Damned Zionists just can't stop lying.
Excerpt from article:
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The ruling was applauded by several Jewish groups, marking a slight
****ft in the position of the organized Jewish community, which until now
has generally avoided making its voice heard on the case.
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The Jewish community has generally avoided making its voice heard?
Huh?
I follow this article with two articles I posted previously to show
this is not the case.
Excerpts from article1
This from the very same 'newspaper' (the forward):
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Meanwhile, in the face of a rising wave of criticism from
lawmakers, Jewish organizations and neoconservative pundits, the
leaks regarding the FBI probe have stopped.
The American Jewish Committee, which already had called for a speedy and
open trial for Rosen and Weissman...
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Excerpts from article2:
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Jewish communal officials and members of Congress have protested the
investigation and the media frenzy around it, calling for an
investigation into who leaked the investigation and for what
purpose.
"He's bad, very bad," declared one senior Jewish organizational
executive, who like all those familiar with Szady declined to speak
for the record.
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They, of course, had to go into attack-and-smear mode.
But hey!
Now the story is that the Jewish Attack Mafia (JAM, as in toe-jam)
has been somewhat timid about "making its voice heard".
Poor things. They were probably afraid to speak out!
I'll bet they've been twisting arms behind the scenes.
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First article begins:
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Aipac Duo Wins Intermediate Court Victory
By Nathan Guttman
Thu. Jun 26, 2008
Two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee employees facing
charges of revealing classified information won a procedural victory
June 20, when a federal appeals court ruled against the prosecution's
request to lower the burden of proof in their upcoming trial and against
attempts to hold the trial behind closed doors.
The ruling was applauded by several Jewish groups, marking a slight
****ft in the position of the organized Jewish community, which until now
has generally avoided making its voice heard on the case.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., upheld the
standard of proof set by a federal district court in the case of Steve
Rosen and Keith Weissman, who were indicted in 2005 for communicating
classified information. The two former Aipac officials are accused of
receiving classified information from Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin
and passing it on to Israeli diplomats and journalists. A final trial
date for the investigation, which became public in August 2004, has not
yet been set.
In the earlier district court decision, Judge T.S. Ellis III ruled that
in order to make the case that Rosen and Weissman had broken the law,
the prosecution would need to prove a series of assumptions, among them,
that the defendants knew the information they were relaying was
classified national defense information, that they knew it was unlawful
to disclose the information and that they "had a bad-faith reason to
believe the disclosures could be used to the injury of the United States
or to the aid of a foreign nation." The district court also ruled that
the prosecution would have to prove that Rosen and Weissman intended to
harm the United States or aid another nation by disclosing the
information.
This past March, the government appealed Ellis's ruling, but last month
the appeals court knocked down the effort without discussing its merits.
The court accepted the defense's position that appeals should be limited
to only the scope of evidence allowed in the trial, not to other rulings
by the lower court.
An attempt by the prosecution to appeal a decision ensuring that the
court proceedings remain open to the public and that evidence and
witnesses are not presented behind closed doors was also turned down, on
the same grounds.
Two major Jewish groups welcomed the appeals court's decision.
The American Jewish Committee, which already had called for a speedy and
open trial for Rosen and Weissman, issued a statement welcoming the
decision. "The defendants and the public deserve to know the truth,"
said the AJCommittee's executive director, David Harris.
Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of
Reform Judaism, also applauded the court's ruling. "We look forward to a
swift, public, and just resolution to this trial," Saperstein said in a
statement.
Lawyers for Rosen and Weissman had been urging the community to take on
the issue and to side with the two defendants. In a June 23 appearance
at the annual conference of the American Jewish Press Association in
Wa****ngton, Baruch Weiss, one of Weissman's lawyers, said the Jewish
community had failed the two former Aipac employees.
"The failure of the Jewish community to stand in sup****t is shameful,"
Weiss said, arguing that if the prosecution is successful in the case,
all pro-Israel lobbying in Wa****ngton "will literally grind to a halt."
Thu. Jun 26, 2008
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As Leaks Dry Up in FBI Investigation, Activists Still Fear Jury
Probe
By Ori Nir
September 17, 2004
Wa****ngton — Even as a lull in government leaks appears to be
short-circuiting the media frenzy over the FBI's investigation of
the pro-Israel lobby, sources with access to the Justice Department
say the probe is moving forward.
Sources told the Forward that a federal grand jury is expected to
begin interviewing people in connection to the investigation, which
is believed to center on a Pentagon official suspected of passing
on classified do***ents on to the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee. Investigators re****tedly suspect that Aipac officials
passed on the information to Israel.
