Posted on 03/24/2015 3:13:45 AM PDT by tired&retired
Yet another Obama administration thrust in its campaign to stigmatize Binyamin Netanyahu and the newly elected Israeli government came Tuesday, March 24, in the form of a pejorative leak to The Wall Street Journal.
"Israeli intelligence was eavesdropping on closed-door nuclear negotiations between Iran and the US and other world powers, then passing the classified information along to the US Congress to try and preemptively scuttle the deal, The WSJ reported, adding from its unnamed sources: "It’s one thing for the US and Israel to spy on each other. It is another thing for Israel to steal US secrets and play them back to US legislators to undermine US diplomacy.”
The WSJ story raises three points:
1. The Obama administration repeatedly promised to keep Israel informed on the content of the Six Power negotiations with Iran led by the United States and make them “transparent.” The WSJ story demonstrates that Washington violated this commitment, by revealing that Israel needed to activate its spies to get at the facts. It is also possible alternatively that the data from the closed door sessions was leaked to Israel by other participants such as Russia, France, Germany or the UK, who too were aghast at the extent of American concessions to Iran for a deal.
2. Did the Obama administration seriously expect Israel to sit back and wait calmly for its diplomats to make concession after concession to the Iranians, knowing that Iran was being allowed to come closer step by step to a nuclear threshold state to the peril of Israel, its Gulf neighbors and Middle East security at large?
3. Why did Israel need to snoop on the talks when Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, all of which strongly oppose the deal taking shape, believed they should have been partners to talks that determined their fate, alongside the six external world powers? If Iran objected, the Middle East nations most concerned might have been given a role on the sidelines, instead of being left out of decision-making in the way that the old Colonial powers determined the boundaries of the region among themselves.
Well it certainly the right ring to it, keeping secrets from Congress! They represent the people so that’s about right. I would expect nothing else from Obama.
In the vein of Senator Cruz' theme yesterday I say this:
Imagine if the US was using @clintonemail.com for their negotiations.
America is being led by a petulant, immature, marxist moslem. America's enemies are emboldened and on the march. America's allies are being treated like annoyances at best and like enemies at worst. This even includes the long term strategic natural allies in the rest of the Anglosphere.
Maybe the White Mosque should be more transparent....
Fox cable news is reporting the same story stating that the WSJ is their source.
And a true one: Israel Spied on Iran Nuclear Talks With U.S.
We spy on them. They spy on us. Where's the news?
Isn’t it a sad day, when our Congress can only receive information regarding surreptitious activity of our Executive Branch, via “over the transom” tidbits fed to them by the intel of a dependable ally nation?
“POSOTUS” is an understatement!
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Now with them it's all Netanyahu's fault.
The TRUTH is ...
It's all Obama's fault.
Congress needs to go nuclear on the traitor-in-chief and his Iranian-born Rasputin. No attack is too “extreme”.
Imho, I think you’re underestimating obama. He is very intelligent and knows exactly what he’s doing. His narcissistic behavior combined with belief in communism makes him very dangerous. It’s also why he was chosen.
This whole US-Israeli or 0bama-Israeli thing is truly a sordid episode. To think that the rest of the world isn’t keenly aware of it is really delusional. While Israels’ enemies are salivating over the superficial pressure and vitriol being flung at Israel, they have to be equally amused at the sheer fecklessness of our CIC and his cabal of sycophants. It’s simply embarrassing that this country is being run by an amateur going through a teenage tantrum. Remarkable.
The talks have no business existing without congressional oversight anyway, so if true it is yet another example of childishness and maliciousness by flopeared Obama.
Maybe the Israeli’s tied into Hillary’s home computer?
Sounds like the White Mosque and the enabling, docile,
useless, selfserving EXEMPT 114th Congress, again.
The cryptoMoslem Tyrant is who he is
because the EXEMPT Congress
led by EXEMPT McConnell the cryptoDemocrat
and EXEMPT Boehner the cryptoDemocrat
back his every pen-stroke.
I will add lawless, and lazy. He was smart enough to get elected president, twice.
so what did the scumbag obama have to hide... his Lies?
IMPEACH OBAMA before we get involved in WWIII
he is supporting ISIS via Qatar ($5 billion and 5 top al queda released to qatar), Benghazi was all about secret arms shipped to ISIS via Turkey and east europe...
Would it make sense to send weapons to Japan prior to WWII if they said “as soon as we can we will attack America”...
We sold them the NYC second ave elevated steel scrap and they fired it back at us ONE BULLET/BOMB AT A TIME...
obama wants iran to have a nuke and they ahve promised to use it on the ussa and israel.. israel has over 100 nukes and they will strike first...
obama is ONE OF THEM...THE ENEMY GET RID OF THIS POS...
“I will add lawless, and lazy. He was smart enough to get elected president, twice.”
I don’t think that was him. If someone asked me how Obama got elected I would cite that the 1960 Marxist radicals finally had the opening to take over government and they needed a front man and Obama was it.
The only reason they chose Obama is Jackson and Sharpton were just too dumb and Farrakhan went rogue.
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