Why Does AIPAC Spy on Americans? (AntiWar.com)
Why Does AIPAC Spy on Americans?
by Grant Smith, November 05, 2009
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According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Steven J. Rosen will be allowed to move ahead with his civil defamation lawsuit against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Rosen and fellow AIPAC employee Keith Weissman were indicted under the 1917 Espionage Act in 2005 along with Department of Defense Employee Col. Lawrence Franklin for passing classified national defense informaiton. Franklin pled guilty, but Rosen and Weissman’s case never went to trial — US attorneys gave up (PDF) after the presiding judge made a successful prosecution unlikely.
Rosen’s 2009 civil lawsuit contends that AIPAC defamed him when its spokesperson claimed that he "did not comport with standards that AIPAC expects of its employees." Rosen’s many filings in court reveal that his fundamental case is that AIPAC commonly circulates and distributes classified US government information when it suits the organization’s purpose in lobbying for Israel. AIPAC defamed him, he alleges, by claiming he was somehow unique.
An FBI file declassified and released on July 31, 2009 (PDF) backs up Rosen’s assertions. In 1984 AIPAC obtained a classified report compiled from the business secrets of US industries and associations opposed to signing a bilateral trade agreement with Israel. The FBI found that AIPAC had "attempted to influence members of Congress with the use of a purloined copy of the ITC report and had usurped their authority."
The Washington Field Office of the FBI went on to assert that "AIPAC is a powerful-pro Israel lobbying group staffed by U.S. citizens. WFO files contain an unsubstantiated allegation that a member of the Israeli Intelligence Service was a staff member of AIPAC."
Rosen is well on his way to claiming $20 million in damages for AIPAC’s "defamation" propelled by the court’s new ruling. But for Americans much larger concerns linger. Why isn’t AIPAC registering as an agent of a foreign principal if it is collaborating so closely with foreign intelligence services? Why are these matters being litigated in civil court as a family squabble between members of the Israel lobby? If espionage is a recurring, institutionalized feature of AIPAC, doesn’t that mitigate against its claims to be an American non-profit, working for American interests? From the NRA to the AARP, no legitimate American nonprofit lobby has ever been found to be trafficking in so much intelligence information, or so frequently channeling it to a foreign government parties and friends in the establishment media.
Newly emerging declassified facts are reminders to concerned Americans that AIPAC is not at all what it claims to be. Rosen’s lawsuit will not likely make good on his and former lobbyist Douglas Bloomfield’s implicit threats to reveal AIPAC as a stealth, unregistered foreign agent of the Israeli government.
Fortunately for Americans, that uncomfortable fact is now emerging in myriad ways, even in the midst of AIPAC’s new attempts to engineer policies that could accelerate the downfall of the US economy.
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Nice
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USA = gorilla; Israel = chimps; Powers that be = orangutan
Yep, the ol' Planet of the Apes metaphor.
Israel is the front for the intellectual head of the powers that be...France, England, Russia, Germany, and lately the US have all had a turn at being this front. If you want to know what will happen to the US, just look at those countries.
They are being swarmed with illegal immigrants...meanwhile, Israel purges unwanted people.
Anyway, as long as the US is the muscle of the powers that be we will enjoy a nice standard of living, but little freedom. The problem is that soon, the US will no longer be the major muscle of the powers that be. The major muscle will center around Israel (duh, that's where the intellectual capital will be)...everything else is expendible and can be automated.Sure, the US will be the muscle on this side of the world for a bit longer, but there is no reason to provide such a good standard of living anymore.
That is why a lot of Americans are rushing out of the US to either Israel (the new center of the universe) or, out of a futile attemt to gain freedom, to New Zealand/Austrailia.
And I think Israel will be the final resting place. The powers that be simply love that place...the Holy land, if you will. Some say that the area has religious powers, some say that the Holy land is a great location for trading, some even say that the area has the special coordinates for inter-dimensional travel (YouTube the Arrivals to watch a fascinating take on world events).
I dunno, but the powers that be have been chomping at the bit to get it. I hope they find that it isn't all that special and thus can turn their attention to developing global infrastructures that can turn this chaotic planet of apes into a global civilized space ship.
As far as stopping them via Ron Paul, I have to chuckle.
Jewish Lobby Gives Obama His Marching Orders
By Michael Collins Piper
THE POWERFUL JEWISH LOBBY in Washington is already issuing marching orders to President-elect Barack Obama. One of the most influential voices of the lobby has published an array of “working papers” designed to tell the president how he must maintain the “special relationship” between the United States and Israel, increase pressure on a variety of Arab and Muslim states that are perceived as dangers to Israel, and generally assure that Israel’s interests will always be first and foremost in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, not only in the Middle East but around the globe.
The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a particularly vocal force in the Jewish lobby, published an entire edition of its Journal of International Security Affairs (dated fall 2008), sending the official word to Obama. JINSA was founded by one Stephen Bryen who—along with a host of other well known names connected to JINSA—was once investigated by the FBI on charges of espionage for Israel.
A variety of articles in the journal addressing “Middle East Policy and the Next President” and “Iran, Iraq and Beyond,” make it clear that JINSA—best known as a nest of the infamous “neo-conservatives” who misdirected U.S. foreign policy during the outgoing Bush administration, sparking the war in Iraq and continuing to clamor for action against Iran—wants Obama to pursue Bush-style policies.
