minutes before McGreevey went
before the
cameras.

Amid the voyeurism and vulgarity of this media circus, and hints of
more
revelations to come, I had to laugh out loud at Arianna's remark that
the hiring
of Cipel "only makes sense as a taxpayer-funded cry for help."

McGreevey hiring his boytoy as the state's anti-terrorist chieftain
less than
a year after 9/11 no doubt makes sense to Arianna, and to the millions
of
romantic fiction fans for whom nothing is impossible when it comes to
love. But
for the rest of us, the question is obvious: if McGreevey had to give
his
boytoy a job, why appoint him to the crucially important post of
anti-terror czar?
Why not give him a cushy office job in some obscure state agency?
Certainly
that would have been less obvious, and, as it was, McGreevey did his
best to
render the appointment invisible. As the New York Timesreports:

"On Jan. 24, 2002, with great fanfare, Mr. McGreevey announced the
creation
of an office of counterterrorism and appointed Kathryn Flicker, a
respected
assistant attorney general, to the post.

"But in late February, reporters discovered that there were two
Homeland
Security officials. Mr. Cipel, who listed Mr. McGreevey's largest
contributor, the
developer Charles Kushner, as the sponsor on his visa application, and
was
paid $30,000 a year for a public relations job with Mr. Kushner's
company in
2000, had actually been hired, with no fanfare, on Jan. 15, a full week
before
Ms. Flicker."

To characterize McGreevey's actions as "a taxpayer-funded cry for help"
is
one way of looking at it, but a simpler explanation is that he made the
appointment because Cipel requested it. But why would the 35-year-old
Israeli citizen,
whom McGreevey had met on a trip to Israel in 2000, want it in the
first
place?

Certainly Cipel made an effort to block anybody else from getting the
job, as
the local New Jersey media reported:

"Sources close to the task force said Cipel also played a key role in
persuading McGreevey not to tap former FBI chief Louis J. Freeh to head
the state's
Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force, which was created in
October.
Officials who served in the administration of former acting Gov. Donald
T.
DiFrancesco said Freeh had agreed to take the unpaid post if McGreevey
approved.
McGreevey declined to comment on Freeh. Several Democrats said Cipel
had argued
strongly against the choice, pointing out that the former FBI director
would be a
part-time volunteer when the governor wanted a full-time terror czar."

Whether Cipel asked for the job, or not, McGreevey very much wanted him
to
have it, as Sandy McClure of the Gannett news agency first reported in
December
of 2002:

"Using the terrorism attacks of Sept. 11 to justify the hiring, the
governor's chief lawyer wrote a letter to the U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization
Service on McGreevey's inauguration day, telling the federal agency
that New Jersey
wanted Cipel to coordinate increased security with all branches of
government
and that Cipel had the necessary 'substantial experience' in public
security."

If McGreevey was trying to hide his sexual identity, this was clearly
not the
way to do it. The appointment led to an outcry among Republican
legislators,
and a series of revelations, including this excerpt from a letter to
the INS
from the governor's chief counsel, Paul Levinsohn, describing the
nature of
Cipel's work on behalf of the Israeli government:

"In particular, his experience as chief information officer, consulate
general of Israel, involved responsibility for developing and
maintaining the
country's terrorism portfolio, keeping government authorities abreast
of terrorist
activities and threats, maintaining a database of such activities and
coordinating that information with data obtained from other agencies."

This doesnâ€™t sound like an "information officer" to me: it's a job
description more suited to an intelligence officer.

With all the emphasis on the Gay Governor as a personality, and the sex
angle, Cipel has remained a bit of a mystery. Before he resigned under
the glare of
public scrutiny, in 2002 â€“ while still retaining his 6-figure salary
â€“
McGreevey and his cohorts defended the appointment as entirely
appropriate.
Confronted with questions about why Cipel was named to the crucial post
of homeland
security czar for the state of New Jersey without undergoing a routine
background check, McGreevey replied:

"I didn't feel that kind of check was necessary. I know Golan and have
worked
with him closely. He's a super-bright and super-competent individual
who
brings a great wealth of knowledge on security.'"

Alright, then, letâ€™s do our own background check on Mr. Cipel, made
possible
by the creators of Google.com. Who the heck is Golan Cipel, anyway?

Most news reports refer to him as "a former sailor and a poet,"
buttressing
the boy-toy-with-expensive-tastes character who plays such a key
supporting
role in the story of the governor's Coming Out party. Oh, those
sailors! But the
truth is more prosaic, and more political. Cipel, far from being a
boytoy, is
a rather plain young man who looks more like an insurance salesman than
a
gigolo â€“ and sounds more like a propagandist for Ariel Sharon than
one of the boys
on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. While the record of his public
utterances
is slim, Cipel's remarks to a Jewish congregation in New Jersey were
reported,
under somewhat trying circumstances, by the New Jersey Jewish News:

"Making a rare public appearance before a Jewish audience since leaving
public life amid questions over the propriety of his hiring by New
Jersey Gov.
James E. McGreevey, former state homeland security adviser Golan Cipel
spoke about
Israelâ€™s security situation March 21 at Congregation Anshe Chesed in
Linden.

"However, there was some confusion about how public his appearance was
to be.
Although the synagogue had announced Cipel's speech with a press
release and
invited NJ Jewish News, Cipel interrupted his lecture to ask a reporter
from
the paper to leave.

"Until that point, Cipel had been describing the plight of Israelis
living
under terror and the world's biased response to Israel."

Cipel went on to complain that the world

"â€™Treats us with a double standard.â€™ He compared the way world
governments
and the press reacted to the recent terrorist attack in Spain to
reactions to
attacks in Israel. 'There was no question [in Spain] it was a terrorist
attack.
When it comes to Israel, there's always a question,' according to the
media.
Cipel launched into discussions of the Israeli security fence and
terrorism
after casual references to his recent and controversial public career.
He
referred to inaccuracies in the press and articles he had read about
himself that
werenâ€™t true before asking NJJN to stop reporting on the speech and
declaring
that his comments were not 'on the record.'"

In his capacity as an "information officer" at the Israeli consulate,
from at
least February 1996 until April of â€™99, Cipel made appearances at the
events
of such groups as American Veterans of Israel's 1948 war, and also
churned out
an enormous volume of propaganda. He thereupon returned to Israel,
where he
served as a parliamentary aide to a Labor member of the Knesset, and
was a
public relations officer for the city of Rishon Letzion, where he met
McGreevey at
a reception.

