ZGram - 9/7/2004 - "Buchanan: Pollardites in the Pentagon?"

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September 8, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I am still catching up with my work after my trip and have to resort 
to a couple of my favorite columnists.  Today it is Pat Buchanan 
commenting on what is ever more frequently being called "Israelgate":

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September 8, 2004
Pollardites in the Pentagon?

by Patrick J. Buchanan
In 1987, Jonathan Pollard, U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, was 
imprisoned for life for selling a roomful of U.S. secret documents to 
Israel. Tel Aviv refused to return them. At the Clinton-Netanyahu 
summit at Wye River, Pollard became a subject of contention.

"Bibi" Netanyahu wanted to fly the American traitor back to Israel 
where he is a hero. Clinton balked. CIA's George Tenet would resign, 
Clinton told Netanyahu, if he pardoned Pollard.

This history is recalled for a reason. Washington today is rife with 
reports the FBI has been investigating whether or not a nest of 
Pollardites inside the Pentagon has been funneling secrets, through 
the Israeli lobby AIPAC, to the Reno Road embassy and on to Sharon.

Suspected mole Larry Franklin, a Pentagon Iranian analyst, was 
reportedly sighted trying to hand over to an AIPAC official a draft 
copy of a National Security Presidential Directive on Iran. With the 
mullahs apparently pursuing atomic bombs, Israel wants the United 
States to attack, denuclearize and bring down its No. 1 enemy, the 
regime in Tehran.

Franklin popped up on FBI radar when he joined a breakfast meeting 
between an AIPAC man and an Israeli diplomat. AIPAC had been under 
FBI surveillance for over two years as a probable conduit to Israel 
of the fruits of espionage against the United States.

Franklin, a devout Catholic and hawk on Iran, is now said to be 
cooperating with the FBI. His boss, William Luti, is the deputy to 
the Pentagon's No. 3, Douglas Feith, who has close ties to Likud.

According to The Washington Post, the FBI is now interviewing present 
and ex-officials from Cheney's office and the Pentagon as to whether 
Feith, Richard Perle, David Wurmser and Paul Wolfowitz might have 
leaked U.S. security secrets to Israel, AIPAC or Ahmed Chalabi.

Chalabi, once the Pentagon's candidate to succeed Saddam, has lately 
fallen from favor. Reportedly, he was caught telling Iran's 
intelligence station chief in Baghdad that friends in the Pentagon 
informed him they had broken Iran's code and were listening in on 
Iran's secret communications between Baghdad and Tehran.

AIPAC and the Israelis deny any spying. Cooperation between the Bush 
and Sharon governments is so close, they insist, there is no need to 
commit espionage or thieve U.S. documents. Perhaps, but the men about 
whom the FBI is inquiring have old, deep and questionable ties to 
Israel and the Likud Party of Ariel Sharon.

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In 1970, Perle was picked up on an FBI wiretap discussing NSC secrets 
with the Israeli embassy. In 1981, as assistant secretary of defense, 
Perle got a top-secret security clearance for his chosen deputy 
Stephen Bryen, who is said to have narrowly eluded indictment for 
offering top-secret documents to Mossad's man in Washington.

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In 1982, Feith was the object of an inquiry as to whether he had 
given secret documents to the Israeli embassy. Fired from the NSC, he 
was hired by Perle. Feith left the Pentagon in 1986 to form a law 
firm - in Israel. Hired by Rumsfeld in 2001, Feith set up the Office 
of Special Plans, which cherry-picked the intelligence to the White 
House that turned out to be false, but facilitated the war on Iraq.

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In 1996, Perle, Feith and Wurmser co-authored a paper for Netanyahu 
calling for ditching Oslo, reoccupying the West Bank and overthrowing 
Saddam as "an important Israeli strategic objective."

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In 1998, Wolfowitz and Perle signed an open letter from the 
neoconservative front group PNAC to Clinton, urging him to ditch 
diplomacy and wage war on Iraq, and pledging their full support.

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On Jan. 1, 2001, eight months before 9/11, Wurmser, at AEI, called 
for joint U.S.-Israeli air strikes on Iraq, Iran, Syria and Libya.

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According to White House anti-terror chief Richard Clarke, Wolfowitz, 
in April 2001, wanted Osama put on a back burner and for us to go 
after Iraq. In the first hours after 9/11, according to Bob Woodward 
and Clarke, Wolfowitz wanted Iraq invaded, not Afghanistan. For his 
role in steering us into war, Wolfowitz was named Man of the Year - 
by the Jerusalem Post.



In my new book, Where the Right Went Wrong, there is a line that now 
appears prophetic: "America needs a Middle East policy made in the 
USA, not in Tel Aviv, or at AIPAC or AEI."

Having promised him a cakewalk to Baghdad and a rose garden 
thereafter, neoconservatives misled President Bush. He should have 
fired the lot of them. Having failed to do so, he ought now, in his 
own interests, as well as our nation's, name Patrick "Bulldog" 
Fitzgerald, now heading up the investigation into the Valerie Plame 
leak, to head up the investigation of Israeli espionage, and possible 
treason, against the United States.

If there has been a recurrence of Pollardism at the Pentagon, we need 
to know and the president needs to act, as Truman did not with Alger 
Hiss and Harry Dexter White.

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