| Author | Message | | Alpha | | Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:52 am Post subject: IRmep - AIPAC Espionage Case Dismissal Gambit Fails |
| The judge's last name (Ellis) sounds Jewish as well:
From: "Jeffrey Blankfort"
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:25:22 -0800
Subject: [IntelligentMinds] AIPAC Spies Likely to Walk: Surprise?
http://washtimes. com/upi/20061129-072531-3019r. htm
Analysis: High bar set in AIPAC case
By Shaun Waterman
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
Nov. 30, 2006 at 10:02AM
The government has been set a high bar for conviction in the AIPAC secrets case -- prosecutors must show the two lobbyists charged under espionage laws knew that the disclosure of the material they allegedly passed to reporters and Israeli officials would hurt the United States.
The defendants, Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, lobbyists for the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, are charged with conspiring with Department of Defense intelligence analyst Larry Franklin to leak U.S. secrets in an apparent effort to influence U.S. policy towards Iran.
In a transcript of a recent pre-trial hearing, made available Tuesday, the judge in the case made it clear that prosecutors must prove intention, or what lawyers call "mens rea" -- Latin for "a guilty mind" -- for every element of the conspiracy.
"The Court imposed the requirement that the government prove that the defendant knew the information ... would harm the United States," Judge Thomas Ellis told the Nov. 16 hearing, though prosecutors had asked that this requirement be lifted.
That is important, explains government transparency advocate Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, because it means the defendants, if found guilty, will have been proved to have "the intention of hurting the United States."
"That distinguishes the activities with which they are charged from the routine activities of reporters and advocates," Aftergood told United Press International, "who may made trade in classified information, " but don't so with the intention of harming U.S. security.
He called the bar set by the ruling "a considerable, possibly insurmountable obstacle" to the government.
In a statement announcing the indictment, prosecutors alleged that since at least April 1999, Rosen and Weissman had "use[d] their contacts within the U.S. government ... to gather sensitive U.S. government information, including classified information ... for subsequent unlawful communication, delivery, and transmission to persons not entitled to receive it."
The case has raised the hackles of civil liberties advocates who charge that zealous prosecutors are abusing an over-broad statute designed to punish spies to criminalize the everyday behavior of reporters, lobbyists, and researchers, all of whom occasionally trade in secrets, the stock-in-trade of Washington's back-room policy process.
Jonathan Turley, professor of law at George Washington University, told UPI that the prosecution had "radically expanded the practical scope of national security law." He said it had always been understood that government employees who leaked were in criminal jeopardy, but not the reporters -- or in this case lobbyists -- to whom they were leaking.
He said the case was an effort to "criminalize the act of simply receiving classified information. "
Judge Ellis fueled those fears when told a hearing earlier this year that the law on its face applies to everyone: "academics, lawyers, journalists, professors, whatever."
The Department of Justice routinely declines comment on ongoing cases, but prosecutors have said in court filings that they "recognize that a prosecution under the espionage laws of an actual member of the press ... would raise legitimate and serious issues and would not be undertaken lightly.
Indeed," they conclude, "the fact that there has never been such a prosecution speaks for itself."
Rosen and Weissman's supporters say there is no difference between what they are charged with doing and what reporters and other members of what their lawyers call "the Washington policy community," do every day.
But the reality is more complex, according to former counter-intelligenc e officials who have followed the case.
They make a distinction between reporters -- who seek information about U.S. policy in order to publish it to illuminate public debate -- and the defendants, who are accused of using the information they obtained in a covert effort to influence U.S. foreign policy, including by passing it on to foreign government officials.
"This was a counter-espionage investigation, " said one retired veteran, pointing out that it had been conducted by the counter-intelligenc e unit at the FBI's Washington Field Office.
"They were looking for spies. Those guys don't do leaks," he told UPI earlier this year.
The case was originally expected to come to trial this year, but due to its complexity, the date has been repeatedly deferred, according to Aftergood.
Judge Ellis now says he will reserve time in May and June 2007 for a possible trial.
He also said that a Justice Department investigation into who leaked word of the investigation to CBS News in August 2004 -- a full year before indictments were filed -- is "ongoing."
