LOL! Wait, I will have to go out and find the other stories, apparently someone is breaking into the office where Carville works. Can you say, "Third rate burglary?" But this one seems to be a real story. Maybe there is a connection?
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"Burglars for the second time in a week broke into the Capitol Hill office of a polling firm working for Israeli Labor Party leader Ehud Barak, stealing what sources said was sensitive material related to his election campaign and aggravating an already tense political situation in Israel.
The break-in at Greenberg Quinlan Research Inc., 515 Second St. NE, occurred sometime after 4 p.m. Monday, police said. The thieves got in through a second-story window and immediately disabled a "new and improved" security system installed after last week's burglary, according to D.C. police and an official at the firm.
"Our work on the Israeli election campaign is being targeted here," said Jeremy Rosner, the polling firm's vice president. "This is unprecedented."
Advisers to Barak, the leading challenger to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the May 17 Israeli elections, were initially suspicious yet reluctant to assign blame for the first break-in. But any reticence disappeared after news of the second burglary.
"We hereby declare the demise of the coincidence theory," said Alon Pinkas, a Barak campaign adviser. "Enter the deliberate anti-Barak theory. Without naming names and pointing fingers, it's the Committee to Re-Elect Netanyahu. Whether or not he knows about it, I have no idea."
Pinkas emphasized, however, that "the police haven't found a visible connection."
Still, an American familiar with both campaign thefts said the incidents made him wonder "to what lengths Barak's opponents will go. . . . Even Watergate wasn't broken into twice."
[Burglars hired by President Richard M. Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President did in fact break into Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate twice in 1972, but the first break-in was undetected. They were trying to replace malfunctioning eavesdropping devices when they were caught.]
An employee of Greenberg Quinlan discovered the break-in at 6:45 a.m. yesterday when she arrived at work, said Sgt. Joe Gentile, a police spokesman. An upgraded security alarm, installed after the Jan. 11 burglary, was disabled, and the intruders went directly to files of the Barak campaign. According to sources, they took questionnaires, surveys and strategies detailing how Barak will shape his challenge to Netanyahu.
During last week's break-in, burglars took a laptop computer containing sensitive information on its hard drive, a Barak campaign file and petty cash, police said. They entered the office near Union Station by tearing open a skylight, disarming a security alarm and opening a door.
Barak is a much-decorated retired army general who is considered to have the best chance of beating Netanyahu in the election.
Rosner declined to say what was taken in the second burglary. He said that Barak had been notified and that the polling firm will continue to do work on the campaign.
The latest break-in has unnerved many Israeli political officials.
Barak's closest associates in Israel have been the targets of earlier break-ins. In the last four months, his aides say, the homes of at least six Barak staff members and advisers have been burglarized. In each case, nothing was stolen, aides say, but the intruders left ostentatious traces of tampering.
"The common denominator is to intimidate," Pinkas said.
Among those whose homes were entered were Tal Zilberstein, Barak's campaign manager, and Doron Cohen, the candidate's brother-in-law and closest confidant. Several of the aides did not initially tell Israeli police about the break-ins. But the burglary at the polling firm last week triggered the reports.
Israeli police brushed off the earlier break-ins, suggesting there was little they could do about burglaries committed, in some cases, several months ago.
Netanyahu, who also has an American political adviser, Republican consultant Arthur Finkelstein, has not commented on the burglaries in Washington or Israel or on whether his supporters might be responsible.
But a spokesman for Netanyahu last week called the break-ins a "canard" and said that anyone blaming the prime minister or his conservative Likud Party could be subject to legal action.
After getting the report about the second break-in, D.C. police dispatched three mobile crime scene vans to dust the offices for fingerprints, take photographs and remove items that might contain evidence, Gentile said. Four evidence technicians and several supervisors spent seven hours at the crime scene.
Among the items the evidence technicians removed was a piece of wood from a second-story windowsill, which police said was the point of entry.
An FBI agent trained in evidence collection and analysis also helped the technicians check the firm's office, FBI spokeswoman Susan Lloyd said. Gentile said D.C. police asked for FBI assistance after the first burglary.
Officials at the firm and others said the thieves' ability to disarm a high-tech security system and make off with specific files shows that the burglars are not novices.
"It's a very sophisticated effort," Rosner said. "We'll just keep stepping up what we're doing to protect ourselves and our clients."
Stanley Greenberg, a partner in the polling firm, was only recently hired by Barak to help with his campaign. James Carville, President Clinton's former campaign manager, also is working on the Barak campaign."
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