| Author | Message | | Alpha | | Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 10:26 am Post subject: U.S. Diplomat Is Named in AIPAC Secrets Case |
| This is the same Satterfield who has helped to continue the cover-up of Israel's treacherous attack on the USS Liberty ( http://www.ussliberty.com ) as he wouldn't allow Captain Ward Boston's declaration (which James Bamford read at the USS Liberty panel discussion at the State Department which can be viewed via the link at the bottom of www.irmep.org ) to be added to the historical record at the State Department (the Office of the Historian at the State Department - Mark Susser - as he can be seen cutting off the USS Liberty survivors in the same video of the US State Department panel discussion which can be viewed via accessing the link near the bottom of www.irmep.org):
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August 18, 2005
U.S. Diplomat Is Named in Secrets Case
By DAVID JOHNSTON and JAMES RISEN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 - The second-highest diplomat at the United States Embassy in Baghdad is one of the anonymous government officials cited in an Aug. 4 indictment as having provided classified information to an employee of a pro-Israel lobbying group, people who have been officially briefed on the case said Wednesday.
The diplomat, David M. Satterfield, was identified in the indictment as a United States government official, "USGO-2," the people briefed on the matter said. In early 2002, USGO-2 discussed secret national security matters in two meetings with Steven J. Rosen, who has since been dismissed as a top lobbyist for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, known as Aipac, who has been charged in the case.
The indictment said that Mr. Rosen met USGO-2 on Jan. 18, 2002, and March 12, 2002, but provides few details about the encounters. The indictment does not describe Mr. Satterfield's activities in detail nor does it specify what classified information the diplomat discussed with the lobbyist. The meetings were also confirmed by documents, people who have been briefed said. These people asked not to be identified because many of the matters related to the case are classified.
The indictment does not accuse USGO-2 of any wrongdoing, nor does it indicate whether he might have been authorized to talk with the lobbyist. Mr. Satterfield is not believed to be the subject of a continuing investigation. He is the first higher-ranking government official to be caught up in the criminal inquiry.
Mr. Satterfield's role in the inquiry has been known within a small circle at the State Department. Before he was sent to Baghdad, officials at the State Department asked the Justice Department whether the investigation posed any impediment to his assignment in Iraq, someone who has been officially briefed said. Officials at the State Department were advised that he could take the job.
Mr. Satterfield is one of the department's rising stars. Before his assignment as deputy chief of mission in Baghdad, Mr. Satterfield, 50, held several jobs in the Clinton and Bush administrations as a Middle East expert. He was ambassador to Lebanon from 1998 to 2001, and was confirmed by the Senate as ambassador to Jordan in 2004, although he never served in that position.
Current and former colleagues say that Mr. Satterfield, who went to Iraq earlier this year, chose the Baghdad post because it posed a bigger professional challenge than Jordan. The United States ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, has strong political credentials but, colleagues said, Mr. Satterfield was brought in to provide managerial strength.
Mr. Satterfield did not respond to an e-mail message asking about his role in the case, and one State Department spokesman said that Mr. Satterfield would not discuss the matter. Sean McCormack, the spokesman for the department, referred legal questions about Mr. Satterfield to the Justice Department.
He added, "David is a fine public servant who has served the American people for many years and is continuing to do so under difficult working conditions."
The investigation is one of the more puzzling national security cases in recent years, focusing on the interactions between foreign affairs lobbyists and officials of the United States and other governments, who over the years, have routinely traded gossip and sometimes classified information. Under the Justice Department's theories of the case, it is no longer clear whether such conversations are legally permissible.
Current and former colleagues praised Mr. Satterfield as a seasoned and careful diplomat. "I've known David Satterfield for 20 years, and he is thoroughly professional, and takes his responsibilities very seriously," said Dennis Ross, the former chief Middle East negotiator for the United States and a longtime State Department official. "He has always acted solely in American interests." Martin Indyk, Mr. Satterfield's former boss in the Clinton administration, both at the National Security Council at the White House and at the State Department, said the idea that Mr. Satterfield leaked classified information is "absurd."
"The way he speaks is crafted for a public audience," Mr. Indyk said. "He has this facility for talking publicly without saying anything sensitive. So the idea that he would be leaking classified information is preposterous.
"He has an unblemished record as the consummate diplomat and as a highly effective policy maker as well. He is among the cadre of the best and the brightest in the Near East Bureau. He dealt with Aipac, because it was part of his job to deal with Aipac."
Mr. Rosen and another former lobbyist, Keith Weissman, have been charged with conspiring to communicate national defense secrets to journalists and a foreign government, which officials have identified as Israel. A third person, Lawrence A. Franklin, a former Pentagon analyst and Iran expert, has also been charged, accused of turning over information to the two lobbyists.
