F.B.I. Interviews 2 Suspected of Passing Secrets to Israel

By DAVID JOHNSTON

Published: September 1, 2004


ASHINGTON, Aug. 31 - Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted interviews with two officials at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee who are suspected of passing classified information from a Pentagon analyst to Israeli intelligence, government officials and a lawyer for the committee said on Tuesday.


On Friday, F.B.I. agents visited the two officials of the group, Steven Rosen, the organization's director of foreign policy issues, and Keith Weissman, one of its experts on Iran, said Nathan Lewin, a lawyer for the pro-Israel lobbying group, known as Aipac.

The interviews took place about the same time that news organizations began reporting the existence of the F.B.I. counterintelligence investigation, officials said. The F.B.I. interviews were halted when each of the men asked to be represented by a lawyer before answering more questions.

A Washington defense lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said he had been hired to represent the employees, but would not discuss the case. Aipac has said in a statement that the organization is cooperating with investigators but that the accusations against its employees are baseless.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/01/national/01inquire.html

So do you think that this is going to go anywhere? I heard the rumor that the first arrest(s) would be this week.

Spy Probe Scans Neocon-Israel Ties
The burgeoning scandal over claims that a Pentagon official passed highly classified secrets to a Zionist lobby group appears to be part of a much broader set of FBI and Pentagon investigations of close collaboration between prominent U.S. neoconservatives and Israel dating back some 30 years.

According to knowledgeable sources, who asked to not be identified, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) has been intensively reviewing a series of past counter-intelligence probes that were started against several high-profile neocons but never followed up with prosecutions, to the great frustration of counterintelligence officers, in some cases.

Some of these past investigations involve top current officials, including Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz; Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, whose office appears to be the focus of the most recently disclosed inquiry; and Richard Perle, who resigned as Defense Policy Board (DPB) chairman last year.

All three were the subject of a lengthy investigative story by Stephen Green published by Counterpunch.org in February. Green is the author of two books on U.S.-Israeli relations, including Taking Sides: America's Secret Relations with a Militant Israel, which relies heavily on interviews with former Pentagon and counterintelligence officials.

At the same time, another Pentagon office concerned with the transfer of sensitive military and dual-use technologies has been examining the acquisition, modification and sales of key hi-tech military equipment by Israel obtained from the United States, in some cases with the help of prominent neoconservatives who were then serving in the government.

Some of that equipment has been sold by Israel – which in the last 20 years has become a top exporter of the world's most sophisticated hi-tech information and weapons technology – or by Israeli middlemen, to Russia, China and other potential U.S. strategic rivals. Some of it has also found its way onto the black market, where terrorist groups – possibly including al-Qaeda – obtained bootlegged copies, according to these sources.

http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=3478


Israel's Mole Inside the Pentagon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=783161

I have read all of your's and other's contributions to this case. I have my fingers crossed.

I don't see how they can make this go away. But it will take time to surface, a big, complicated case. The FBI will cover all their bases before they run with this.

it just might be time for another terror alert, but I think they've already run out. That trick doesn't seem to be working anymore.

If this is what Josh Marshall was describing as tectonic, I don't think he was exaggerating. Having said that, I'm very skeptical that anything of any importance is going to be disseminated by our press, and the republican crime family seems to have an almost limitless ability to stonewall.

So, I'll believe it when I see it. I haven't caught up on all my reading yet, but I did read yesterday that the Senate Intelligence Oversight Committee had agreed to not delve into this until after the election... that really chaps me. This is exactly the face-saving bull crap that's gotten us into this mess. It's way past time for honesty.

n : favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power
(as by giving them jobs)

From nepotism Alexander V. was safe; for he was without kindred or relatives. But
there was another perhaps more fatal nepotism, which turned the tide of popularity
against him -- the nepotism of his order. --Milman.