Cipel was brought to the U.S. under the auspices of Charles Kushner,
McGreevey's chief fundraiser, whose gigantic real estate holdings made
him the rising
star among Democratic party moneybags. Cipel's job for the state
Democratic
party, doing Jewish outreach for the McGreevey campaign, pulled in a
paltry
amount of money, but Cipel's salary was generously supplemented by work
for
Kushner as a "consultant."

Kushner is quite a character. Under investigation for tax evasion and
election code violations, he recently made headlines when he sent his
sister a tape
of her husband having sex with a prostitute. The sister had been
cooperating
with prosecutors looking into the real estate mogul, and Kushner, a
noted
philanthropist, exacted retribution. Rumor has it that Kushner sought a
pardon,
apparently unsuccessfully, from the governor he thought he owned. When
the pardon
wasnâ€™t forthcoming, the threat of a suit by Cipel and his lawyers
began to
loom large: there has been speculation in the media that Kushner may be
behind
the governorâ€™s recent troubles, and this is fueled by the question of
whoâ€™s
paying the apparently penniless Cipelâ€™s lawyers, as well as the
latest reporting:

"Yesterday a McGreevey administration source said Cipel also had sought
the
governor's influence in getting a New Jersey license for a New
York-based
Jewish college.

"Adding another twist to the case, administration sources said that in
recent
days, Lowy had asked for more than money to forgo a lawsuit. Cipel's
lawyer
also asked for help in winning a license for Touro College to build the
first
private medical school in New Jersey, said a top-ranking administration
source
who spoke on condition of anonymity. Among the board members of Touro
College,
a Jewish institution based in New York, is Charles Kushner â€¦"

While the Democrats were quick to return Kushner's recent
contributions, the
multi-billion dollar real estate empire he presides over is bound to
survive
his legal problems â€“ as will his political influence in the
Democratic
stronghold of New Jersey. The only question now is whether he has video
of Cipel being
"sexually harassed" by McGreevey.

New Jersey state officials, Democrats as well as Republicans, had long
been
mystified by the apparent hold Cipel had over Governor McGreevey, and
early
news accounts are filled with hints of a "special" relationship: heck,
the guys
over at Free Republic outed McGreevey two years ago. But the homosexual
angle
is hardly the whole story. The national security aspect of this episode
ought
to frighten the heck out of anyone who believes that government efforts
to
fight terrorism on the home front are in any way reassuring. How naÃ¯ve
can you get?

But it also ought to raise a few questions beyond when is the Gay
Governor is
going to start dating again.

New Jersey is key terrain in the real war on terrorism: Flight 93 from
Newark
to San Francisco was commandeered by the terrorists on 9/11 and crashed
into
a field in Pennsylvania after passengers rushed the hijackers. The
anthrax
letters were mailed from New Jersey. Newark has recently been put on
orange alert
as the U.S. braces for a pre-election terrorist strike.

So letâ€™s forget the gory details of McGreevey's sex life, and focus
on the
question of why did Cipel lobby so hard to get the job of New Jersey's
shadow
terrorism czar, nixing Louis Freeh and hiding behind Kathryn
Flickerâ€™s skirts?
It seems like only yesterday that McGreevey was still defending Cipel,
and New
Jersey media reported:

"When the FBI issued a terrorist alert last week, it was apparently
Cipel who
first contacted McGreevey, not New Jersey's newly appointed terror
czar,
Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Flicker. Even before McGreevey's
election in
November, administration sources said, Cipel toured the state â€“
visiting
refineries, nuclear plants, bridges, and seaports â€“ to make an
inventory of security
needs. McGreevey said Cipel has already offered â€˜invaluable
insightsâ€™ into a
variety of security matters, both large and small. â€˜He's someone who
thinks
with a different set of eyes, and that is very hard to find,â€™
McGreevey said."

So this guy was out there "inspecting" nuclear plants â€“ if that
doesnâ€™t set
off alarm bells, then we might as well pack it in, because we're all
doomed.

As an Israeli citizen, Cipel couldnâ€™t have access to classified
materials â€“
except through the "back door," so to speak, via McGreevey. Did
McGreevey balk
at the arrangement, and transfer Cipel to another job? That, at any
rate, is
when their "relationship," whatever it was, apparently began to go
sour.

If Cipel maintains that he consistently refused McGreevey's advances,
then
how can he explain the series of jobs the governor found for him after
he left
public service? If the sexual relationship was nonexistent, then what
power did
Cipel have over the governor? In any case, he exercised that power in
order
to penetrate the U.S. counter-terrorism apparatus â€“ on whose behalf
is not
altogether clear, but Israeli organized crime and the Mossad are among
the prime
suspects. After all, it would hardly be the first time the latter used
sex as a
lure: isn't that how they got Mordechai Vanunu?

â€“Justin Raimondo

+++++++
A sick man! Don't you think?
Jay Lefkowitz is now Deputy assistant to the President for Domestic
Policy.

"Deep down, I believe that a little anti-Semitism is a good thing for
the
Jews - reminds us who we are." --Jay Lefkowitz (NYT Magazine. Feb.12,
1995. Page
65).

Alpha

Forwarded:

ALL 9-11 AIRPORTS SERVICED BY ONE ISRAELI OWNED COMPANY

It's one of those times when an innocuous comment in an unrelated news report triggers a revelation. In the article at http://afrocubaweb.com/news/israelispying.htm there is the following paragraph:
To make the situation worse, a private security company called ICTS, owned by an Israeli, Ezra Harel, and registered in the Netherlands, was employed at Charles de Gaulle airport to screen passengers boarding US planes. Most of its personnel are ex-Shin Bet officers. The company covers security at Boston's Logan airport, where the American Airlines plane came down after flight attendants and passengers overpowered Reid.

The point of the article was that ICTS knew Reid was dangerous, but allowed him on board a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris. Maybe they did and maybe they didn't. But the idea that an Israeli owned company had inside access to the airport used to launch an abortive terror attack brought to mind the strange message Odigo Systems, another Israeli owned company with offices near the World Trade Towers, received that warned of the impending attacks before the hijacked planes had even left the ground.

So, I went back to another story that had surfaced briefly, reported at www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26626 <http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26626> about how at least one hijacker had smuggled a GUN aboard one of the hijacked planes. Even prior to 9-11, getting a gun on board a passenger plane represented a serious lapse of security. I wondered why this story of a gun was being concealed behind talk of box cutters and screwdrivers.