Jewish activists say that so far they know of no one who has been
subpoenaed to testify in front of the grand jury. But according to
one source, "there is a lot of nonsubpoena-level talking" between
investigators and people they think might know of suspected
wrongdoing.
The investigation could end up weakening the country's most
influential pro-Israel lobbying group significantly and, in turn,
cause damage to the American-Israeli relation****p. Now, however,
re****ters with mainstream national news organizations say, it has
become almost impossible to obtain any new information from law-
enforcement sources on the investigation.
"They are as tight as a drum," said one re****ter, who has been
following the story on a daily basis.
According to Wa****ngton insiders, the goal of the recent torrent of
unnamed government leaks was to undermine neoconservative Pentagon
analysts who backed the Iraq war, in particular the undersecretary
of defense for policy, Douglas Feith, the third-highest ranking
civilian in the Pentagon.
"It's clear to me that people are trying to point all the signs to
Feith's shop," said a re****ter with a major daily newspaper, who
has been covering the story.
The criticism of Feith, sources say, has little to do with his
being Jewish or his advocating positions identified with Israel's
right-wing Likud party. It also has little to do with his role in
shaping the administration's policy on Iran, a policy that
according to press re****ts was the subject of do***ents
inappropriately transferred by Lawrence Franklin, the Pentagon
specialist on Iran who is allegedly suspected of sharing secret
do***ents with Israeli diplomats and with staffers at Aipac, to
Israel or to Aipac.
Feith is the most obvious target for critics in the intelligence
community and the State Department, as well as members of the
Pentagon's senior brass, over the formation and execution of
American policy in post-war Iraq. He is perceived by many as
personifying the administration's alleged manipulation of prewar
intelligence to create a compelling case for war. He is also
perceived as being responsible for a series of mistakes in the
ongoing effort to pacify Iraq after the military campaign to depose
Saddam Hussein's rule had ended.
Criticism of Feith and the policies he represents "is of course
legitimate," a Jewish activist in Wa****ngton said. "Our concern,
though, is that this criticism, coupled with still-unsubstantiated
allegations and innuendo of inappropriate conduct by one of his
staffers, legitimizes conspiracy theories."
Feith was the subject of two unflattering profiles in the
mainstream media over the weekend. In an interview with National
Public Radio, Feith said, addressing his policy on Iraq: "I don't
mean to claim that no mistakes were made. There were mistakes, but
I think that some of the critics are unduly harsh and unrealistic."
He refused to comment to NPR on FBI investigations focusing on
members of his staff.
Meanwhile, in the face of a rising wave of criticism from
lawmakers, Jewish organizations and neoconservative pundits, the
leaks regarding the FBI probe have stopped.
The reasons for the lull are not clear, but journalists and Jewish
communal officials were floating several theories this week,
including the notion that the sudden silence came in response to
the condemnations from Jewish organizations and Capitol Hill.
"I sure hope that this is the case and that there was a directive"
issued to stop leaking, said Abraham Foxman, national director of
the Anti-Defamation League. Last week Foxman sent a letter to FBI
Director Robert Mueller and to Attorney General John Ashcroft
asking that they investigate who leaked the information and why.
"Maybe the clamp is on because [the leakers] made [law-enforcement
agencies] look bad in the whole process," said Malcolm Hoenlein,
executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations.
"It may be that this has run its course," Hoenlein said, sounding a
bit skeptical as he struggled to strike an optimistic chord.
"People have used it as an op****tunity to make a little trouble,
and now that's over." Foxman was quick to reject any talk of a
fading controversy, saying: "I think we have a long ways to go"
before the affair is over.
Other officials with major Jewish organizations seemed to agree.
"We don't know anything. Nobody is telling us anything," said a
veteran Jewish activist in Wa****ngton. "Someone seems to have put
the kibosh on [the leaks], but we don't see anything to indicate
that this is the end of the story. It will cause more embarrassment
as it unfolds."
The only new tidbit of information on the investigation to emerge
this week came from an interview in Time magazine with an
unidentified ex- member of the Iraqi National Congress, the group
headed by Ahmed Chalabi. The former INC member told Time that
Franklin asked him several probing questions. The man said that
Franklin questioned him only about possible leaks of secret
American information to the INC.
The Time re****t seemed to confirm earlier accounts that Franklin is
in fact cooperating with the FBI, and is trying to help
investigators with another suspected espionage scandal in the
Pentagon.