At an arraignment on Tuesday in Federal District Court in Alexandria, Va., all three pleaded not guilty and were released on their own recognizance. Judge T. S. Ellis III set a trial date for Jan. 3.
Only Mr. Rosen met with USGO-2, according to the indictment. At the time of the meetings, Mr. Satterfield was the deputy assistant secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, which made him the State Department's second-ranking official for the Middle East.
Their meetings are listed as overt acts in a conspiracy to illegally communicate national defense secrets to a foreign government. After Mr. Rosen's first meeting with USGO-2 on Jan. 18, 2002, the indictment said, a memorandum containing the information that Mr. Rosen had obtained was sent to other Aipac employees. The indictment did not indicate who wrote the memorandum, but said that it "contained classified information provided by USGO-2."
The two men met again on March 12, the indictment said. At their second meeting, they talked about Al Qaeda, the indictment said, without saying what aspect of the terror network was discussed. On March 14, Mr. Rosen disclosed to an unidentified foreign official, "FO-2," the information that he had heard from USGO-2, the indictment said.
Prosecutors have charged that Mr. Rosen and Mr. Weissman improperly obtained classified information from Mr. Franklin, Mr. Satterfield and two other American officials. The two officials whose identities remain unclear are referred to in the indictment as "USGO-1," and a Defense Department employee identified as "DOD-B." Although USGO-1 has not been publicly identified, the people who have been officially briefed said that person was no longer in the government.
As the Aipac's director of foreign policy issues, Mr. Rosen was a well-known figure in foreign policy circles related to the Middle East, inside and outside the government. He helped Aipac set its lobbying goals and maintained relationships with powerful conservatives in the Bush administration. Mr. Weissman was a senior Middle East analyst.
Several Middle East experts noted that Mr. Satterfield was never regarded as particularly supportive of Aipac's views on Israel. One analyst at an independent consulting firm recalled attending a conference Aipac held for Congressional staff members, during which Mr. Satterfield talked about United States policy toward Israel. She recalled that Mr. Satterfield was met with a mixed reception because his comments were not in line with Aipac's views.
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| Pollack definitely had friendly relations with Israel as the article from the 'Washington Report on Middle East Affairs' conveys via the following URL:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2005/02/13/neocons-concentrate-on-promoting-u-s-iran-war.php
The following URL conveys some interesting info as well (about Saban and Brookings):
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2004/11/21/israel-buys-another-piece-of-washington.php
Will check it out further with additional contacts...
Ray wrote:
...a very well informed person the question. answer came back that it is possible...on both fronts.
I wonder if it could be learned who funds Saban and who funded mischievous book
Insert paste of exchange below:
My questions: Is it possible that Israelis helped fund Pollack's famous book on having to make war on Iraq? Someone told me they finance the Saban center at Brookings. do you know about that?
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Following is an article from JTA — The Global News Service of the Jewish People. For in-depth coverage of the latest developments affecting Jews all over the world, click: www.jta.org
Prominent Mideast analyst says he's
U.S. official in case of ex-AIPAC men
By: Matthew E. Berger
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (JTA) — Mideast analyst Kenneth Pollack is one of two U.S. government officials referenced in the indictment against two former staffers of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, JTA has learned.
But Pollack, who was a staffer on President Clinton's National Security Council, said he didn't give the AIPAC staffers any classified information. Pollack also said the information that Steve Rosen, AIPAC's former director of foreign policy issues, is accused of passing on to a reporter could not have come from him.
“I believe I am USGO-1,” Pollack told JTA on Monday, using a term in the indictment for U.S. Government Official No. 1.
A second source, speaking on condition of anonymity, has verified the information.
Neither Pollack nor the other unnamed government official — identified by sources as David Satterfield, a former deputy assistant secretary of state — has been charged with a crime. That has raised questions about the government's case against Rosen, former AIPAC Iran analyst Keith Weissman and Larry Franklin, a former Pentagon analyst accused of passing classified information to the AIPAC staffers.
The three men pled not guilty earlier this month, and their trial is set for January.
Supporters of Rosen and Weissman in the Jewish community argue that if the people who allegedly gave them the sensitive material aren't in trouble, then the information Rosen and Weissman are accused of passing to journalists and three officials at the Israeli Embassy in Washington can hardly warrant their prosecution.
Pollack left government in March 2001 and today is director of research at the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Satterfield recently was promoted to deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Pollack confirmed he had lunch with Rosen and Weissman in December 2000 and discussed U.S. policy in Iraq.
“I don't remember the lunch and don't remember anything about the lunch,” Pollack said. “But they know I had lunch with Steve and Keith, and I don't deny it.”
According to the indictment, Rosen spoke with an unnamed reporter after the lunch and gave classified information about policy options and internal government deliberations.
The indictment says Pollack had access to the classified information Rosen allegedly discussed with the journalist, but doesn't say Pollack gave the information to the lobbyists.