Then I went back to the first article and its mention that ICTS handled security at Logan International Airport, from which two of the 9-11 hijacked planes had departed. <http://afrocubaweb.com/news/israelispying.htm>

Sure enough, a visit to ICTS' own web site at http://www.icts-int.com/ confirms that ICTS is in fact an Israeli owned company, and that it sells services to every airport from which the hijacked planes operated, including security, sometimes through wholly owned subsidiaries like Huntleigh USA Corporation <http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:m3ZqXvCFSroC:www.union-network.org/uniproperty.nsf/1667988b5e105a37c1256b3c0049ef61/4c6f0ba768119014c1256af500217f48%3FOpenDocument+ICTS+security+Newark&hl=en&start=1> .

It has been suggested that the incredible feat of hijacking four aircraft without a single arrest at the gate would require the resources of a nation-state. This is even more true with the revelation that at least one gun had managed to be aboard a hijacked plane. One company had automatic inside access to all of the airports from which hijacked planes departed on 9-11, and to the airports used by Richard Reid, the shoe bomber. An Israeli company. One that Mossad agents could easily find employment with without the management knowing who they were or what their purpose really was.

But one thing is clear. By virtue of the Odigo warning, someone knew enough about the planned attacks to warn Odigo before the planes had even departed the airport gates, yet they did not call the Israeli security company at the airports which could have stopped the flights from leaving.

Think about that one for a while.

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"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring. <spyring.html>
"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 <http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2002-03-13/fishwrapper.html>
"While I agree with you, if I say anything about US geopolitical interests with Israel, I might as well clean off my desk." -- Unnamed reporter as quoted in American Media Censorship and Israel <http://www.ccmep.org/ccmep/american031902.html>

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What Really Happened <http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/>

Alpha

(1) "911 In Plane Site" video shows government lied about 911
(2) transcript of Fox report on Israeli 911 spies (now removed from Fox
site)

(1) "911 In Plane Site" video shows government lied about 911

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:32:34 -0400 From: John Kaminski
<skylax@comcast.net>

Now we know for sure they lied about 9/11

New video delivers the goods about government’s false 9/11 Pentagon
story

By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net

I challenge anyone to watch the new "911 In Plane Site" video and still
believe the government's story that a jet airliner full of passengers
hit the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. It simply can't be done. I'll
bet anyone any amount of anything that they just can't do it.

Utilizing footage from TV networks — often stuff that was shown only
one
time and never seen again — the Power Hour radio show's Dave Von Kleist
methodically provides proof positive that the government lied about
what
happened in Washington on that fateful day, an event that was the
culmination of the greatest sneak attack in American history.

The damning images of flames raging inside the Pentagon behind an
unbroken wall with many unbroken windows and an unbroken roof line
clearly demonstrates that whatever caused the explosion and fire inside
America's most secure building, coupled with no significant trace of
airplane wreckage at any time during the disaster, was no giant
airliner.

It wasn't until long after the fire began that the roof finally
collapsed, and even then, the hole that was created in no way resembles
the ghastly imprint two other jets left when they struck the World
Trade
Center towers in New York City mere minutes before.

What this means for the American people is that the story President
Bush, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and all those other government
officials told the world that day is a lie, a gigantic and bald-faced
lie.

A hijacked airliner never hit the Pentagon, and this film proves it. As
VonKleist, who both wrote and produced this masterpiece, asks in the
film, "How does a plane 125 feet wide and 155 feet long fit into a hole
which is only 16 feet across?"

Since day one, the only thing that every single, skeptical 9/11
researcher has ever wanted during all the research they have undertaken
during the past three years is one single, irrefutable fact that could
disprove the government's blatant lie. Because proving one lie means
their whole story is false. One provable lie means 9/11 is not what
they
said it was.

This is the film that does it. And this is a development in the 9/11
story that no one in America or the world can afford to ignore.

Indictments and arrests should begin immediately based on this film
alone. Top members of the government lied about what happened. This is
a
statement that can no longer be challenged as false. It is now up to
American law enforcement officials to act in this matter, or the
American people will realize our leaders are allowed the break the law,
and the laws no longer apply to them.

And the Pentagon revelation is only the start of this remarkable film,
a
70-minute documentary that delves into only four major aspects of Sept.
11.

Having viewed this film with two relatives who did believe the
government's story prior to viewing, I interpreted the ashen looks on
their faces as a valid testament to the movie's power. Before seeing
it,
they basically believed what they'd heard on TV about what happened on
9/11. Afterwards, they both told me that they no longer did.

After the Pentagon segment, Von Kleist turns his attention to the
plume,
a giant puff of smoke that rises from the base of the Twin Towers PRIOR
to their collapse. Although Von Kleist doesn't say so (and doesn't
really make any conclusions in his objective presentation of film
fact),
the viewer is left to contemplate whether this was the explosion that
brought down the towers. A great clip of firemen describing how the
buildings were demolished leaves viewers with that distinct impression.

The most controversial aspect of the film, one which led me and other
potential reviewers to express reservations about the film before we'd
actually seen it, was the inclusion of material from Phil Jayhan’s
letsroll911.org website, the most astounding aspect of which is footage
that shows both jetliners appearing to fire missiles at the towers in
the instant before impact.

It simply sounded too preposterous. It sounded as untenable as the
hologram theory. Many of us worried it was deliberate disinformation,
designed to destroy the 9/11 skeptics movement.

You need to see it. Four different people with four different cameras
recorded it. I am no photographic expert. I can’t tell you when a film
has been tampered with or when it hasn’t. I can only tell you what I
saw. It looks real, and the patient pacing of Von Kleist’s explanation
will make it most difficult for you to deny what you are seeing.

But my initial fear that the 9/11 truth movement could be hurt by this
footage was completely erased after I saw the Pentagon segment, because
if people watch that, they will have no alternative but to realize that
their leaders are criminals — liars, traitors and mass murderers — who
have covered up the truth about 9/11 because they were involved in it.

This is not a conspiracy theory. These are facts recorded on film. See
it for yourself. You can’t afford not to. After all, what is at stake
is
the future of freedom, and that’s not an exaggeration.

And all the subsequent carnage that Bush and his criminal friends have
inflicted on the world is predicated on this one colossal lie.

No jetliner hit the Pentagon. This film proves it. This film proves the
government lied — big time — about what happened on 9/11. Think about
the people who are involved in this lie. Everybody on television.
Everybody at the major newspapers. Everybody in the Congress. Thousands
of people.

Think about all the lives that have been needlessly thrown away as a
result of this lie.

Think about America. It’s a lie. This film proves it.

I talked with Phil Jayhan last night. I told him that I was not a film
expert, but that the missile footage looked real to me. And I
congratulated him on the tireless outreach he’s done on this project.
More than any other 9/11 researcher, he has contacted more people and
produced more results than anybody else.

We had argued about this issue in the past. I worried if the missile
footage were proven to false or tampered with, the whole movement could
be hurt.

