Posted on 03/24/2015 7:02:55 AM PDT by Star Traveler
Israel on Tuesday vehemently denied claims that it had spied on the U.S. during the Iranian negotiations, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal.
Official in the Prime Minister’s Office called the allegations "utterly false."
"The State of Israel does not conduct espionage against the United States or Israel’s other allies. The false allegations are clearly intended to undermine the strong ties between the United States and Israel and the security and intelligence relationship we share," they said.
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said Israel had not received an official complaint from the American administration over such claims and that "there is no way, and there was no way, that Israel spied on the Americans. That is seriously forbidden among every level of Israel's policy leaders."
"Israel's security-intelligence relationship with the U.S. has suffered no harm, someone is just trying to stir conflict," Ya'alon said. "It's a shame that such winds are blowing into the clandestine channels in which we conduct this relationship."
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
If anyone is caught spying on the US, like Jonathan Pollard, they should rot in jail, then dump their dead carcass.
I think you’re talking about Obama ... he should rot in jail and then dump his carcass ... LOL ...
The odumbo clan will do and say what ever is necessary to protect their own hide. Even IF Israel did spy on the negotiation plans of odumbo, they were correct in letting everyone know what the “traitors” are plnning.
Whatever. Sometimes we even trade'em back and forth. Or worse. Very old international sport.
Headline double negative.
With an enemy in place as POTUS, Israel would be foolish to NOT spy on us.
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Per the Wall St Journal article.
“It is one thing for the U.S. and Israel to spy on each other. It is another thing for Israel to steal U.S. secrets and play them back to U.S. legislators to undermine U.S. diplomacy,” said a senior U.S. official briefed on the matter.The White House discovered the operation, in fact, when U.S. intelligence agencies spying on Israel intercepted communications among Israeli officials that carried details the U.S. believed could have come only from access to the confidential talks, officials briefed on the matter said.
Israeli officials denied spying directly on U.S. negotiators and said they received their information through other means, including close surveillance of Iranian leaders receiving the latest U.S. and European offers. European officials, particularly the French, also have been more transparent with Israel about the closed-door discussions than the Americans, Israeli and U.S. officials said.
I don't know if Israel was spying on our negotiators, the idea that they got the information spying on Iranians and from the French is credible. But if Obama's outrage is triggered by information he got by spying on Israel, he must have mounted one of those high horses he accuses white Christians of riding.
Of course the real "crime" here is that Congress got relevant information. Emporer Obama prefers they be left in the dark, neither advice nor consent needed
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