Law enforcement agencies re****tedly suspect that a Pentagon
official told Chalabi or one of his INC colleagues that the United
States had obtained secret Iranian communications codes. Chalabi is
allegedly suspected of disclosing that intelligence clue to the
Iranian government.
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INVESTIGATIVE RE****T
Official heading AIPAC probe linked to anti-Semitism case
By Edwin Black
WA****NGTON, Sept. 20 (JTA) — David Szady, the senior FBI
counterintelligence official currently heading the controversial
investigation of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is
well-known to senior Jewish communal officials, who assert he has
targeted Jews in the past.
Now, an investigation reveals that Szady was involved in a well-
publicized case involving a Jewish former CIA staff attorney who
sued the FBI, the CIA and its top officials for religious
discrimination.
Although not named in the suit, Szady headed the elite department
that former CIA Director George Tenet admitted in 1999 was involved
with "insensitive, unprofessional and highly inappropriate" language
regarding the case of the attorney, Adam Ciralsky.
The AIPAC investigation, which CBS broke last month on the eve of
the Republican convention, is believed to focus on a Pentagon
official suspected of passing a classified draft policy statement on
Iran to AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, which allegedly then passed it
on to Israel.
AIPAC denies any wrongdoing and has called the alleged charges
"baseless." But the case cast a spotlight on the venerable lobbying
organization and has sent shock waves through the Jewish community.
Jewish communal officials and members of Congress have protested the
investigation and the media frenzy around it, calling for an
investigation into who leaked the investigation and for what
purpose.
Many questions remain unresolved, including who initiated the
investigation, believed to have begun two years ago, and why.
Szady, who was appointed by President Bush in 2000 to head a little-
known intelligence interagency unit known as the National Counter
Intelligence Policy Board, returned to the FBI about two years ago,
becoming assistant director for counterintelligence.
Jewish communal officials familiar with Szady assert he has targeted
Jews, blocked or slowed their clearances and squeezed minor security
violators.
"He's bad, very bad," declared one senior Jewish organizational
executive, who like all those familiar with Szady declined to speak
for the record.
According to exclusively obtained do***ents, Szady was directly
involved in the Ciralsky case. He is identified in the do***ents as
the chief of the CIA's Counterespionage Group, known as CEG, which
was later accused of targeting Ciralsky for being Jewish and a
sup****ter of Israel.
Szady would not respond directly to a request for an interview, but
FBI spokeswoman Cassandra Chandler said, "David Szady has informed
me that he has no anti-Semitic views, has never handled a case or
investigation based upon an individual's ethnicity or religious
views, and would never do so."
Of the AIPAC investigation in particular, Chandler said:
"Investigations are predicated upon information of possible illegal
or intelligence activity. The suggestion that the FBI or any FBI
official has influenced this investigation based on moral, ethnic or
religious bias is simply unfounded, untrue, and contrary to the very
values the FBI holds highest."
Ciralsky's problems began as soon as he joined the CIA's legal staff
as a junior member in early December 1996. Within days, CIA security
personnel began creating a special file on Ciralsky and his Jewish
background, according to the do***ents.
One Dec. 19, 1996, internal CIA memo on Ciralsky indicated that a
CIA supervisor "would like to keep current on developments for
damage control purposes."
By Jan. 15, 1997, the agency had created a four-page annotated
"Jewish resume" of Ciralsky, which was classified "secret." The
resume listed Ciralsky's teenage trips to Israel in 1987 with the
Milwaukee federation and for Passover in 1988, his camp counselor
stint at the Milwaukee JCC's day camp, and his minor in Judaic
studies at George Wa****ngton University. His major in international
affairs was not mentioned.
Shortly thereafter, CIA security personnel were asking whether
Ciralsky's nephew might be working with the Israeli government,
according to do***ents; the nephew was only about five months old at
the time.
By May 1997, Szady, a 32-year veteran of the FBI, had joined the CIA
as chief of the Counterespionage Group, within the CIA's
Counterintelligence Center. A presidential directive mandates that
an independent FBI official serve as chief of the CIA's
Counterespionage Group.
Although Szady was not in his post when Ciralsky was hired, shortly
after Szady assumed his new position, the counterespionage group
appeared determined to terminate Ciralsky.
On June 12, 1997, a memo entitled, "Spot Re****t-Next Steps in the
Adam Ciralsky Case" was circulated by Szady's department, outlining
what would be done to force Ciralsky from the agency.
The re****t and the routing slips were tagged with classifications
such as "sensitive," "restricted handling" and "eyes only, no
registries" thus ensuring that the do***ents would not end up in any
formal and traceable file.