I no longer believe that the missile footage — should it somehow be
proven false — can hurt the 9/11 skeptics movement, in large part
because the Pentagon footage was so masterfully presented that no one
in
their right mind can deny that no hijacked airliner hit the Pentagon.

I have previously advocated that the time the towers took to fall was
the smoking gun of 9/11, because that indicated the WTC buildings had
been demolished, since they fell at the same speed as debris off to the
side. Jayhan responded that Twin Tower demolition could one day be
explained away as a way to prevent more deaths than actually happened.
I
had to agree the perps could do that, if their demolition scheme were
ever to be revealed to the public.

But, Jayhan stressed, there can be no alternative reason for a plane
firing missiles at the towers just before impact.

See the film. Make your own decision.

Writer/producer Von Kleist, director William Lewis and Power Hour
Productions deserve all the credit possible for bringing this
presentation to the world. This could in fact be the one item that
finally overturns the coverup.

Every American should see this film. And every cop, too. And perhaps if
there is a prosecutor remaining in America with a scintilla of honesty
and integrity, he should consider this video as prima facie evidence in
the greatest crime in American history, and maybe do something about
that.

To order the film, go to http://www.thepowerhour.com/

To see clips of the missile firing, check out http://letsroll911.org/

(2) transcript of Fox report on Israeli 911 spies (now removed from Fox
site)

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:06:56 +0500 From: "Eric Walberg"
<eric@albatros.uz>

Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S.?

These items have since been removed from the FOX News web site:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5133.htm

Author: Carl Cameron

Part I: BRIT HUME, HOST: It has been more than 16 years since a
civilian
working for the Navy was charged with passing secrets to Israel.
Jonathan Pollard pled guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage and is
serving a life sentence. At first, Israeli leaders claimed Pollard was
part of a rogue operation, but later took responsibility for his work.

Now Fox News has learned some U.S. investigators believe that there are
Israelis again very much engaged in spying in and on the U.S., who may
have known things they didn't tell us before September 11. Fox News
correspondent Carl Cameron has details in the first of a four-part
series.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CARL CAMERON, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Since September 11, more than 60
Israelis have been arrested or detained, either under the new patriot
anti-terrorism law, or for immigration violations. A handful of active
Israeli military were among those detained, according to investigators,
who say some of the detainees also failed polygraph questions when
asked
about alleged surveillance activities against and in the United States.

There is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9-11
attacks, but investigators suspect that they Israelis may have gathered
intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it. A highly
placed investigator said there are "tie-ins." But when asked for
details, he flatly refused to describe them, saying, "evidence linking
these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence
that has been gathered. It's classified information."

Fox News has learned that one group of Israelis, spotted in North
Carolina recently, is suspected of keeping an apartment in California
to
spy on a group of Arabs who the United States is also investigating for
links to terrorism. Numerous classified documents obtained by Fox News
indicate that even prior to September 11, as many as 140 other Israelis
had been detained or arrested in a secretive and sprawling
investigation
into suspected espionage by Israelis in the United States.

Investigators from numerous government agencies are part of a working
group that's been compiling evidence since the mid '90s. These
documents
detail hundreds of incidents in cities and towns across the country
that
investigators say, "may well be an organized intelligence gathering
activity."

The first part of the investigation focuses on Israelis who say they
are
art students from the University of Jerusalem and Bazala Academy. They
repeatedly made contact with U.S. government personnel, the report
says,
by saying they wanted to sell cheap art or handiwork.

Documents say they, "targeted and penetrated military bases." The DEA,
FBI and dozens of government facilities, and even secret offices and
unlisted private homes of law enforcement and intelligence personnel.
The majority of those questioned, "stated they served in military
intelligence, electronic surveillance intercept and or explosive
ordinance units."

Another part of the investigation has resulted in the detention and
arrests of dozens of Israelis at American mall kiosks, where they've
been selling toys called Puzzle Car and Zoom Copter. Investigators
suspect a front.

Shortly after The New York Times and Washington Post reported the
Israeli detentions last months, the carts began vanishing. Zoom
Copter's
Web page says, "We are aware of the situation caused by thousands of
mall carts being closed at the last minute. This in no way reflects the
quality of the toy or its salability. The problem lies in the
operators'
business policies."

Why would Israelis spy in and on the U.S.? A general accounting office
investigation referred to Israel as country A and said, "According to a
U.S. intelligence agency, the government of country A conducts the most
aggressive espionage operations against the U.S. of any U.S. ally."

A defense intelligence report said Israel has a voracious appetite for
information and said, "the Israelis are motivated by strong survival
instincts which dictate every possible facet of their political and
economical policies. It aggressively collects military and industrial
technology and the U.S. is a high priority target."

The document concludes: "Israel possesses the resources and technical
capability to achieve its collection objectives."

(END VIDEO CLIP)

A spokesman for the Israeli embassy here in Washington issued a denial
saying that any suggestion that Israelis are spying in or on the U.S.
is
"simply not true." There are other things to consider. And in the days
ahead, we'll take a look at the U.S. phone system and law enforcement's
methods for wiretaps. And an investigation that both have been
compromised by our friends overseas.

HUME: Carl, what about this question of advanced knowledge of what was
going to happen on 9-11? How clear are investigators that some Israeli
agents may have known something?

CAMERON: It's very explosive information, obviously, and there's a
great
deal of evidence that they say they have collected - none of it
necessarily conclusive. It's more when they put it all together. A
bigger question, they say, is how could they not have know? Almost a
direct quote.

HUME: Going into the fact that they were spying on some Arabs, right?

CAMERON: Correct.

HUME: All right, Carl, thanks very much.

Carl Cameron Investigates Part 2 - Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S.?

Thursday, December 13, 2001

This partial transcript of Special Report with Brit Hume, Dec. 12, was
provided by the Federal Document Clearing House. Click here to order
the
complete transcript.

Part 2 of 4

BRIT HUME, HOST: Last time we reported on the approximately 60 Israelis
who had been detained in connection with the Sept. 11 terrorism
investigation. Carl Cameron reported that U.S. investigators suspect
that some of these Israelis were spying on Arabs in this country, and
may have turned up information on the planned terrorist attacks back in
September that was not passed on.

Tonight, in the second of four reports on spying by Israelis in the
U.S., we learn about an Israeli-based private communications company,
for whom a half-dozen of those 60 detained suspects worked. American
investigators fear information generated by this firm may have fallen
into the wrong hands and had the effect of impeded the Sept. 11 terror
inquiry. Here's Carl Cameron's second report.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CARL CAMERON, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Fox News has learned
that some American terrorist investigators fear certain suspects in the
Sept. 11 attacks may have managed to stay ahead of them, by knowing who
and when investigators are calling on the telephone. How?