But defense lawyers said they had been told by "senior officials at CBS News" that no one there had been contacted about the investigation.
Nonetheless, the existence of that probe, and others confirmed by officials, including into the leaks about the existence of the National Security Agency's program of warrantless wiretaps aimed at suspected terrorists, raises concerns.
Critics like Turley accuse the administration of launching a "scorched earth campaign against whistleblowers. "
He said the AIPAC case, the leak probes, and another investigation in which federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had sought to review the phone records of New York Times reporters, were all "part of a mosaic that threatens vital First Amendment institutions, like the press."
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Jewish 'American' AIPAC diplomat with Iraq after Iran/Syria
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2006/11/15/jewish-american-aipac-diplomat-with-iraq-after-iran-syria.php
Subject: IRmep - AIPAC Espionage Case Dismissal Gambit Fails
8/11/2006 AIPAC Espionage Case Dismissal Gambit Fails:
Opinion clears way for Logan Act and FARA Prosecutions
http://irmep.org/rosweiss2.htm and
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/gsmith.php?articleid=9517
Judge Ellis made it clear that lack of prosecutions under
any criminal statute is not a safe harbor or license for
would be criminals, including AIPAC officials.
"that the rarity of prosecution under the statutes does not
indicate that the statutes were not to be enforced as written.
We think in any event, the rarity of use of the statute as a
basis for prosecution is at best a questionable basis for
nullifying the clear language of the statute, and we think
the revision of 1950 and its reenactment of section 793(d)
demonstrate that Congress did not consider such statute
meaningless or intend that the statute and its prohibitions
were to be abandoned."
Judge Ellis may be signaling from the bench to both the DOJ
and grand juries across America a new willingness to try
criminal statutes AIPAC would rather see lying dormant.
The two most relevant are the Logan Act and Foreign Agent
Registration Act (FARA). No person or organization has
ever been successfully prosecuted under the 1798 Logan
Act. Logan Act clauses clearly seek to outlaw the kinds of
core AIPAC lobbying activities achieved by ongoing
communications links and coordinated activities with
a foreign government....
Full Analysis:
http://irmep.org/rosweiss2.htm
or
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/gsmith.php?articleid=9517
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From: "Jeffrey Blankfort"
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:16:33 -0700
Subject: [IntelligentMinds] Judge says "ample cause to believe" AIPAC pair were foreign agents
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16990&intcategoryid=3
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
New ruling in AIPAC case raises
questions about ‘foreign agents’
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (JTA) — A new pretrial ruling in the classified-information case against two former pro-Israel lobbyists raises new questions about what defines a “foreign agent” and whether the government has the right to spy on lobbyists.
Ruling on whether a wiretap order was legal, Judge T.S. Ellis III said there was “ample probable cause to believe” that two former employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee were “agents of a foreign power.” The ruling was handed down last week and declassified Tuesday.
Ellis also said that “collection or transmission of material that is not generally available to the public” qualifies as an activity that could merit wiretapping under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
Ellis, a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., ruled on a motion to suppress the FISA-obtained evidence, filed by lawyers for Steve Rosen, AIPAC’s former foreign policy director, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst.
The defense contended that, as lobbyists, Rosen and Weissman do not qualify as the type of major threats to U.S. security that the system was designed to rout out.
The ruling could have far-reaching implications for how AIPAC functions as a lobby and how lobbyists, journalists, academics and other non-governmental researchers gather information.
If it emerges at their trial that the activities that earned Rosen and Weissman the surveillance act warrant were part of their AIPAC routine, the organization could face renewed efforts by critics to force it to register as a foreign agent.
“This is something that people following this case have always realized is a potential problem,” Neal Sher, a former AIPAC executive director, told JTA.
“People at AIPAC have always been concerned, institutionally,” about the consequences of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, Sher said. “This is pretty serious.”
AIPAC officials refused to comment.
Forcing AIPAC to register under the act, which has notoriously burdensome reporting requirements, would considerably restrict the group’s ability to lobby and maintain its formidable reputation for secrecy.
