| Alpha | | Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 5:36 am Post subject: Pollardites in the Pentagon? |
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Pollardites in the Pentagon?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
In 1987, Jonathan Pollard, U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, was
imprisoned for
life for selling a roomful of U.S. secret documents to Israel. Tel Aviv
refused to return them. At the Clinton-Netanyahu summit at Wye River,
Pollard
became a subject of contention.
"Bibi" Netanyahu wanted to fly the American traitor back to Israel
where he
is a hero. Clinton balked. CIA's George Tenet would resign, Clinton
told
Netanyahu, if he pardoned Pollard.
This history is recalled for a reason. Washington today is rife with
reports
the FBI has been investigating whether or not a nest of Pollardites
inside the
Pentagon has been funneling secrets, through the Israeli lobby AIPAC,
to the
Reno Road embassy and on to Sharon.
Suspected mole Larry Franklin, a Pentagon Iranian analyst, was
reportedly
sighted trying to hand over to an AIPAC official a draft copy of a
National
Security Presidential Directive on Iran. With the mullahs apparently
pursuing
atomic bombs, Israel wants the United States to attack, denuclearize
and bring down
its No. 1 enemy, the regime in Tehran.
Franklin popped up on FBI radar when he joined a breakfast meeting
between an
AIPAC man and an Israeli diplomat. AIPAC had been under FBI
surveillance for
over two years as a probable conduit to Israel of the fruits of
espionage
against the United States.
Franklin, a devout Catholic and hawk on Iran, is now said to be
cooperating
with the FBI. His boss, William Luti, is the deputy to the Pentagon's
No. 3,
Douglas Feith, who has close ties to Likud.
According to The Washington Post, the FBI is now interviewing present
and
ex-officials from Cheney's office and the Pentagon as to whether Feith,
Richard
Perle, David Wurmser and Paul Wolfowitz might have leaked U.S. security
secrets
to Israel, AIPAC or Ahmed Chalabi.
Chalabi, once the Pentagon's candidate to succeed Saddam, has lately
fallen
from favor. Reportedly, he was caught telling Iran's intelligence
station chief
in Baghdad that friends in the Pentagon informed him they had broken
Iran's
code and were listening in on Iran's secret communications between
Baghdad and
Tehran.
AIPAC and the Israelis deny any spying. Cooperation between the Bush
and
Sharon governments is so close, they insist, there is no need to commit
espionage
or thieve U.S. documents. Perhaps, but the men about whom the FBI is
inquiring
have old, deep and questionable ties to Israel and the Likud Party of
Ariel
Sharon.
*
In 1970, Perle was picked up on an FBI wiretap discussing NSC secrets
with
the Israeli embassy. In 1981, as assistant secretary of defense, Perle
got a
top-secret security clearance for his chosen deputy Stephen Bryen, who
is said to
have narrowly eluded indictment for offering top-secret documents to
Mossad's
man in Washington.
*
In 1982, Feith was the object of an inquiry as to whether he had given
secret
documents to the Israeli embassy. Fired from the NSC, he was hired by
Perle.
Feith left the Pentagon in 1986 to form a law firm – in Israel. Hired
by
Rumsfeld in 2001, Feith set up the Office of Special Plans, which
cherry-picked the
intelligence to the White House that turned out to be false, but
facilitated
the war on Iraq.
*
In 1996, Perle, Feith and Wurmser co-authored a paper for Netanyahu
calling
for ditching Oslo, reoccupying the West Bank and overthrowing Saddam as
"an
important Israeli strategic objective."
*
In 1998, Wolfowitz and Perle signed an open letter from the
neoconservative
front group PNAC to Clinton, urging him to ditch diplomacy and wage war
on
Iraq, and pledging their full support.
*
On Jan. 1, 2001, eight months before 9/11, Wurmser, at AEI, called for
joint
U.S.-Israeli air strikes on Iraq, Iran, Syria and Libya.
*
According to White House anti-terror chief Richard Clarke, Wolfowitz,
in
April 2001, wanted Osama put on a back burner and for us to go after
Iraq. In the
first hours after 9/11, according to Bob Woodward and Clarke, Wolfowitz
wanted
Iraq invaded, not Afghanistan. For his role in steering us into war,
Wolfowitz was named Man of the Year – by the Jerusalem Post.
In my new book, Where the Right Went Wrong, there is a line that now
appears
prophetic: "America needs a Middle East policy made in the USA, not in
Tel
Aviv, or at AIPAC or AEI."
Having promised him a cakewalk to Baghdad and a rose garden thereafter,
neoconservatives misled President Bush. He should have fired the lot of
them.
Having failed to do so, he ought now, in his own interests, as well as
our
nation's, name Patrick "Bulldog" Fitzgerald, now heading up the
investigation into the
Valerie Plame leak, to head up the investigation of Israeli espionage,
and
possible treason, against the United States.
If there has been a recurrence of Pollardism at the Pentagon, we need
to know
and the president needs to act, as Truman did not with Alger Hiss and
Harry
Dexter White.
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