By obtaining and analyzing data that's generated every time someone in
the U.S. makes a call.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What city and state, please?

CAMERON: Here's how the system works. Most directory assistance calls,
and virtually all call records and billing in the U.S. are done for the
phone companies by Amdocs Ltd., an Israeli-based private
elecommunications company.

Amdocs has contracts with the 25 biggest phone companies in America,
and
more worldwide. The White House and other secure government phone lines
are protected, but it is virtually impossible to make a call on normal
phones without generating an Amdocs record of it.

In recent years, the FBI and other government agencies have
investigated
Amdocs more than once. The firm has repeatedly and adamantly denied any
security breaches or wrongdoing. But sources tell Fox News that in
1999,
the super secret national security agency, headquartered in northern
Maryland, issued what's called a Top Secret sensitive compartmentalized
information report, TS/SCI, warning that records of calls in the United
States were getting into foreign hands - in Israel, in particular.

Investigators don't believe calls are being listened to, but the data
about who is calling whom and when is plenty valuable in itself. An
internal Amdocs memo to senior company executives suggests just how
Amdocs generated call records could be used. "Widespread data mining
techniques and algorithms.... combining both the properties of the
customer (e.g., credit rating) and properties of the specific
`behavior..'" Specific behavior, such as who the customers are calling.

The Amdocs memo says the system should be used to prevent phone fraud.
But U.S. counterintelligence analysts say it could also be used to spy
through the phone system. Fox News has learned that the N.S.A has held
numerous classified conferences to warn the F.B.I. and C.I.A. how
Amdocs
records could be used. At one NSA briefing, a diagram by the Argon
national lab was used to show that if the phone records are not secure,
major security breaches are possible.

Another briefing document said, "It has become increasingly apparent
that systems and networks are vulnerable..Such crimes always involve
unauthorized persons, or persons who exceed their
authorization...citing
on exploitable vulnerabilities."

Those vulnerabilities are growing, because according to another
briefing, the U.S. relies too much on foreign companies like Amdocs for
high-tech equipment and software. "Many factors have led to increased
dependence on code developed overseas.... We buy rather than train or
develop solutions."

U.S. intelligence does not believe the Israeli government is involved
in
a misuse of information, and Amdocs insists that its data is secure.
What U.S. government officials are worried about, however, is the
possibility that Amdocs data could get into the wrong hands,
particularly organized crime. And that would not be the first thing
that
such a thing has happened. Fox News has documents of a 1997 drug
trafficking case in Los Angeles, in which telephone information, the
type that Amdocs collects, was used to "completely compromise the
communications of the FBI, the Secret Service, the DEO and the LAPD."

We'll have that and a lot more in the days ahead - Brit.

HUME: Carl, I want to take you back to your report last night on those
60 Israelis who were detained in the anti-terror investigation, and the
suspicion that some investigators have that they may have picked up
information on the 9/11 attacks ahead of time and not passed it on.

There was a report, you'll recall, that the Mossad, the Israeli
intelligence agency, did indeed send representatives to the U.S. to
warn, just before 9/11, that a major terrorist attack was imminent. How
does that leave room for the lack of a warning?

CAMERON: I remember the report, Brit. We did it first internationally
right here on your show on the 14th. What investigators are saying is
that that warning from the Mossad was nonspecific and general, and they
believe that it may have had something to do with the desire to protect
what are called sources and methods in the intelligence community. The
suspicion being, perhaps those sources and methods were taking place
right here in the United States.

The question came up in select intelligence committee on Capitol Hill
today. They intend to look into what we reported last night, and
specifically that possibility - Brit.

HUME: So in other words, the problem wasn't lack of a warning, the
problem was lack of useful details?

CAMERON: Quantity of information.

HUME: All right, Carl, thank you very much.

Carl Cameron Investigates Part 3 : Comverse, CALEA, Israel and the
terror investigation

HUME: Last time we reported on an Israeli-based company called Amdocs
Ltd. that generates the computerized records and billing data for
nearly
every phone call made in America. As Carl Cameron reported, U.S.
investigators digging into the 9/11 terrorist attacks fear that
suspects
may have been tipped off to what they were doing by information leaking
out of Amdocs. In tonight's report, we learn that the concern about
phone security extends to another company, founded in Israel, that
provides the technology that the U.S. government uses for electronic
eavesdropping. Here is Carl Cameron's third report.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CARL CAMERON, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The company is
Comverse Infosys, a subsidiary of an Israeli-run private
telecommunications firm, with offices throughout the U.S. It provides
wiretapping equipment for law enforcement. Here's how wiretapping works
in the U.S.

Every time you make a call, it passes through the nation's elaborate
network of switchers and routers run by the phone companies. Custom
computers and software, made by companies like Comverse, are tied into
that network to intercept, record and store the wiretapped calls, and
at
the same time transmit them to investigators.

The manufacturers have continuing access to the computers so they can
service them and keep them free of glitches. This process was
authorized
by the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or
CALEA.
Senior government officials have now told Fox News that while CALEA
made
wiretapping easier, it has led to a system that is seriously vulnerable
to compromise, and may have undermined the whole wiretapping system.

Indeed, Fox News has learned that Attorney General John Ashcroft and
FBI
Director Robert Mueller were both warned Oct. 18 in a hand- delivered
letter from 15 local, state and federal law enforcement officials, who
complained that "law enforcement's current electronic surveillance
capabilities are less effective today than they were at the time CALEA
was enacted."

Congress insists the equipment it installs is secure. But the complaint
about this system is that the wiretap computer programs made by
Comverse
have, in effect, a back door through which wiretaps themselves can be
intercepted by unauthorized parties.

Adding to the suspicions is the fact that in Israel, Comverse works
closely with the Israeli government, and under special programs, gets
reimbursed for up to 50 percent of its research and development costs
by
the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Trade. But investigators within
the
DEA, INS and FBI have all told Fox News that to pursue or even suggest
Israeli spying through Comverse is considered career suicide.

And sources say that while various F.B.I. inquiries into Comverse have
been conducted over the years, they've been halted before the actual
equipment has ever been thoroughly tested for leaks. A 1999 F.C.C.
document indicates several government agencies expressed deep concerns
that too many unauthorized non-law enforcement personnel can access the
wiretap system. And the FBI's own nondescript office in Chantilly,
Virginia that actually oversees the CALEA wiretapping program, is among
the most agitated about the threat.