A foreign agent must provide the U.S. attorney general with “a comprehensive statement of the nature of registrant’s business” that includes “the existing and proposed activity or activities engaged in or to be engaged in by the registrant as agent of a foreign principal for each such foreign principal, including a detailed statement of any such activity which is a political activity.”
Additionally, AIPAC would have to provide detailed accounts of its spending every 60 days. Sher said such requirements would “effectively shut AIPAC down.”
A source close to AIPAC said the organization was not concerned. Ellis’ ruling doesn’t specify what actions merited the surveillance act warrant, but the source said they probably relate strictly to Rosen and Weissman, not to any acts routinely carried out by AIPAC staffers.
The source noted that AIPAC’s critics for years have called for the organization to be registered as an agent of Israel. AIPAC says the policies it promotes are first and foremost in America’s interests.
“The government never once raised the well-traveled foreign agent issue during the entire course of their investigation,” the source said. “The government specifically said the work that AIPAC does on behalf of pro-Israel Americans is perfectly appropriate.”
Prosecutors have emphasized that neither AIPAC nor any of its current employees are under suspicion. Attorneys for Rosen and Weissman refused to comment for this story, and prosecutors did not return calls.
The ruling is the first public acknowledgment that the government turned to a FISA court to track Rosen and Weissman in an effort that culminated in last year’s indictment charging the lobbyists with illegally
receiving information on Iran and terrorism.
Free-speech advocates, already alarmed by the prosecution’s unprecedented use of a 1917 statute that criminalizes the mere receipt of classified information, found new grounds to worry in this ruling.
Steven Aftergood, who heads the Secrecy Project for the Federation of American Scientists, a nuclear watchdog, said he was alarmed by Ellis’ classification of the “collection or transmission of material that is not generally available to the public” as meriting a surveillance act wiretap warrant.
“That could qualify us for a FISA warrant,” Aftergood told JTA. “That’s at the core of a free press. If the press could only report on ‘information generally available to the public,’ there would be no need for a
press.”
Jewish community leaders were cautious about the ruling, noting that pretrial decisions do not accrue the heft of legal precedence until the trial is over and appeals are exhausted.
“It’s a ruling on a specific question,” said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. “He didn’t say they are foreign agents, only that they could be.”
Hoenlein said, however, that he was gratified that the opinion elites, including editorialists and lawmakers, were joining the Jewish community in understanding the far-reaching free-speech implications of the case against Rosen and Weissman.
“We always said we shouldn’t take this case lightly,” he said. “We could recognize the potential and also the mischief others can do with it.”
Separately, Ellis ordered an inquiry into the leak of the FBI investigation two years ago.
Last week, the judge ordered the Department of Justice “to conduct an investigation into the identity of any government employee responsible for the August 2004 disclosure to CBS News of information related to the investigation of the defendants/whether the investigation relied on information collected pursuant to FISA.”
Television cameras were positioned outside AIPAC headquarters ahead of an FBI raid on Aug. 27, 2004. CBS News correctly reported at the time that the case involved wiretaps.
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Leaders Fear Probe Will Force Pro-Israel Lobby To File as ‘Foreign Agent’ Could Fuel Dual Loyalty Talk
By Ori Nir
Forward
WASHINGTON – As the Department of Justice intensifies its investigation of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Jewish communal leaders fear that the goal of the probe is to compel the powerful lobbying organization to register as a “foreign agent” representing the government of another country.
Widely regarded as one of the most influential organizations on Capitol Hill, Aipac is registered with Congress as a lobbying group. Under American law, registering as a foreign agent would require Aipac to provide significantly more detailed information about its aims and activities to the government – thereby robbing the group of a key weapon: the ability to operate behind the scenes.
Such a change would severely weaken the organization’s influence and fuel charges of dual loyalties against Jewish groups, communal observers said.
“I think that from the start, this is what [the investigation] was all about,” said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. “It doesn’t take very much to start an investigation – all it needs is a legitimate complaint by somebody that there is a violation of the law.”
Many in Washington who are hostile to Israel and the Jewish community would love to discredit Aipac, Foxman said. “So I see this as a broad fishnet operation,” he added, “which may possibly result in something relating to foreign agent registry, rather than spying.”