That's a sharp contrast to the language regarding Satterfield, who is expressly said to have discussed classified information with Rosen.
The sequence of events is part of a charge of conspiracy to communicate national defense information brought against Rosen and Weissman earlier this month. Pollack said he could not have given the two AIPAC staffers any classified information, and the indictment doesn't suggest it either.
The new revelations are likely to intensify speculation in Washington that Rosen and Weissman are being targeted for conducting the normal Washington practice of trading sensitive information.
The two men's interaction with Pollack and Satterfield is believed to be central to the prosecutors’ case that Rosen and Weissman engaged in a pattern of seeking classified information and disseminating it to journalists and the Israeli government.
Pollack, the author of two books on U.S. policy in the Middle East and a regular commentator on CNN, said he has met with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the eastern district of Virginia, and believes he's not a subject of the investigation. State Department officials said Satterfield has been told the same thing.
A spokeswoman at the U.S, Attorney's Office had no comment. Rosen's attorney, Abbe Lowell, was unavailable for comment.
Pollack said that, according to information he has been given, Rosen spoke with an unnamed journalist after meeting with Pollack, telling the journalist that he had received from a U.S. government official an eight-point plan for regime change in Iraq. He then gave a broad description of the plan.
“There was never an eight-point plan for regime change in Iraq,” Pollack said Monday.
Pollack said he may have given Rosen and Weissman the same “talking points” on American regime-change policy that he gave to other lobbyists and Middle East policy wonks, but did not lay out a specific plan.
Because the meeting occurred just a month before the end of the Clinton administration, little work was being done on the issue until President Bush came to office.
Pollack said the talking points he gave Rosen and Weissman didn't include sensitive information. Rosen is not accused in the indictment of knowingly giving classified information to a third party in 2000, as he is on other occasions.
But Pollack suggests the meeting he had with Rosen and Weissman was similar to others he held with numerous parties interested in the administration's Middle East agenda.
Pollack said he can not imagine he gave classified information to Rosen and Weissman.
“I had a standard repertory of lines that I gave,” he said. “I knew what was kosher and not.”
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(Copyright JTA. This news is available to you on a read-only basis. Reproduction without JTA's consent is prohibited.) | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:24 am Post subject: Jerusalem Post: Mideast analyst Pollack named in AIPAC indic |
| Be sure to read the additional chapter beginning on page 403 of the recently released paperback version of esteemed US intelligence author/writer James Bamford's 'A Pretext for War' book for more on this AIPAC/Israel espionage via the Pentagon:
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:45:52 -0700
From: "Jeff Blankfort" <jblankfort@earthlink.net>
Subject: Jerusalem Post: Mideast analyst Pollack named in AIPAC indictment
What this article does not say is that former White House analyst
Kenneth Pollack was one of the main propagandists for the war in Iraq
through his articles in the New Yorker to which he is a regular
contributor but more importantly through his book, "The Threatening
Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq." Though he has, at times, tried to
publicly distance himself from the neocons, it has been purely
cosmetic.
Like AIPAC, they are all one and the same when it comes to promoting
Israel's interests first and foremost.
Jeff B
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1125454956995&p=1111893688901
Mideast analyst named in AIPAC indictment
MATTHEW E. BERGER/JTA, THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 31, 2005
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Middle East analyst Kenneth Pollack is one of two US government officials referenced in the indictment against two former staffers of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), JTA has learned.
But Pollack, who was a staffer on President Clinton's National Security Council, said he didn't give the AIPAC staffers any classified information. Pollack also said the information that Steve Rosen, AIPAC's former director of foreign policy issues, was accused of passing on to a reporter could not have come from him.
"I believe I am USGO-1," Pollack told JTA on Monday, using a term in the indictment for US Government Official No. 1.
A second source, speaking on condition of anonymity, has verified the information.
Neither Pollack nor the other unnamed government official ? identified by sources as David Satterfield, a former deputy assistant secretary of state ? has been charged with a crime. That has raised questions about the government's case against Rosen, former AIPAC Iran analyst Keith Weissman and Larry Franklin, a former Pentagon analyst accused of passing classified information to the AIPAC staffers.
The three men pled not guilty earlier this month, and their trial is set for January.
Supporters of Rosen and Weissman in the Jewish community argue that if the people who allegedly gave them the sensitive material aren't in trouble, then the information Rosen and Weissman are accused of passing to journalists and three officials at the Israeli Embassy in Washington can hardly warrant their prosecution.
Pollack left government in March 2001 and today is director of research at the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Satterfield recently was promoted to deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in Baghdad.
Pollack confirmed he had lunch with Rosen and Weissman in December 2000 and discussed US policy in Iraq. "I don't remember the lunch and don't remember anything about the lunch," Pollack said. "But they know I had lunch with Steve and Keith, and I don't deny it."