But there is a bitter turf war internally at F.B.I. It is the FBI's
office in Quantico, Virginia, that has jurisdiction over awarding
contracts and buying intercept equipment. And for years, they've thrown
much of the business to Comverse. A handful of former U.S. law
enforcement officials involved in awarding Comverse government
contracts
over the years now work for the company.

Numerous sources say some of those individuals were asked to leave
government service under what knowledgeable sources call "troublesome
circumstances" that remain under administrative review within the
Justice Department.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

And what troubles investigators most, particularly in New York, in the
counter terrorism investigation of the World Trade Center attack, is
that on a number of cases, suspects that they had sought to wiretap and
survey immediately changed their telecommunications processes. They
started acting much differently as soon as those supposedly secret
wiretaps went into place - Brit.

HUME: Carl, is there any reason to suspect in this instance that the
Israeli government is involved?

CAMERON: No, there's not. But there are growing instincts in an awful
lot of law enforcement officials in a variety of agencies who suspect
that it had begun compiling evidence, and a highly classified
investigation into that possibility - Brit.

HUME: All right, Carl. Thanks very much.

Part 4: Carl Cameron Investigates

FNC Carl Cameron Monday, December 17, 2001

Part 4 of 4

TONY SNOW, HOST: This week, senior correspondent Carl Cameron has
reported on a longstanding government espionage investigation. Federal
officials this year have arrested or detained nearly 200 Israeli
citizens suspected of belonging to an "organized intelligence-
gathering
operation." The Bush administration has deported most of those arrested
after Sept. 11, although some are in custody under the new
anti-terrorism law.

Cameron also investigates the possibility that an Israeli firm
generated
billing data that could be used for intelligence purpose, and describes
concerns that the federal government's own wiretapping system may be
vulnerable. Tonight, in part four of the series, we'll learn about the
probable roots of the probe: a drug case that went bad four years ago
in
L.A.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CARL CAMERON, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Los Angeles, 1997, a
major local, state and federal drug investigating sours. The suspects:
Israeli organized crime with operations in New York, Miami, Las Vegas,
Canada, Israel and Egypt. The allegations: cocaine and ecstasy
trafficking, and sophisticated white-collar credit card and computer
fraud.

The problem: according to classified law enforcement documents obtained
by Fox News, the bad guys had the cops' beepers, cell phones, even home
phones under surveillance. Some who did get caught admitted to having
hundreds of numbers and using them to avoid arrest.

"This compromised law enforcement communications between LAPD
detectives
and other assigned law enforcement officers working various aspects of
the case. The organization discovered communications between organized
crime intelligence division detectives, the FBI and the Secret
Service."

Shock spread from the DEA to the FBI in Washington, and then the CIA.
An
investigation of the problem, according to law enforcement documents,
concluded, "The organization has apparent extensive access to database
systems to identify pertinent personal and biographical information."

When investigators tried to find out where the information might have
come from, they looked at Amdocs, a publicly traded firm based in
Israel. Amdocs generates billing data for virtually every call in
America, and they do credit checks. The company denies any leaks, but
investigators still fear that the firm's data is getting into the wrong
hands.

When investigators checked their own wiretapping system for leaks, they
grew concerned about potential vulnerabilities in the computers that
intercept, record and store the wiretapped calls. A main contractor is
Comverse Infosys, which works closely with the Israeli government, and
under a special grant program, is reimbursed for up to 50 percent of
its
research and development costs by Israel's Ministry of Industry and
Trade.

Asked this week about another sprawling investigation and the detention
of 60 Israeli since Sept. 11, the Bush administration treated the
questions like hot potatoes.

ARI FLEISCHER, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I would just refer you to
the Department of Justice with that. I'm not familiar with the report.

COLIN POWELL, SECRETARY OF STATE: I'm aware that some Israeli citizens
have been detained. With respect to why they're being detained and the
other aspects of your question - whether it's because they're in
intelligence services, or what they were doing - I will defer to the
Department of Justice and the FBI to answer that.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

CAMERON: Beyond the 60 apprehended or detained, and many deported since
Sept. 11, another group of 140 Israeli individuals have been arrested
and detained in this year in what government documents describe as "an
organized intelligence gathering operation," designed to "penetrate
government facilities." Most of those individuals said they had served
in the Israeli military, which is compulsory there.

But they also had, most of them, intelligence expertise, and either
worked for Amdocs or other companies in Israel that specialize in
wiretapping. Earlier this week, the Israeli embassy in Washington
denied
any spying against or in the United States - Tony.

SNOW: Carl, we've heard the comments from Ari Fleischer and Colin
Powell. What are officials saying behind the scenes?

CAMERON: Well, there's real pandemonium described at the FBI, the DEA
and the INS. A lot of these problems have been well known to some
investigators, many of who have contributed to the reporting on this
story. And what they say is happening is supervisors and management are
now going back and collecting much of the information, because there's
tremendous pressure from the top levels of all of those agencies to
find
out exactly what's going on.

At the DEA and the FBI already a variety of administration reviews are
under way, in addition to the investigation of the phenomenon. They
want
to find out how it is all this has come out, as well as be very careful
because of the explosive nature and very political ramifications of the
story itself - Tony.

SNOW: All right, Carl, thanks.

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Alpha · Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 7:16 am Post subject: It's Time to Put America First

It's Time to Put America First

Commentary by Laura Dawn Lewis

http://www.couplescompany.com/Features/Politics/2004/Cipel1.htm#First

Another Israeli Spy, as reported by CBS is suspected in the Pentagon, though some news sources state this is the first time since Pollard during the 1980's one has been caught.

This is categorically untrue. September 11, 2001 five Mossad assets were arrested celebrating the attack in New Jersey as the Twin Towers disintegrated. In January 2002, FOX News exposed a nationwide Israeli Spy ring utilizing art students and mall kiosk workers in the hundreds nationwide, in addition to the use of moving companies as Mossad fronts in the United States. Between September 11, 2001 and January 2002 we deported nearly 800 Israeli nationals suspected of spying on the US. This moving company manifestation continues both in organized crime and earlier this year more Israeli agents under the cover of moving company workers were caught in Tennessee attempting to smuggle out classified submarine fuel. We have the wire and phone tapping scandals by Israeli companies likewise exposed in this time frame. Then we have Golan Cipel, a confirmed Israeli Agent.

It's long been suspected that members of JINSA, (Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs) the authors of our current war in Iraq, the PNAC (Project for the new American Century) and organizations including AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) which lobbies congress and is considered the most powerful lobby in America and the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), which acts as the Intelligence Arm in the United States under the guise of fighting racism while it promotes, funds and protects it in Israel have been involved in securing American support, funds and munitions on behalf of Israeli interests.

