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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richnorth who wrote (613831)	8/30/2004 10:40:26 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Richnorth, are you like 8 years old or something?

To: Richnorth who wrote (613831)	8/30/2004 10:54:15 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Israeli Held Meetings with US Analyst (Is the Bush White House run by Israeli operatives?) Israeli Held Meetings With U.S. Analyst By KARIN LAUB JERUSALEM (AP) - A senior Israeli diplomat in Washington has met with a Pentagon analyst being investigated by the FBI on suspicion he passed classified information to Israel, Israeli officials confirmed Monday. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the meetings were well within the norm of diplomacy and that no laws were broken. Israel has flatly denied it has a spy at the Pentagon. The Israeli diplomat was identified as Naor Gilon, head of the political department at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, and a specialist on Iran's nuclear weapons program. U.S. officials say the FBI investigation focuses on Lawrence A. Franklin, an analyst of Iranian affairs who works in a Pentagon policy office headed by Douglas J. Feith, the undersecretary for policy. Feith has been accused by Democrats of seeking to manipulate intelligence to help make the case for going to war in Iraq. Congressional investigations have found no evidence of that. Newsweek magazine reported in this week's edition that more than a year ago, the FBI was monitoring a meeting between an Israeli Embassy official and a representative of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the main Israeli lobbying group in Washington. Newsweek did not identify the Israel diplomat, but Israeli media said it apparently was Gilon. Israeli officials said Gilon has met repeatedly with Franklin. Israel's Foreign Ministry declined comment. The Israeli ambassador to the United States, Danny Ayalon, told Maariv that Gilon went by the book, and that ``nothing was done under the table.'' The New York Times reported on its Monday edition that government officials say Franklin had been cooperating with federal agents for several weeks and was preparing to lead them to contacts inside the Israeli government when work of the investigation, first reported by CBS News, was leaked late last week. Efforts to reach Franklin by telephone have been unsuccessful. On Sunday, Israeli Cabinet minister Natan Sharansky said he believed the allegations might stem from an internal conflict between the Pentagon and the CIA. ``I hope it's all a mistake or misunderstanding of some kind, maybe a rivalry between different bodies,'' Sharansky told Canadian Broadcasting Corp., singling out ``the Pentagon and the CIA.'' American officials said the FBI has spent more than a year investigating whether a Pentagon analyst funneled classified material to Israel. The material described White House policy toward Iran. Israel says Iran - and its nuclear ambitions - pose the greatest single threat to the Jewish state. Sharansky said the ban on espionage in the United States dates to the scandal over Jonathan Pollard, an American Jew caught spying for Israel in 1985. ``There are absolutely no attempts to involve any member of the Jewish community and any general American citizens to spy for Israel against the United States,'' he said. ****** It looks to me that the Bush/Cheney will try and pin their going to war on Wolfowitz making a case for going to war. The war has gone badly, and all indications are this war in Iraq is unwinnable and Bush has made a colossal mistake. Now he's looking for someone to blame, who to make the fall guy so that it will look as if he were led astray? Tenet already fell on his sword, now it looks as if the next scapegoat will be those pro-Israelis working in the Pentagon, passing secrets etc.