The concerns come just weeks after the FBI raided Aipac’s office and four of the group’s top officials were subpoenaed by a grand jury. For months, the federal probe was believed to center on allegations that Aipac officials might have illegally passed classified documents on to Israel, which they received from a Pentagon employee, Larry Franklin. In recent weeks, media reports have surfaced suggesting that the FBI used Franklin to entrap officials at the pro-Israel lobby.
Aipac officials have vehemently denied any wrongdoing. Now some supporters are suggesting that the real goal of investigators is to clip Aipac’s wings by forcing it to operate under the strict limits applied to agents of foreign governments.
The possibility of having to change its registration is “an issue of concern to Aipac, in terms of the outcome” of the investigation, said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice-chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. “Frankly, if you’re really determined to get someone, you’ll find something.”
Among other things, the shift would undermine Aipac’s standing as the chief grass-roots organization of American Jews who advocate for a strong American-Israel relationship into an entity that represents Israel in America. It also would play into the hands of Aipac’s foes, who for years have charged that the organization’s chief loyalty was to Israel rather than to the United States.
Even if an attempt to force Aipac to register as a foreign agent is unsuccessful, Jewish activists said, a public fight over the issue would damage the pro-Israel lobby and the wider Jewish community.
“This is a real threat. If Aipac eventually has to become a foreign agent, that would mean the end of Aipac as we know it. But even if not, it will be ugly,” said the leader of one major Jewish group, who – like most other communal leaders interviewed for this story – spoke on condition of anonymity.
Several Jewish communal leaders believe that the FBI’s initial investigation into Aipac might have revolved around alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Passed in 1938, the law was originally designed to block Nazi Germany’s propaganda efforts in America. It requires that a “foreign agent” register with the Department of Justice, and submit detailed reports of “any transactions or connections between the foreign government and the U.S. agent, as well as detailed lists of expenditures,” said Kenneth Gross, a Washington lawyer who is considered one of the nation’s experts on the law.
Aipac is registered as a lobbyist with Congress, as required by the Lobbying Disclosure Act. This law requires some disclosure of lobbying activity on Capitol Hill, but not nearly the same level of detail as the rules dealing with foreign agents. More than 20,000 lobbyists are registered with Congress. Fewer than 500 are registered with the Department of Justice as foreign agents.
“Although the enforcement of [the law on foreign agents] has always been spotty,” Gross said, “it is used by the government to closely monitor what foreign governments are doing in Washington. It does get the camel’s nose under the tent.”
American law sets two chief tests for defining an organization or a publicist as an “agent of a foreign principal.” The financial one clearly does not apply to Aipac, which does not receive money from Israel.
The other test has to do with the nature of the relationship between the American advocacy organization and the foreign government in question. According to the law, any person or group that acts “at the order, request, or under the direction or control of a foreign principal” has to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent.
Aipac’s foes have repeatedly called for the lobbying powerhouse to be registered as a foreign agent. In the mid-1970s, a prominent Democratic senator from Arkansas, William Fulbright, led such a campaign. In 1988, former senior CIA official Victor Marchetti filed a complaint with the Department of Justice, alleging that a thorough study he conducted of Aipac’s conduct demonstrated that under the law, the pro-Israel lobby should have been registered as a foreign agent. The complaint was rejected.
Violation of the relevant law is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. But in almost all cases of suspected violations, subjects received an oral or written warning, and in some instances have been hit with relatively small fines.
Although Aipac staffers are known to be exceedingly careful in their dealings with official representatives of Israel, so as not to violate the law, there have been incidents in the past in which Israeli officials gave directions to Aipac to act in one way or another, said former Aipac employees speaking on condition of anonymity.
One Jewish activist closely connected to Aipac said: “We know that the FBI took documents and computer files from Aipac’s offices. We assume that there were phone taps, as well. Maybe years of phone taps. Who knows what evidence they have?”