To speak of such automatically brands the reporter or politician anti-Semitic. There is nothing anti-Semitic about protesting or pointing to our security breaches and undue influence on US policy, politicians, budgets and the Constitution (Several pro-Israel but unconstitutional resolutions have been winding through congress stripping Americans of our 1st, 4th, 5th and 10th Amendment rights while protecting Israel from scrutiny including HR4230, HR3077 and S-625). Rather it is anti-American not to object. It is our country after all. To date these organizations hide behind the Jewish faith, curbing any discussion in the mainstream press through accusations of anti-Semitism.

This new spy scandal in Washington DC must be huge for CBS to risk condemnation by AIPAC and the Christian Zionists. Otherwise it would be covered up like the aforementioned incidents of the past three years. AIPAC will swing into action and attempt to minimize this, denying of course everything. Israeli loyalists in the media will attempt to spin this as not damaging because Israel is our "friend"; don't be surprised by this. Ariel Sharon has bragged on at least one public occasion that Israel controls the US Media. But what Americans need to realize, only Israel continually gets caught spying on us, selling our military secrets to communist countries and compromising our security. Britain doesn't do this. France doesn't do this. Canada doesn't do this, nor does Mexico and there would be hell to pay if they did. This discovery is the tip of the iceberg.

The biggest problems facing American democracy, our constitution and freedom, all trace back to the same little country, the one we keep catching spying and selling our security, the same country both Bush and Kerry proudly and publicly swear their solidarity to, our "friend" Israel.

The Agenda

This isn't about religion, nor is it about "fighting terrorism"; the issues would be the same if Israel were Catholic, Muslim or Buddhist. Religion continues to be used as a weapon to obscure and prevent discussion. As far as terrorism, it wouldn't exist in the Middle East if Israel ceased exterminating its neighbors, or if it had adhered to the agreement establishing the State of Israel in 1948.

(Israel possesses the 4th largest military in the world with over 600 WMD's. Israel is not a helpless nor an oppressed nation by any means. It defeated several nations in just six days and it has always, from day one outnumber the totality of all Arab country militaries by at least 3:1)

Terrorism wouldn't exist for Israel if America its enabler wasn't continually supplying the injunctions, money and weapons of oppression. Its problems with terrorism originate because of its policies: apartheid, genocide, racism, elitism and ethnic cleansing, nothing more.

If Americans truly want to end the threat of terrorism, the solution begins in Palestine and it is called justice, not apartheid. Continuing to shield Israel isn't helping Israelis. It's killing them, morally, spiritually and physically. If Americans really care about the Israelis and really want to save the Jewish people the biggest favor we can do for them is cut off all support until they learn to get along with their neighbors. This they will do quickly; they've gotten along in relative peace from nearly 1900 years. Terrorism will end without the financial and political support of America. It's called tough love and it works whether we're speaking of teenagers, alcoholics or rogue nations drunk on elitism and racism.

America please tell me, how many spies are required for this nation to wake up? Why we are supporting presidential candidates who place the welfare and importance of a foreign theocracy, primary and before the Constitution and the welfare of the United States? Does it not seem odd for the President of the United States and three quarters of congress to proudly swear their solidarity to a foreign country? Think about that. Think about what that really means. As Americans we need to decide whether we continue to cower in fear of being labeled anti-Semitic for simply standing up for our country, or whether Americans are willing to pay the true price of freedom by fielding these accusations and exposing them for the BS they are. What is more important: The Constitution, Freedom and the United States, or apartheid, terrorism and Israel.

I vote for America. What amazes me is how few of my countrymen agree. If the choice is between supporting Israeli apartheid and the United States our constitution and freedom, Israeli apartheid and racism win every time. I don't get it. What are we afraid of, a little name calling, being called racists for objecting to racism? Anyone who thinks will see this for the oxymoron it is. Honestly, there is nothing anti-Semitic about putting American interests first. We are American; we're supposed to. It's called self-preservation. After thirty-seven years and nearly two-trillion in aid and munitions to Israel, it is time we put the United States first. This is easy. All we need to do is follow the Constitution and apply the same standards we adhere to in the United States with our actions and support abroad. Apartheid, racism, oppression, ethnic cleansing are not American values. So why in Israel do we fund, defend and support them? If this isn't hypocrisy, what is? Isn't it time to put America first...

Alpha · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:04 am Post subject: It's Time to Put America First

The following is an expanded version of what was posted earlier:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2004/08/29/it-s-time-to-put-america-first-before-israel.php

It's Time to Put America First
08/29/2004
Commentary by Laura Dawn Lewis

Another potential Israeli spy, Larry Franklin, a desk officer in the Defense Department's Near East and South Asia Bureau, working under Douglas Feith as first reported by CBS, is suspected as the Pentagon mole, though some news sources state this is the first time since Pollard during the 1980's, one has been caught.

spies among us
That number is off by at least eight-hundred. September 11, 2001 five Mossad assets were arrested celebrating the attack in New Jersey as the Twin Towers disintegrated. In January 2002, FOX News exposed a nationwide Israeli spy ring utilizing art students and mall kiosk workers in the hundreds nationwide, in addition to the use of moving companies as Mossad fronts in the United States.

Between September 11, 2001 and January 2002 we deported nearly 800 Israeli nationals suspected of spying on the US. This moving company manifestation continues both in organized crime and earlier this year more Israeli agents under the cover of moving company workers were caught in Tennessee attempting to smuggle out classified submarine fuel. We have the wire and phone tapping scandals by Israeli companies likewise exposed in this time frame. Then we have Golan Cipel, a confirmed Israeli Agent.

It's long been suspected that members of JINSA, (Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs) the authors of our current war in Iraq, the PNAC (Project for the new American Century) and organizations including AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) which lobbies congress and is considered the most powerful lobby in America and the ADL (Anti-Defamation League), which acts as the Intelligence arm in the United States (The ADL has been caught multiple times, tried and convicted for illegal spying and harassment of American citizens) under the guise of fighting racism while it promotes, funds and protects this same racism in Israel. All of these agencies and several others have been involved in securing American support, funds and munitions on behalf of Israeli interests, to the detriment of American rights, American tax payments and International objectives.

To speak of such automatically brands the reporter or politician anti-Semitic, which is ironic because the ADL like the cat with the canary, writes the rules about what is anti-Semitic and what isn't. There is nothing anti-Semitic about protesting or pointing to our security breaches and undue influence on US policy, politicians, media, budgets and the Constitution

(Several pro-Israel but unconstitutional resolutions have been winding through congress stripping Americans of our 1st, 4th, 5th and 10th Amendment rights while protecting Israel from scrutiny including HR4230, HR3077 and S-625. These always appear benign and helpful on the surface. They are not.).

