Lawmakers question report that Israel shared secrets from Iran talks/LAT

The usual "not as bad" suspects strike again.

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-us-israel-spying-20150324-story.html

House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters he was “baffled” by the report of intelligence-sharing by Israel. “I’m not aware of that all,” he said.
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said he’s discussed the negotiations with Israeli officials but denied he learned anything from them he had not learned elsewhere.

“I think you all understand what’s happening here. You understand who’s pushing this out,” Corker said, implying the Obama administration was seeking to neutralize the Netanyahu-led lobbying campaign against any nuclear agreement.

Key Democrats including Sens. Robert Menendez and Dianne Feinstein, the leading minority party members of the Foreign Relations and Intelligence committees, respectively, also denied the substance of the new spying report. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) downplayed that Israelis have engaged in spying, saying that any nation with a stake in the outcome would do whatever they could to stay abreast of the discussions.

“I obviously have some significant differences of opinion with opinions that Israeli leaders -- especially the prime minister -- have ventured about the deal,” he said. “But their deep existential interest in such a deal, and that they would try to figure out everything they could -- I don’t find any of that that controversial.”