- In 1987, Jonathan Pollard, U.S. Navy intelligence analyst,
was imprisoned for life for selling a roomful of U.S. secret documents
to Israel. Tel Aviv refused to return them. At the Clinton-Netanyahu summit
at Wye River, Pollard became a subject of contention.
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- "Bibi" Netanyahu wanted to fly the American
traitor back to Israel where he is a hero. Clinton balked. CIA's George
Tenet would resign, Clinton told Netanyahu, if he pardoned Pollard.
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- This history is recalled for a reason. Washington today
is rife with reports the FBI has been investigating whether or not a nest
of Pollardites inside the Pentagon has been funneling secrets, through
the Israeli lobby AIPAC, to the Reno Road embassy and on to Sharon.
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- Suspected mole Larry Franklin, a Pentagon Iranian analyst,
was reportedly sighted trying to hand over to an AIPAC official a draft
copy of a National Security Presidential Directive on Iran. With the mullahs
apparently pursuing atomic bombs, Israel wants the United States to attack,
denuclearize and bring down its No. 1 enemy, the regime in Tehran.
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- Franklin popped up on FBI radar when he joined a breakfast
meeting between an AIPAC man and an Israeli diplomat. AIPAC had been under
FBI surveillance for over two years as a probable conduit to Israel of
the fruits of espionage against the United States.
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- Franklin, a devout Catholic and hawk on Iran, is now
said to be cooperating with the FBI. His boss, William Luti, is the deputy
to the Pentagon's No. 3, Douglas Feith, who has close ties to Likud.
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- According to The Washington Post, the FBI is now interviewing
present and ex-officials from Cheney's office and the Pentagon as to whether
Feith, Richard Perle, David Wurmser and Paul Wolfowitz might have leaked
U.S. security secrets to Israel, AIPAC or Ahmed Chalabi.
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- Chalabi, once the Pentagon's candidate to succeed Saddam,
has lately fallen from favor. Reportedly, he was caught telling Iran's
intelligence station chief in Baghdad that friends in the Pentagon informed
him they had broken Iran's code and were listening in on Iran's secret
communications between Baghdad and Tehran.
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- AIPAC and the Israelis deny any spying. Cooperation between
the Bush and Sharon governments is so close, they insist, there is no need
to commit espionage or thieve U.S. documents. Perhaps, but the men about
whom the FBI is inquiring have old, deep and questionable ties to Israel
and the Likud Party of Ariel Sharon.
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- In 1970, Perle was picked up on an FBI wiretap discussing
NSC secrets with the Israeli embassy. In 1981, as assistant secretary of
defense, Perle got a top-secret security clearance for his chosen deputy
Stephen Bryen, who is said to have narrowly eluded indictment for offering
top-secret documents to Mossad's man in Washington.
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- In 1982, Feith was the object of an inquiry as to whether
he had given secret documents to the Israeli embassy. Fired from the NSC,
he was hired by Perle. Feith left the Pentagon in 1986 to form a law firm
- in Israel. Hired by Rumsfeld in 2001, Feith set up the Office of Special
Plans, which cherry-picked the intelligence to the White House that turned
out to be false, but facilitated the war on Iraq.
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- In 1996, Perle, Feith and Wurmser co-authored a paper
for Netanyahu calling for ditching Oslo, reoccupying the West Bank and
overthrowing Saddam as "an important Israeli strategic objective."
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- In 1998, Wolfowitz and Perle signed an open letter from
the neoconservative front group PNAC to Clinton, urging him to ditch diplomacy
and wage war on Iraq, and pledging their full support.
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- On Jan. 1, 2001, eight months before 9/11, Wurmser, at
AEI, called for joint U.S.-Israeli air strikes on Iraq, Iran, Syria and
Libya.
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- According to White House anti-terror chief Richard Clarke,
Wolfowitz, in April 2001, wanted Osama put on a back burner and for us
to go after Iraq. In the first hours after 9/11, according to Bob Woodward
and Clarke, Wolfowitz wanted Iraq invaded, not Afghanistan. For his role
in steering us into war, Wolfowitz was named Man of the Year - by the Jerusalem
Post.
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- In my new book, Where the Right Went Wrong, there is
a line that now appears prophetic: "America needs a Middle East policy
made in the USA, not in Tel Aviv, or at AIPAC or AEI."
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- Having promised him a cakewalk to Baghdad and a rose
garden thereafter, neoconservatives misled President Bush. He should have
fired the lot of them. Having failed to do so, he ought now, in his own
interests, as well as our nation's, name Patrick "Bulldog" Fitzgerald,
now heading up the investigation into the Valerie Plame leak, to head up
the investigation of Israeli espionage, and possible treason, against the
United States.
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- If there has been a recurrence of Pollardism at the Pentagon,
we need to know and the president needs to act, as Truman did not with
Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White.
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