Rather it is anti-American not to object. It is our country after all. To date these organizations hide behind the Jewish faith, curbing any discussion in the mainstream press through accusations of anti-Semitism.

The Franklin spy scandal in Washington DC must be enormous for CBS to risk condemnation by AIPAC and the Christian Zionists. Otherwise it would be covered up like the aforementioned incidents of the past three years. AIPAC will swing into action and attempt to minimize this, denying of course everything. Israeli loyalists in the media will attempt to spin this as not damaging because Israel is our "friend"; don't be surprised by this. Ariel Sharon has bragged on at least one public occasion that Israel controls the US Media.

"While AIPAC claims it never heard of Larry Franklin, he is known to the Israeli intelligence community. He has appeared more than once at meetings with Israeli intelligence, especially with military intelligence, mostly in a group setting."--Ha'aretz Daily, Israel (08/29/2004)

Americans need to realize, only Israel continually gets caught spying on us, (and Australia, New Zealand and other countries it denies spying on even after their agents are convicted and thrown in jail) selling our military secrets to communist countries and compromising our security. Britain doesn't do this. France doesn't do this. Canada doesn't do this, nor does Mexico and there would be hell to pay if they did. But as our "special" friend, Israel gets away with murder, espionage and every other sin at the expense of US security, credibility, taxes, morality and international standing.

The major problems facing American democracy, our constitution and freedom, all trace back to the same little country, the one we keep catching spying and selling our security, the same country both Bush and Kerry proudly and publicly swear their solidarity to, our "friend" Israel.

THE AGENDA
This isn't about religion, nor is it about "fighting terrorism"; the issues remain the same if Israel is Catholic, Muslim or Buddhist. Religion continues to be used as a weapon to obscure and prevent discussion. As far as terrorism, it wouldn't exist in the Middle East if Israel ceased exterminating its neighbors, or if it adhered to the agreement establishing the State of Israel in 1948. Rather than live in peace and equality, Israel instituted a campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide.

(Israel possesses the 4th largest military in the world with over 600 WMD's. Israel is not a helpless nor an oppressed nation. It defeated several nations in just six days and it has always, from day one outnumber the totality of all Arab country militaries by at least 3:1)

Terrorism exist because Israel's American enabler continually supplies it with UN injunctions, money and the weapons of oppression. Israel's problems find origin in its policies: apartheid, genocide, racism, elitism and ethnic cleansing, nothing more. It is that simple.

If Americans truly want to end terrorism, the solution begins in Palestine; it is called justice, not apartheid. Continuing to shield Israel isn't helping Israelis. It's killing them, morally, spiritually and physically. If Americans really care about the Israelis and really want to save the Jewish people the biggest favor we can do is eighty-six all support until they learn to get along with their neighbors. Muslims, Jews and Christians existed together in relative peace from nearly 1900 years. Terrorism will end in the Middle East once the financial and political support of America ends. It's called tough love and it works whether we're speaking of unruly teenagers, alcoholics or rogue nations drunk on elitism, entitlement and racism.

Wacky Priorities
America please tell me, how many spies are required for this nation to wake up? And please tell me why we rally behind presidential candidates placing the welfare and importance of a foreign theocracy before the Constitution and the welfare of the United States? Does it not seem odd for the President of the United States and three quarters of congress to proudly swear their solidarity to a foreign country? Think about that. Think about what that really means.

The CIA consistently reports Israel is disruptive in American efforts to improve its relations with Arab Nations and on improving relations between Washington and Damascus. This may be one reason why a change of command at the CIA and the push to dismantle the CIA as obsolete is occurring in the Bush Administration currently under the control of hard-line neocons notorious for placing Israeli interests before American. Similar campaigns toward obsolescence are being waged by the same neocons against the other main obstacles to Israeli free reign: the United Nations and the World Court, both which consistently validate the CIA stance on this issue.

Decision Time
As Americans we need to decide whether we continue to cower in fear of being labeled anti-Semitic for standing up for our country, or pay the true price of freedom by fielding these accusations and exposing them for the BS they are. Which is more important: The Constitution, Freedom and the United States, or apartheid, terrorism and Israel?

I vote for America. What amazes me is how few of my countrymen agree. If the choice is between supporting Israeli apartheid and the United States our constitution and freedom, Israeli apartheid and racism win every time. I don't get it. What are we afraid of, a little name calling, being called racists for objecting to racism? Anyone who thinks will see this for the oxymoron it is.

There is nothing anti-Semitic about putting American interests first. We are American; we're supposed to. It's called self-preservation.

After thirty-seven years and nearly two-trillion in aid and munitions to Israel, it is time we put the United States first. This is easy. Simply follow the Constitution and apply the same standards we adhere to in the United States with our actions and support abroad. Apartheid, racism, oppression, ethnic cleansing are not American values. So why in Israel do we fund, defend and support them? Would not that money be better spent supporting our own (healthcare, education, Social Security etc...) rather than funding the sources and providing the reasons for terrorism?

Alpha

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:22:11 -0700
From: "Jeffrey Blankfort" <jblankfort@earthlink.net> View Contact Details
Subject: Chuztpah! Mossad agents sue US for imprisonment

At least two of these Israelis were identified as Mossad agents in the
Forward, 3/15/02 and were working for a phony moving company whose boss
was also identified as working for Mossad, and who was able to leave
for
Israel before being arrested. These folks have no shame.

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Israelis arrested on 9/11 sue U.S.
By Yuval Yoaz

Four Israelis arrested in New York on September 11, 2001, a short while after the attacks on the World Trade Center, filed a multi-million-dollar suit in the United States on Monday against the American Department of Justice.

The four, Paul and Sylvian Kurcheil, Omer Marmari and Vyron Shmuel, claim that their arrests were illegal, and that they were held for months while they were interrogated and tortured.

In their suit, filed in New York District Court through their attorneys, Nitzana Dershen-Leitner and Robert Tulchin, they claim that "law officials, policemen and jailers arrested the four illegally, for a long and protracted period, and violated their human rights while they were detained at a holding center in 2001."

The four were employed by a New Jersey moving firm and the truck they were riding in was stopped near the George Washington bridge between New Jersey and New York when the Twin Towers were attacked.

The police officers arrested the four after they saw that they held foreign (Israeli) driving licenses. They were arrested as suspects in the terrorist attack and were transfered to the FBI for interrogation.

The four, who are now in Israel, claim that they were held in complete isolation, without being allowed to meet with their attorneys or their families, and were exposed to harsh interrogation methods, physical abuse, sleep deprivation and racist insults

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