| Author | Message | | Alpha | | Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject: Pentagon investigation of Iraq war hawk stalling Senate inqu |
| Just saw following at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/01/30/al-qaeda-number-two-calls_n_14743.html?p=3#comments
RED ALERT - FOR WIDE DISTRIBUTION !!!
Pentagon investigation of Iraq war hawk stalling Senate inquiry into pre-war Iraq intelligence
Excerpts:
As previously reported by Raw Story, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) inquiry -- titled Phase II -- is waiting on a report from the Pentagon inspector general as to Feith's alleged role in manipulating pre-war intelligence to support a case for war. Feith, who is also being probed by the FBI for his role in an Israeli spy case, resigned in January 2005.
More broadly, a RAW STORY investigation has found that Feith's access to classified information and his alleged wrongdoing can likely be laid at the feet of more senior officials in the Bush Administration -- namely Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- who would have had to have overruled Pentagon background checks to reissue Feith's clearances after he was booted from the National Security Council for allegations of espionage in the mid 1980s.
Feith is out of the country and could not be reached for comment.
This lack of oversight has caused great concern among many former military and intelligence sources. One former intelligence source point to "a bigger can of worms" that a Feith investigation may unravel, pointing to the Israeli spy case -- in which Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin passed classified information to a pro-Israeli lobby -- and to the Defense Department's own inability to address security breaches.
The Franklin leak is hardly an isolated incident.
In 1978, the current head of the World Bank and former Deputy Defense Secretary Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was investigated for passing classified information through AIPAC, the same organization that Franklin is charged with passing state secrets to.
Wolfowitz, who at the time was working for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), was himself brought in by yet another high level alleged leaker, Richard Perle. Perle, too, is being investigated in the current AIPAC case.
Perle, who most recently served as chairman of the Pentagon Defense Policy Board and quietly resigned after the AIPAC case broke, was alleged to have passed on highly classified information to the Israeli embassy when he was a foreign policy aide for Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson in 1970.
Perle was instrumental in bringing Feith into several positions, starting in the early 80s. By the mid-1980s Feith was relieved of his clearances for allegations of passing secrets to AIPAC, bringing the question of clearances full circle.
Rumsfeld seen to reinstate clearances
Despite their checkered past, Rumsfeld's Pentagon reissued clearances to Feith, Perle and Wolfowitz. Clearances were also issued to several of Feith's consultants, some of whom were major players in the Iran Contra scandal.
The Iran Contra scandal implicated then-President Reagan, Vice President George H. W. Bush, and nearly the entire senior level of the administration in a weapons trafficking operation in which the US sold arms to its avowed enemy Iran. The money was then funneled to the Contras in Nicaragua, a group of anti-communists fighting the then seated regime of the Socialist Sandinistas, in order to subsidize a grassroots uprising. Feith's team of consultants included such Iran Contra luminaries as Michael Ledeen and his go-to Iran arms merchant, Manucher Gorbanifar.
One former intelligence source said only an official of Rumsfeld's seniority could reissue clearances after they had been revoked.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Pentagon_investigation_stalls_Phase_II_of_0130.html
SAY WHAT?
Feith is under investigation for his role in the AIPAC Spy Scandal as well?
Where is that story?
Feith is "out of the country?"
Where is he...Israel?
Is he planning to return?
What further digging will ultimately reveal is that Israel was in actuality calling the shots on behalf of the Department of Defense through their Agents on the inside.
Can you say TREASON?
Posted by: plunger on January 30, 2006 at 03:31pm
Thank you very much for the above post, Plunger.. It will be added to the following URL as well (esteemed intelligence author James Bamford includes mention of this AIPAC/Israel/Larry Franklin case beginning on page 403 of the paperback version of his 'A Pretext for War' which was released last year):
AIPAC Treason against America
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8491
Ex-Pentagon man gets 12 years in AIPAC case:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2006/01/20/ex-pentagon-man-gets-12-years-in-aipac-case.php
The Wolfowitz/Feith connection to the AIPAC/Israel espionage via the Pentagon was mentioned during the AIPAC/Israel/Franklin case segment with the Jerusalem Post bureau chief this past Friday on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' which can be watched by clicking on the Nathan Guttman link at the following URL (do a search for his name there if the link no longer shows up there) as the 'Serving Two Flags' article ( http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/nc-green.html ) and www.whatreallyhappened URL were mentioned as well:
http://www.c-span.org/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=Series,WJE&ArchiveDays=30
Nathan Guttman, Washington Bureau Chief, Jerusalem Post
Nathan Guttman, Washington Bureau Chief of the Jerusalem Post, discusses the state of the Middle East peace process.
45 min.
Ardent Zionist (Israel firster) JINSA Zionist Israel firster Jew Michael Ledeen (mentioned via the following three article/URLs) was an admirer of the Italian fascists as fellow JINSA Israel firsters Richard Perle and Douglas Feith are mentioned in the following articles as well:
http://www.robert-fisk.com/articles114.htm
Fisk made reference to the following 'Men from JINSA and CSP' article (which appeared in the 'The Nation') in the above article:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020902&s=vest
Treason at high level: Pentagon Zionists, AIPAC and Israel:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2004/09/08/treason-in-high-places-pentagon-zionists-aipac-and-israel.php
Neoconservatives Here to Stay:
http://gorillaintheroom.blogspot.com/2005/05/karen-kwiatkowski-interview.html
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2006/01/27/neoconservatives-here-to-stay-by-karen-kwiatkowski.php
http://gorillaintheroom.blogspot.com/2005/04/operating-off-different-agenda.html
JINSA Israel firsters: IRAQ DOWN, IRAN LEFT TO GO:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2005/04/06/jinsa-israel-firsters-iraq-down-iran-left-to-go.php
Bush: US would defend Israel against Iran:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2006/02/02/bush-us-would-defend-israel-against-iran.php
Last edited by Alpha on Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:31 pm; edited 6 times in total | |  | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:50 am Post subject: The AIPAC case: Is $1.6 million enough? |
| http://groups.google.com/group/wash.politics/browse_thread/thread/bf64db57390b8a01/7924c66076d7e49b#7924c66076d7e49b
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerBlog.jhtml?itemNo=676155&contrassID=25&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=1&listSrc=Y&art=2#article676155
Posted: January 30, 2006
The AIPAC case: Is $1.6 million enough?