According to the indictment, Rosen spoke with an unnamed reporter after the lunch and gave classified information about policy options and internal government deliberations.
The indictment says Pollack had access to the classified information Rosen allegedly discussed with the journalist, but doesn't say Pollack gave the information to the lobbyists.
That's a sharp contrast to the language regarding Satterfield, who is expressly said to have discussed classified information with Rosen.
The sequence of events is part of a charge of conspiracy to communicate national defense information brought against Rosen and Weissman earlier this month. Pollack said he could not have given the two AIPAC staffers any classified information, and the indictment doesn't suggest it either.
The new revelations are likely to intensify speculation in Washington that Rosen and Weissman are being targeted for conducting the normal Washington practice of trading sensitive information.
The two men's interaction with Pollack and Satterfield is believed to be central to the prosecutors' case that Rosen and Weissman engaged in a pattern of seeking classified information and disseminating it to journalists and the Israeli government.
Pollack, the author of two books on US policy in the Middle East and a regular commentator on CNN, said he had met with the FBI and the US Attorney's Office for the eastern district of Virginia, and believed he was not a subject of the investigation. State Department officials said Satterfield had been told the same thing.
A spokeswoman at the US Attorney's Office had no comment. Rosen's attorney, Abbe Lowell, was unavailable for comment.
Pollack said that according to information he had been given, Rosen spoke with an unnamed journalist after meeting with Pollack, telling the journalist that he had received from a US government official an eight-point plan for regime change in Iraq. He then gave a broad description of the plan.
"There was never an eight-point plan for regime change in Iraq," Pollack said Monday.
Pollack said he might have given Rosen and Weissman the same "talking points" on American regime-change policy that he gave to other lobbyists and Middle East policy wonks, but did not lay out a specific plan.
Because the meeting occurred just a month before the end of the Clinton administration, little work was being done on the issue until President Bush came to office.
Pollack said the talking points he gave Rosen and Weissman didn't include sensitive information. Rosen is not accused in the indictment of knowingly giving classified information to a third party in 2000, as he is on other occasions.
But Pollack suggested the meeting he had with Rosen and Weissman was similar to others he held with numerous parties interested in the administration's Middle East agenda.
Pollack said he could not imagine he gave classified information to Rosen and Weissman.
"I had a standard repertory of lines that I gave," he said. "I knew what was kosher and not."
This article can also be read at http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125454956995&p=1111893688901
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| http://www.waynemadsenreport.com
August 31, 2005 -- A convergence of investigations: AIPAC and ATC. As reported previously on WMR, federal investigators are poring over wiretap transcripts 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. According to intelligence insiders, a new nexus of the investigation is the intelligence relationship discovered between AIPAC and the American Turkish Council (ATC). As with the AIPAC and Mossad penetration of the Pentagon, a similar ATC and Turkish intelligence penetration of the Defense Department was discovered and it reportedly involved some of the same players involved in the AIPAC probe, including former Deputy Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans Douglas Feith.
In addition, two former U.S. ambassadors to Turkey -- Marc Grossman (who has since joined the Cohen Group of former Defense Secretary William Cohen) and Eric Edelman, who replaced Feith at the Pentagon, were identified in FBI wiretaps as key players with the ATC. The AIPAC and ATC link involves individuals who profit from the use of Turkey as a base for nuclear materials proliferation, including fissile material from the former Soviet Central Asian states, and heroin distribution from Afghanistan and other countries to Europe and North America. The AIPAC-ATC links also involved persons and businesses tied to the A. Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network that was headquartered in Pakistan but had operational offices in Turkey. Those links, involving Israeli citizen and nuclear smuggler Asher Karni and Turkish Jewish businessman Zeki Bilmen and his New Jersey-based Giza Technologies, were first reported by WMR on August 1.
Another company that has reportedly been making entrees to the ATC-AIPAC influence peddling consortium is the Ashcroft Group, a firm set up in May 2005 by former Attorney General John Ashcroft to help countries with law enforcement and counter-terrorism. Ashcroft's partner in the Ashcroft Group is Juleanna Glover Weiss, who worked for Ashcroft, Steve Forbes, Rudolph Giuliani, and Vice President Dick Cheney. As one intelligence insider put the AIPAC-ATC links, "these have nothing to do with religion or politics, just pure greed." | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 6:23 pm Post subject: |
| One can listen to JINSA/CSP/PNAC (Israel first) Neocon Richard Perle lying to Congressman Walter ('Freedom Fries') Jones about the 'A Clean Break'/war for Israel agenda that esteemed US intelligence author James Bamford discusses on pages 261-269/321 of his 'A Pretext for War' book:
http://gorillaintheroom.blogspot.com/2005/04/operating-off-different-agenda.html | | | | Alpha | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
