Israeli officials are desperately trying to deny the latest reports out of the Wall Street Journal that they conducted a spying campaign against US officials involved in the Iran negotiations with an eye toward feeding that information to US Congressmen to sour the talks.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the reports “utterly false,” insisting Israel would never spy on the United States under any circumstance. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon insisted the report was part of a plot to try to harm US-Israeli ties.
House Speaker John Boehner (R – OH) insisted he was “shocked and baffled” by the report, and denied that he had been given any intelligence by the Israelis on the talks.
Sen. Bob Corker (R – TN) also denied any talks, and complained he felt “left out.” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R – SC), by contrast, only denied any specific “briefings,” but suggested he was given intelligence by Israeli officials, saying only that it was things he’d already known about.
In the past month, Israel has been repeatedly reported to be trying to sabotage the Iran talks with selective funneling of intelligence to Congress. The Obama Administration was said to have limited briefing access to Israelis over fear anything they told Israel would get leaked to Congress and spun in as negative a light as possible.
A fifth column in our midst, and the "unshakeable" relationship will continue. Pathetic.
Did anyone expect they would admit it. It time for that useless money-draining Justice department to start going through federal laws and start charging israelis, Congress people and their staff with whatever they can find. All those traitors who pretend to be "law and order" need to start having those applied to them.
But they are above the law…
Boehner is (another) empty suit on AIPAC's payroll. My guess is (we) won't
hear a peep out of this stooge. However, he and his flunkies in Congress
would have something to say if (Iran) had spied on the US-Iran talks.
Dammed fool!
Boehner being baffled is no surprise and I'm betting he's only "shocked" that the WSJ, the official journalistic (supposedly) arm of the republican party, is where the story was reported first.
Its just the usually story of factional in fighting in DC. Good to see there is a faction that is battlng the 'zionists'
"Boner" baffled? Let's see; can we find something he wasn't baffled by? (the correct answer is NO).
" insisting Israel would never spy on the United States under any circumstance" ROFL.
A crucial part of espionage has always been to deny when you are caught. Now, if Russia had been accused to spy on Mr. Kerry, Mr. Boehner would have immediately yelled "more punishment of Putin" even if he had not received the slightest evidence of that espionage. He would have praised the CIA for finding out.
Technically speaking, Netanyahu is probably being truthful when he says Israelis didn't share clandestine information with congress. What most likely happened however, was that the information in question was simply given to AIPAC, who in turn, shared it with select members of congress. With the above serving as a prime example of how implanted 5th columnists are working behind-the-scenes to produce foreign US foreign policy decisions that are detrimental to the American people but highly favorable to Israel.