Although Szady's name is blocked out, his bureaucratic initials,
C/CEG/CIC, on two routing pages plus the hand-written acknowledgment
next to his initials, show he received the "Spot Re****t" the day it
was written, according to sources with personal knowledge of the
case.
By September 1997, unable to find any incriminating information on
Ciralsky, Szady's CEG assigned teams of investigators to ramp up the
pressure with multiple interrogations, according to do***ents.
One CEG investigator's memo on Sept. 12, 1997, suggests questions
for interrogators to ask Ciralsky, such as, "What is your family's
relation with Israeli President Ezer Wizman (sic)?"
This question was based on the fact that Ciralsky is a distant
relative of Ezer Weizman, who was Israel's president at the time.
The Sept. 12, 1997 memo added, "Maybe his family has donated money
to Israeli government causes."
The memo also quotes one of Szady's investigators, saying "From my
experience with rich Jewish friends from college, I would fully
expect Adam's wealthy daddy to sup****t Israeli political/social
causes in some form… [such as] Israeli Bonds purchased through the
United Jewish Appeal."
A week later, Sept. 19, 1997, before a security polygraph had even
been administered, Szady's CEG circulated a secret memo, saying that
former CIA director "Tenet says this guy is outta here because of
lack of candor… Once that's over, it looks like we'll be waving
goodbye to our friend."
Szady was third on the distribution list to receive that Sept. 19
memo, according to the routing slip and sources.
A handwritten note on the routing slips comments, "Great job — we
should have Ciralsky's re****t in the security file… This will
definitely…result in termination by cancellation of contract! Thx."
Ciralsky complained to the CIA's inspector general, the Office of
Equal Employment Op****tunity, to senior administration officials and
to Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
After the outlines of the Ciralsky story broke in 1998, the CIA
launched an internal and external review of Szady's department, the
CEG, to determine whether it had engaged in anti-Semitism.
As a result of that review, Tenet conceded in a letter to Abraham
Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League's national director, that "some
of the language used by some of the investigators in this case was
insensitive, unprofessional and highly inappropriate."
After the review, the CIA hired the ADL to conduct "sensitivity
training" within the ranks of Szady's CEG.
Foxman said, "The sensitivity training in the CIA was not directed
at one individual. It was directed at a situation. There was a
concern in the agency at that time, that the world was changing and
the agency itself needed its staff to be sensitive to diversity."
After he left the CIA in 1998, when his contract was not renewed,
Ciralsky filed a lawsuit against the CIA, the FBI and others,
alleging that he was "unjustly singled out for investigation and
subsequently interrogated, harassed, surveilled and terminated from
employment with the CIA solely because he is a Jew and he practices
the Jewish religion," according to the complaint.
Ciralsky's case was not isolated within the intelligence community,
according to senior officials at Jewish organizations who declined
to speak for the record. One Jewish official stated that he knew of
as many as 10 other CIA employees who had been harassed or pressured
because of their Jewish background, but they were afraid to come
forward.
Postings on the CIA's internal Jewish-only bulletin board — the
agency allows various ethnic groups within its ranks to share
company tidbits — reflect that numerous employees feel anti-Semitism
is rampant. One such posting in 2000, obtained from sources, asks,
"Does anyone know how one would go about informing the D/CI
[director of central intelligence] "directly that some incidents of
anti-Semitism…are tolerated?"
Despite Szady's direct involvement in the Ciralsky case, Szady was
decorated twice by the CIA for distinguished service, once with its
Seal Medallion and once with the Donovan Award.
One Jewish communal official said of Szady, "He has never stopped
looking for Mr. X," the elusive individual some FBI officials
hypothesized worked with Jonathan Pollard, who was sentenced in 1987
for spying for Israel.
At least one senior Jewish official cautioned against concluding too
much. "Szady might just be over-zealous. I know Jews who have been
to his house and they assure they saw no evidence of prejudice."
On Szady's link to the Ciralsky case, American Jewish Congress
chairman Jack Rosen said, "The FBI, in recent years, has been
criticized for many things, and if the story is true, I would urge
that an outside and independent individual or group come in to
investigate."
Ciralsky, now a TV network newsman, declined to comment on his case.
His lawsuit has been caught up in pre-trial legal limbo, hampered by
a series of preliminary motions, according to attorneys familiar
with the case.
(Award-winning investigative author and re****ter Edwin Black has
covered allegations of Israeli spying in the United States since the
Pollard case. He is the author of the forthcoming book, "Banking on
Baghdad" (Wiley), being released October 12, which chronicles 7,000
years of Iraqi history.)
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