AIPAC is particularly obsessed with using U.S. military and economic power to force Arab and Muslim nations to “reform” from within. Talk of “democracy” flows freely within AIPAC’s assorted essays, demanding that Israel’s neighbors conform to the Western version of democracy. But when the Palestinian people voted the Hamas movement into power in the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza strip, AIPAC and other elements in the Jewish lobby immediately began calling for the United States to reject that freely elected government.
Now, of course, Hamas is largely only in control of the beleaguered Gaza—which many refer to as “ghetto”— and the Palestinian statehood movement has been eviscerated, at least for now. This makes AIPAC and the lobby for Israel quite happy, for Israel has long encouraged U.S. policies—and helped create conditions—that have the effect of “divide and conquer” in the Arab and Muslim world.
Israel is not like any other nation in the world, in that it seems to thrive best (and enjoys the benefits of) having its neighbors quarreling among themselves and rent within. Other nations prefer neighbors that are peaceful and internally secure. Israel wants its neighbors in chaos, because this prevents them from waging war against Israel, either individually or united. And although in the wake of the debacle in Iraq, which led many Israelis and their allies in the United States to suddenly proclaim that the Iraq war should never have been waged, the fact is that Israel and its U.S.-based agents-in-place were the prime movers behind that war and it was Israeli intelligence that was providing what critics now recognize was the “bad intelligence” that led the Bush administration to “mistakenly” conclude that Iraq was working toward an assembly of nuclear weapons to rival that of Israel.
The Israelis and their American spokesmen evidently now believe that if they tell the “big lie” often enough—the lie that Israel’s interests played no part in orchestrating the debacle in Iraq—that it will make Americans forget that Israel was the foremost advocate of the war in the first place.
However, the evisceration of Iraq by the United States is part and parcel of a long-standing Israeli national security policy aimed toward “balkanizing” the Muslim world.
Yet, AIPAC, in its journal, is now working to perpetuate the myth of Iraqi nuclear weapons and suggesting that Iraq’s weapons were transported into Syria, another nation which has been on the “wish list for war” of Israel and its lobby in America. And AIPAC makes it clear that the destruction of Iran’s nuclear development program is a “must.”
AIPAC is not the only Israeli lobby unit sending the message to the new president. Commentary magazine, long affiliated with the American Jewish Committee, has—in recent issues—been trumpeting a similar bellicose refrain directed at Obama. The editorial director of the Jewish lobby journal is John Podhoretz, a longtime close personal and political associate of the ubiquitous William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard magazine, which is the most infamous voice of the neo-conservative, hard-line pro-Israel elements operating in the media, in the think tanks, and in official policy making and national security and intelligence circles in Washington.
Their fathers, Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz, are two of the founding fathers of the neoconservative network, both Trotskyite Marxists who announced their “conversion” to conservatism during the latter days of the Cold War, banging the drum for intensified U.S. support for Israel.
A complete overview of the neo-conservative power structure and its rather bizarre origins in the days when American Jewish communists like Kristol and Podhoretz turned on the Soviet Union when then- Soviet chief Josef Stalin began moving against Jewish and Zionist elements inside Russia can be found in The High Priests of War and The Judas Goats, two works by this author.
Whether President Obama intends real change, as he promised, or whether he will advance the Israeli agenda (which saw its power expand exponentially in the Republican administration of George W. Bush) remains to be seen. But “the lobby” is making its voice heard and Obama knows that he better not ignore it.
A journalist specializing in media critique, Michael Collins Piper is the author of The High Priests of War, The New Jerusalem, Dirty Secrets, The Judas Goats, The Golem, Target Traficant and My First Days in the White House All are available from AFP.
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AIPAC a stealth, unregistered foreign agent of the Israeli gov't
** This is what needs to be understood**
There needs to be an investigation of violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
AIPAC is a stealth, unregistered foreign agent of the Israeli government.
** Some of you won't want to hear this but I am going to say it anyway. Ron Paul voted against condemning the Goldstone report..one of only 3 Republicans and he includes Israel in his non-interventionist foreign policy..so look for him to be blacked out of the media again if he runs 2012 and his opponents will recieve tons of money from AIPAC.
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"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
Stu--you don't care much for Israel, do you?
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Better question is
Why do you care for Israel Bobby?
Don't you follow the motto and Constitution... Trade with all No Alliance with any.
Don't act like AIPAC dosen't control the government like puppets. How many billion a year do we send them in aide.. Isn't it like 75% of all aide sent overseas.
You support Zionism Bobby.
That last sentence is uncalled for
I ask that you take it back.
When it comes to foreign relations,
I agree with what George Washington said in his farewell address.
But I do think Israel has the right to exist and defend itself.
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Bobby you need to review~ Ron Paul on Israel
Israel Invades Gaza Ron Paul Responds Jan 4,2009
http://www.ronpaul.com/20...
Ron Paul on Israel Jan 9. 2009
http://www.ronpaul.com/20...
Ron Paul on Israel, Crisis, Obama
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
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Thanks--I will check out those sites/vids
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Do you think we should SEND THEM BILLIONS YEARLY?
you dodged the question bobby. You sound like a Zionist bobby.
No--we should keep our money here in America and
give foreign aid to no nation.
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Love ya Bobby!! LOL.
Couldn't agree more!
That's good
All I meant to say is that Israel is a sovereign nation and we should respect that fact but we don't have to give them Billions each year.
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Oh I respect soverigenty.
Absolutely.