Legally, it would be difficult for the government to prove that Aipac must register as a foreign agent, experts say. “Lots of ethnic organizations throughout America are representing Americans who support foreign countries or political parties in foreign countries. None of those have in the past been considered foreign agents or required to register as such,” said Tom Susman, a Washington lawyer who chairs the Ethics Committee of the American League of Lobbyists. Aipac, he said, “doesn’t advocate on behalf of the government of Israel, but the nation of Israel.” Also, he pointed out, the law does allow for a certain degree of coordination with a foreign government. Therefore, “a substantial independence [of the lobbying group] is all that’s needed. Not total independence,” Susman said.
Aipac’s lawyer, Nathan Lewin, noted that the organization “has prevailed in prior cases, when attempts were made to make them register as a foreign agent.” According to Lewin, Aipac officials “prevailed on the proposition that they are an agent entirely of American citizens who have a particular interest in improving American-Israeli relations.”
Jewish activists say that even if the likelihood is low that a legal attempt to compel Aipac to register as a foreign agent will be successful, public focus on the issue could be damaging. “Any open debate of this issue could be damaging,” said a Jewish communal leader. “Questions of loyalty will resurface, and this time such questions will have to do with the chief pro-Israel lobby in America.”
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-foreignagent.html
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Jerusalem Post: Mideast analyst Pollack named in AIPAC indictment
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2005/08/31/prominent-mideast-analyst-associated-with-aipac-espionage.php
Treason in high places: 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
Last edited by Alpha on Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:26 pm; edited 5 times in total | |  | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject: Rumsfeld and Israeli spy Larry Franklin reported to be close |
| http://www.waynemadsenreport.com
Aug. 10, 2006 -- Rumsfeld and Israeli spy Larry Franklin reported to have been very close.
Larry Franklin, the Pentagon Office of Special Plans Iran and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst and reserve Air Force Lieutenant Colonel who was temporarily posted at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, served as a virtual personal liaison for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, according to U.S. intelligence sources who have spoken to WMR. Franklin, who pleaded guilty to passing classified information, including CIA Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), to two America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) officials who passed the information to an Israeli embassy Mossad agent, was sentenced to twelve years and seven months in prison and a $10,000 fine in January. The two AIPAC employees, Steven Rosen and Keith Weisman, were indicted for illegally receiving classified information. Franklin and other neo-con cell members -- Harold Rhode and Michael Ledeen -- conducted secret negotiations with the knowledge of Rumsfeld and Pentagon policy chief Douglas Feith -- with the Iranian government through the offices of Iran-Contra co-conspirator Manucher Ghorbanifar. According to U.S. State Department sources, Rhode is also very close to Iranian neo-con ally and Iraqi oil industry majordomo Ahmad Chalabi and that the relationship is said to be more than merely professional.
Although the Pentagon quickly distanced itself from Franklin after his arrest and revelations of the AIPAC-Mossad espionage program, U.S. intelligence sources report that Franklin accompanied Rumsfeld on his May 1, 2003 and February 26, 2004 trips to Kabul, Afghanistan and acted as his personal Pushto and Dari interpreter with Afghan officials. The sources claim that Franklin had a collegial photograph taken of himself with Rumsfeld and Afghan President Hamid Karzai during the Afghan visit. Franklin also speaks Farsi, Urdu, Arabic, and Hebrew. Franklin boasted to his colleagues that he learned the languages from his Pakistani, Afghan, and Iranian colleagues and bosses while working as a tax cab driver in New York City.
Convicted Israeli spy Larry Franklin (l.) and Donald Rumsfeld (r.) reported by U.S. intelligence officers to have been "extremely close."
U.S. intelligence officials also revealed that Franklin repeatedly attempted to recruit other U.S. intelligence personnel to work in a "NOC" or "non official cover program." Later, it was discovered the "NOC" program was not American but Israeli.
The fact that Franklin was so close to Rumsfeld, whose coterie of advisers has been very small and largely non-inclusive of uniformed military personnel, makes Rumsfeld a prime suspect in the AIPAC espionage case and a possible severe national security risk.
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Aug. 10, 2006 -- Another sensitive laptop computer stolen amid hype over missing Egyptian students and alleged threat to bomb 10 Britain to U.S. flights with liquid bombs. Within the last 24 hours, the American public has been subject to government and media hype concerning 11 "missing" Egyptian students who arrived in the United States last month but failed to report for their classes at Montana State University and Britain's arrest of 21 Britons of "south Asian" descent who were arrested for plotting to blow up U.S. bound airplanes from Britain with liquid bombs disguised as toiletries. Later, one Egyptian was arrested in Minneapolis and another two were picked up in New Jersey.
