A document has surfaced from the intelligence budget that confirms what many have said for years: Israel continues to spy on the United States despite massive levels of U.S. aid and support. Israel is listed as one of the key targets for counterintelligence effort with China, Russian, Iran, and Cuba. Even as Israel continues to pressure the United States for the release of American Jonathan Pollard, an Israeli spy convicted in 1987, the report indicates that Israel is continuing to target the United States with espionage.
The acknowledgement of the Israeli espionage is an embarrassment for the powerful pro-Israel lobby in Washington, which only a few years ago saw two ranking figures in AIPAC accused of criminal receipt of classified information. Georgetown University’s Paul Pillar stated “everything is trumped by political realities” and there will be a full-court press among allies in Congress and government to bury this story.
The document states “To further safeguard our classified networks, we continue to strengthen insider threat detection capabilities across the Community,” reads the FY 2013 congressional budget justification for intelligence programs. “In addition, we are investing in target surveillance and offensive CI [counterintelligence] against key targets, such as China, Russia, Iran, Israel, Pakistan and Cuba.”
The political danger of the story is obvious when we are continuing to give Israel billions in aid even as we curtail and cancel educational, scientific, and environmental programs for lack of funding in the United States like just $1 million to save a species in Nevada. By the way, that other big recipient of U.S. funds — Pakistan — is also on the list as a major intelligence threat to the United States.
Source: The Hill
WHAT?????? Israel spying on the U.S.????? I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you! To think, here we bend over backward to kiss Israel’s hindquarters diplomatically, give them billions in aid, prepare to go to war to ‘protect’ their interests only to find out they are spying on us? Say it ain’t so!
at least the U.S. knows how it feels to be spied upon.
prophecies say ten kings strip and burn up a harlot that rides the beast that is made up of all the empires since Egypt. another prophecy calls Jerusalem a prostitute that will be destroyed. another said the temple and the city would be destroyed. only the temple was destroyed in the first century AD. that makes this revelation from a U.S. intelligence report very fascinating to me.
The Washington Post has sat on this story while the CIA/NSA bargained w/ them to leave info out for “national embarrassment…err, pride. The Post reportedly has a LOT MORE. They just published the titles of categories and reportedly have the numbers, specific projects, etc.
Well, the US spies on its allies (e.g.,European Union), why shouldn’t they spy on the US?
Not the least of their concerns is to ferret out each and every bit of negatve press, negative talk, or any person in any position of even meager authority not fully on their Israeli side, no matter what. It is a disgusting, wholly un-American situation.
The Israeli / U.S. Spy game Theme:
Blouise,
For whatever reason, the spam filter had you. Since there were three posts of essentially the same content, I picked what seemed the most robust and approved it.
ap,
My lost comment was to you regarding the link you posted at 9:30. Fascinating stuff.
Somewhere in the void is a comment of mine … tried twice with no success
ap,
The link you posted at 9:30am was an eye-opener and nicely organized. I bookmarked it for reference.
I expected the increases for the CIA and NSA to be huge but the actual numbers were an unpleasant surprise.
And what in the hell is the National Reconnaissance Office?! They’re cash eaters too.
(I’m posting this again as the first time isn’t showing up and when I try to repost WP keeps telling me that I’m posting a duplicate)
And yet AIPAC, twice found to be harboring Israeli spies, is still a most welcome and lucrative participant in the giant graft game that is lobbying.
Filed under “Curiouser and Curiouser”.
What news about this? Ex-moSSad agent Victor Ostrovsky exposed that and many other facts in his 1990 book, “By Way Of Deception”, as have other people.
I wish for at least one year, maybe two, we could just cut off all foreign aid to Egypt, Israel, Pakistan, etc, and get that money back for education, science, infrastructure. Let them deal with things without the money, just for a year or two.
We (USA) sell weapons to every country on the planet, and then, we develop ‘intelligence and counterintelligence’ on these same countries? This is another con game to keep the American public under an oligarchial, imperialistic regime (form of socially controlling the American public: after all we-the-people are the greatest threat to this form of government).
“$52.6 billion”
“The Black Budget”
“Covert action. Surveillance. Counterintelligence. The U.S. “black budget” spans over a dozen agencies that make up the National Intelligence Program.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-budget/
This Syrian situation is not Machiavellian, it is hodge podge and vain. The prez put his foot in his mouth a year ago w/ the red line comment. It appears those lunches w/ Biden have had the reverse intent.
Reblogged this on Brittius.com.
Is Obama’s Syria endgame getting Israel attacked?
If there is no strategic good that can come from lobbing missiles into Syria and then walking away, could an Iranian attack on Israel be part of Obama’s plan? At The Political Commentator here: http://goo.gl/syCKDe
Reminds me of Washingtons Farwell Address…. Be careful of forming permeant alliances with foreign governments…. Etc…. I wonder… Just wonder if he consulted Nostradamus’ prophesies …..