Monday, January 30, 16:25 EST
In the story I filed earlier,
dealing with the case against two
former AIPAC lobbyists Steve Rosen
and Keith Weissman,
a source familiar with the AIPAC
side of the story revealed that
the two rejected an AIPAC offer
of more than $1.6 million.
The source assumed that
"Rosen and Weissman are simply
not interested in the money now -
because it is their intention to
sue after the trial.
A few months ago,
and after consultations
with the defendants' lawyers,
the two were offered a large sum -
$1.625 million,
in addition to the money that the
organization had already spent on
their defense last year.
They rejected the offer."
Now, is this a lot of
money to reject or what?
As always,
it depends on the person
who answers the question.
Some sources close to the defense made
a couple of interesting points this
morning regarding AIPAC's offer.
1.
AIPAC insisted that after
it pays Rosen and Weissman,
it will be absolved of any
responsibility for the
funding of an appeal,
in the event the two are convicted.
(As mentioned in my previous report,
an appeal is imminent in such case).
The AIPAC bylaws,
the source reminded me,
refer to
"final judicial determination."
2.
AIPAC's offer might sound like
a lot to people who are not
familiar with the costs of
legal defense today.
But it was, in fact,
only about a third of the
eal cost just at the trial
level.
The defense for Rosen and Weissman
estimates total legal costs of $4
million.
AIPAC's offer does not even cover
the arrearages already accumulated
($1.2 million for Rosen and about
$800,000 for Weissman).
3.
AIPAC's offer provides nothing
for costs beyond fees paid to
law firms.
For example:
experts on classified information,
jury consultants, etc. These,
the source said,
"are vital in a modern defense."
4.
AIPAC fired the defendants after
they had worked for the organization
for many years.
(Rosen worked for AIPAC for a
quarter century during which
"he received only the highest
praise year after year."
He is 63 with three children,
the youngest of which is seven).
They took from Rosen
and Weissman salaries,
health insurance,
and pensions - everything they had.
The two can't even think about
finding a new job as long as
the trial goes on.
5.
AIPAC's offer should also be
seen in light of its own revenues
which have tripled in the past
five years.
The real cost of the defense will
be about three percent of its
revenues since August 2004,
(when the defendants troubles began),
"and that is what AIPAC should and can pay,"
the source suggested.
6. Since August 2004,
AIPAC will have raised
(by this summer) over $120 million
in hard and soft donations excluding
the capital fund for its new building
and its endowment fund.
"Permit me also to point out,"
said the source,
"that AIPAC's special appeal
for this case in September 2004
raised $4 million over the expected
donation level,
according to its own chief fundraiser,
not to mention extra donations that
came in at later dates."
AIPAC's offer, the source states,
"means it would make a profit on this case."
To be continued... | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject: A high-risk game of nuclear chicken |
| A high-risk game of nuclear chicken
http://www.sibernews.com/the-news/world-news/a-high%11risk-game-of-nuclear-chicken-200601313615/
Kenneth Timmerman, told Israeli radio in mid-January that he expected an Israeli preemptive strike on Iran "within the next 60 days", ie just after Israeli elections or just before.
Timmerman is close to Richard Perle, the indicted Cheney chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Douglas Feith and Michael Ledeen.
The question is whether ordinary Israelis are war weary, whether with Palestine or with Iran, and seek a compromise solution. Polls seem to indicate so. However, the very strong showing of Hamas in the January 25 Palestine elections could change the Israeli mood. The day after their vote success, Hamas leader Mahmud al-Zahhar claimed that his movement would not change its covenant calling for the destruction of Israel, reported the Israeli online news portal Ynet.
Last week, a new element appeared in the chemistry of the long-standing Israeli Likud-US Congress influence nexus. Larry A Franklin, a former Pentagon Iran analyst and close friend of leading Pentagon neo-conservatives, was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in jail for sharing classified Pentagon information with pro-Israel lobbyists through an influential Washington-based lobby organization, AIPAC, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee.
AIPAC has been at the heart of ties between the Israeli right-wing Likud and members of the US Congress for years. It is regarded as so powerful that it is able to decide which Congressmen are elected or re-elected. Previously it had been considered "untouchable". That is no longer true it seems.
Franklin pleaded guilty last October to sharing the information with AIPAC lobbyists and Israeli diplomat, Naor Gilon. Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, who were fired from AIPAC in 2004 in the affair, are facing charges of disclosing confidential information to Israel, apparently about Iran. The sentencing is causing major shock waves throughout leading US Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith. The conviction has hit a vital lobbying tool of AIPAC and other pro-Israel lobby groups, namely, expenses-paid trips for US Congressmen to Israel. Hundreds of politicians are taken to Israel every year by non-profit affiliates of groups such as AIPAC and the American Jewish Committee - trips Jewish leaders say are a vital tool in pro-Israel lobbying.
The Bush administration had tried to bury the Franklin case, unsuccessfully. It could only delay the trial until after the November 2004 US elections. The Franklin scandal as well as the Abramoff lobbying affair have both hit severe blows to the suspicious money network between Likud and the White House, potentially fatally weakening the Israeli hawk faction of Netanyahu. | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
