US sees Israel, tight Mideast ally, as spy threat
By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO | Associated Press – 1 hr 23 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA station chief opened the locked box containing the sensitive equipment he used from his home in Tel Aviv, Israel, to communicate with CIA headquarters in Virginia, only to find that someone had tampered with it. He sent word to his superiors about the break-in.
The incident, described by three former senior U.S. intelligence officials, might have been dismissed as just another cloak-and-dagger incident in the world of international espionage, except that the same thing had happened to the previous station chief in Israel.
It was a not-so-subtle reminder that, even in a country friendly to the United States, the CIA was itself being watched.
Despite inarguable ties between the U.S. and its closest ally in the Middle East and despite statements from U.S. politicians trumpeting the friendship, U.S. national security officials consider Israel to be, at times, a frustrating ally and a genuine counterintelligence threat.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
THIS IS A VERY RARE REPORT
In the mainstream press, we very rarely get any reporting that is critical of Israel.
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See, here's the problem. Show me an American official who has gone on record with anything like the assessment in bold and I'll show you one who was either forced out or quickly apologized and modified his assessment.
Now Michael Scheurer could no longer be so employed. He assessed a continued alliance with Israel meant American Mideast policy was ultimately doomed.
That's the REAL "political correctness"
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