View Single Post
Old March 24th, 2015 #75
littlefieldjohn
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 8,105
Default Israel Spied on Iran Negotiations, Sent Info to GOP

Quote:
Can someone please explain to me how this is not an obvious act of war on the part of Israel and an obvious act of treason on the part of the GOP?

Because I’m just not seeing any other way to read it.


http://rt.com/news/243469-israel-iran-talks-spied/


Israel has been accused of feeding secret information on the Iran 5+1 nuclear talks to senior US lawmakers in an effort to scupper the negotiations, a new report says. The accusation was met with sharp denial in Tel Aviv.

The allegations were revealed in a Wall Street Journal investigation,
http://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-s...lks-1427164201
and come from dozens of interviews with officials past and present, who are familiar with the nuclear discussions.

Israel, for its part, claims that this was not accompanied by any official accusations by the White House. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon rejected the WSJ analysis, saying that “there is no way, and there was no way, that Israel spied on the Americans. That is seriously forbidden among every level of Israel’s policy leaders.” He added that the relationship between the two countries remains intact and that “someone is just trying to stir conflict… It’s a shame that such winds are blowing into the clandestine channels in which we conduct this relationship.”

But according to WSJ’s sources, it came as no surprise to the White House that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was continuing on his mission to derail a much sought-after agreement with Iran, as Tel Aviv remains implacably opposed to a nuclear Tehran, and has in recent past tried to involve the US Congress to impede a diplomatic solution offered by the 5+1 talks.

However, it surprised Washington that Tel Aviv would feed the secret information to US lawmakers to drain support from a deal with Tehran. Washington and Tel Aviv have vastly different notions on how to deal with Tehran and how regional peace is to be secured.

“It is 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,” a top US official close to the situation told WSJ.

Israel’s alleged role in passing on information to US lawmakers emerged after US intelligence was snooping on the Israelis and heard information they claimed could only have come from the closed-door talks.

Tel Aviv denied this, saying that they had acquired the information by different means, such as routine spying on communications with Iran.

“These allegations are utterly false,” Netanyahu’s office told reporters. “The state of Israel does not conduct espionage against the United States or Israel’s other allies. The false allegations are clearly intended to undermine the strong ties between the United States and Israel and the security and intelligence relationship we share.”

WSJ’s sources said that Israel tops the list of close US allies trying to spy on it, and that more US counterintelligence resources are spent on Israel than any other partner.

Netanyahu has been trying to drum up support against the Obama administration’s push for rapprochement with Tehran from within the US government, as well as trying to sway US lawmakers.

The fresh allegations of meddling by Israel could alienate US officials, many of whom are expected to be around after Obama’s term finishes.

Last month, Obama’s cabinet accused Israel of “selective sharing of information” and “cherry-picking” as it publicly voiced its discontent with the ongoing talks. “Not everything you’re hearing from the Israeli government is an accurate depiction of the talks,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

On the same day, The New York Times revealed that Obama had warned his European partners in the 5+1 talks (France, Germany and the UK) not to share too much information with Israel, “because whatever we say may be used in a selective way.”

So the Jews are denying it. Okay. But if it is proved to have taken place, how can we not then consider Israel an enemy of the US, and try and hang all of the Republicans (and probably a fair number of democrats as well) who illegally received these communications and didn’t report it to the CIA or other relevant authorities as traitors?
http://www.dailystormer.com/israel-s...t-info-to-gop/