Massive theft of transportation workers' personal data now reported from Florida.
Lost in the hype over the American and British arrests was the theft of yet another laptop computer containing extremely sensitive information on those who work in the air and ground transportation industry in the United States. The Miami, Florida Department of Transportation Inspector General's office reported that on July 27 a laptop containing personal and sensitive information on 133,000 Florida pilots and commercial drivers was stolen from a government computer in Doral, Florida. The names, Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and addresses of Florida pilots and commercial and regular driver's licenses in the Miami-Dade and Tampa Bay regions were stolen. The theft of the computer was not reported to Department of Transportation officials in Washington until July 31.
WMR has been repeatedly reporting that, according to U.S. intelligence sources, the pandemic of personal data thefts are part of a covert Bush administration-sanctioned program to populate the databases of Total Information Awareness system databases.
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Aug. 9, 2006 -- UPDATED 8/10. A U.S. Navy sailor is reportedly under investigation by Navy authorities with spying for Israel and desertion. On July 29/30, WMR reported on the largely forgotten last Israeli spy in the military, Lt. Col. Jeremiah Matysse, an intelligence officer in Texas who deserted to Israel but was returned to the U.S. in 2000.
Navy Fire Control Technician Petty Officer Third Class Ariel J. Weinmann, who served on board the USS Albuquerque (SSN-706), a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine, was detained by federal authorities at Dallas-Fort Worth airport after returning from Mexico City and while en route to Vancouver, British Columbia. Weinmann was listed as a deserter in July 2005. He is now being held in the Norfolk Naval Station brig under maximum security. Navy authorities have been reluctant to release the name of the country involved in the espionage case. The Middle East newspaper Al Watan, is reporting that the country in question is Israel. The Jerusalem Post is referring to the Al Watan story in today's edition. The Norfolk media is suggesting a Russian connection to the case. However, as noted in this editor's book, "Jaded Tasks," there are strong connections between Israeli intelligence and the global Russian-Ukrainian Mafia.
Reported Israeli spy aboard USS Albuquerque (SSN-706) being held in brig in Norfolk. May have passed classified Tomahawk cruise missile information to Israel prior to military attack on Iran.
Weinmann allegedly met his intelligence handlers and passed them classified information in three locations: Manama, Bahrain; Vienna, Austria; and Mexico City. Because of his rating, Weinmann would have had access to classified information on the Tomahawk cruise missile system. The Albuquerque is also capable of conducting signals intelligence operations and covertly inserting U.S. Navy commandos into coastal areas.
Weinmann enlisted in the Navy in July 2003. The classified data was contained on a Navy laptop computer that Weinmann took with him when he deserted. It is possible that the computer contained an encryption chip that permitted Weinmann and his handlers to continue to access classified Navy information online. The laptop computer was not returned and Weinmann was charged with theft and destruction of government property because Weinmann allegedly smashed the computer's hard drive with a sledgehammer while he was in Vienna.
U.S. intelligence sources suspect Navy is covering up Ariel J. Weinmann's Israeli espionage connections. Claim if Russia was involved, that information would have been released when suspect was first arrested in March.
Israel's intelligence interest in the Tomahawk is significant. Currently, the Israeli Navy has three German-built Dolphin class diesel electric submarines that are Popeye Turbo cruise missile capable. Israel's submarine deployment strategy is to keep one submarine on standby in Haifa (now likely deployed due to Hezbollah rocket attacks), one in the Red Sea and supported out of an Israeli support base in the Dahlak Archipelago in Eritrea, and one in the Persian Gulf that is on standby for an attack on Iran. | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject: |
| AIPAC deserves everything that it gets - listen/read/watch the following segment:
Friday, August 18th, 2006
"There Are No Hereditary Kings in America" - Judge Rules NSA Warrantless Spy Program Unconstitutional
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/18/1352240 | | | | Alpha | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
