Report: Mossad Undercuts Netanyahu, Warns US Congress Against More Iran Sanctions
Source: Jerusalem Post
Israels political leadership is in disagreement with top members of its intelligence services over the benefit of more Congressional sanctions on Iran as negotiations over its disputed nuclear program continue, Bloomberg News is reporting on Thursday.
The rift is so severe that it compelled the Mossad to contradict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and directly warn US Congressional officials that more sanctions against the Islamic Republic at this juncture could effectively spell the end of negotiations, according to Bloomberg.
Israeli intelligence officials have apparently come around to the same view shared by both the Obama administration as well as American spy agencies who say that any attempts by lawmakers to pass tougher anti-Iran legislation could chase Tehran from the negotiating table.
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Congressional leaders, however, were surprised to learn that Mossad officials had briefed a number of key lawmakers, lobbying against the bill. Bloomberg reported that the briefing prompted Menendez to seek clarifications from Israel's envoy to Washington, Ron Dermer.
Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Report-Mossad-undercuts-Netanyahu-warns-US-Congress-against-more-Iran-sanctions-388535
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Scenario. Mossad bitching in public? To US senators? In the US?
underpants
(182,881 posts)mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)groundloop
(11,523 posts)Our congressional GOPers obviously would rather have a war with Iran instead of negotiating with them.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)by in secret I assume.
What a cluster duck.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)clusterfuck follows.
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)who's balls are bigger. If the negotiations fell apart it would be fine with them . Good excuse to go to war and blame Obama.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)We will be dust before this gets on the big screens and in America's eyeballs....
Stephen Retired
(190 posts)BDS!
2naSalit
(86,791 posts)the GOP ask them not to. Right now, that's what they are working their way toward... it's scientists who are calling them out on the climate issues after all and showing how stupid they are.
underpants
(182,881 posts)What ever you think of the Massad are some tough customers
mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)the fucking Republicans, a few Dems and Netanyahu want a war with Iran because the fucking invasion of Iraq went so bloody well. This madness has to stop.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)Peacetrain
(22,878 posts)Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)We knew that Bibi was a joke, still not cool for an intelligence agency to undercut the democratically elected leader like that.
Especially during an election.
Strange times.
khankiso
(23 posts)pretty important to them to do that. I've a feeling the GOP will do as they please and go forward they want to start a war so they have somebody else to blame it on.
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)to go behind the back of a democratically elected leader and invite the leader of another country to address the congress.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)2naSalit
(86,791 posts)I wish our intelligence folk would have ratted out Bu$hCo. instead of facilitating the debacle that will plague us beyond our lifetimes.
Doesn't bother me a bit that they are warning that Bibi is dangerous.
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.
http://www.sonyclassics.com/thegatekeepers/site/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017130345
KG
(28,752 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Iran!
madokie
(51,076 posts)he is simply a little man in a big mans world and he can't stand it. The world will be a better place once he is no longer in any position of leadership or power as I'm sure he sees himself
nikto
(3,284 posts)Surprising.
And heartening.
At least, for now.
This also shines new light on the GOP.
GOP is more RW-extreme than Israel's equivalent to the CIA.
Wow.
Just Wow.
Weird world we live in.