Posted on 12/20/2001 9:50:36 PM PST by H.R. Gross
December 21, 2001
You really have to hand it to the Israelis: they are nothing if not blatant. Their response to Fox News reporter Carl Cameron's devastating exposé of Israel's massive spy operation in the US can hardly be repeated with a straight face. Mark Regev, a spokesman at the Israeli embassy in Washington is quoted by the Jerusalem Post as saying:
"The report on Fox News contains no quoted source, it has in no way demonstrated anything more than anonymous innuendo, and should be regarded accordingly. Israel does not spy on the United States of America."
Gee, Mark, does the name Jonathan Pollard ring a bell?
Naturally, the law enforcement sources who utilized Cameron's investigation to voice their concerns didn't dare allow their names to be used: as Cameron related in his report, any question regarding the possibility of Israeli spying in the US is "career suicide" for those who dare raise it. Question: is it also career suicide for journalists to raise it?
I have seen a few news items reporting on the Cameron exposé, but, given the implications and scope of what we're talking about here, the answer is, apparently, yes. For Cameron and Fox News are not merely saying that the Israelis have been conducting a "sprawling" spy operation in the US, involving the massive penetration of our communications systems and government agencies. As Cameron so diplomatically put it in the first segment of his four-part investigation:
"There is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9-11 attacks, but investigators suspect that the Israelis may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it."
In other words: Israel's passive complicity made the worst terrorist attack in American history possible. One would think that the sheer enormity of such a charge would provoke a storm of outrage from Israel's many defenders in the media: the columnists, the think-tankers, the publicists who dote on Ariel Sharon's every word. But, no: instead, there is an ominous, one might almost say a guilty silence.
It's frightening, really, when you think about it. Here, after all, is a reporter's dream: a heretofore-undiscovered angle on the biggest story of our time. Yet no one will touch it. Why? It couldn't be because you'd need an army of researchers: you don't. All that's necessary is internet access, and, of course, the miracle of Google: anyone can go to google.com and type in the appropriate words and phrases, such as "Israelis detained," or, better yet, "Israeli art students" along with the word "detained." Go ahead: do it, and see what happens….
Okay, so you did it and came up with a whole slew of news stories, published mostly in local newspapers, telling different variations on a single, very bizarre story: In locations as diverse as Dallas, Saint Louis, Kansas, Atlanta, New York, and Findley, Ohio, groups of young people describing themselves as Israeli art students suddenly descended on federal office buildings and no less than 36 Department of Defense facilities. They seemed particularly active in the state of Texas: in Dallas, one "student" was found wandering the halls of a federal facility with a floor plan in his hands. Say, what?
Starting in the third week of January, reports began to pour in to the National Counterintelligence Center (NCC) about "suspicious visitors to federal facilities." The NCC's bimonthly report for March 2001 states:
"In the past six weeks, employees in federal office buildings located throughout the United States have reported suspicious activities connected with individuals representing themselves as foreign students selling or delivering artwork. Employees have observed both males and females attempting to bypass facility security and enter federal buildings."
Remember Monica Lewinsky? Remember how she and the misbegotten hedge git from Arkansas that was our president had "phone sex" as well as the other kind? Remember the reports that the F.B.I. was scared of Mossad agents listening in to "get some leverage" on Clinton?
I know it was laughed off at the time, but a query: Was Monica "sent" [without her knowledge] to get next to Clinton to compromise him?
Whaddya think people?
Regards,
This, however, quoted from Carl Cameron's report, is a little off the mark:
"...investigators suspect that the Israelis may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it."
Actually both our government and the Israelis have acknowledged that Mossad did give our government forewarning. Our government says the info wasn't sufficiently specific to allow them to act upon it, and the Israelis haven't yet disputed that. If people like Justin put enough heat on the Israelis over this, they just might spill the beans to cover their own butts if there actually was more specificity than either has admitted.
Wouldn't that be interesting?
This man, and his friends, supports Israel and thinks the American/Israel relationship is solid and eternal.
Hard choice who to believe.
The President has immense national security knowledge.
The guy above- he's sooooooo cool.
The President has a busy day.
Fonzie has nothing to do but post the same garbage every day.
Vote
Nations don't have "friends," they have friendly relations that are subject to changing national interests. And always the "national interests" come first. I'll withold my "vote" until all the facts are in.
It was rejected out of hand, but there is credence to this line of thinking.
I'm amazed. This is one post from antiwar.com that I actually could vibe with.
Strange world we live in, isn't it?
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