Hopefully we are doing the same.
Posted on 03/24/2015 9:30:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In a revelation that is bound to further erode an already tense relationship between the US and Israel, Israel has reportedly been spying on nuclear talks with Iran — and then using the inside info to lobby members of Congress to kill the deal.
Officials told The Wall Street Journal that the spying began last year after the US and other interested parties entered negotiations on slowing down Iran's nuclear program.
This news comes after a tumultuous few weeks following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to a joint session of Congress. In that address on March 3, Netanyahu passionately declared that the emerging agreement with Iran was a "bad deal."
The Journal report cites "current and former" White House officials who said Israel's spying activity was an attempt to "penetrate the negotiations and then help build a case against the emerging terms of the deal."
This has apparently upset some of the officials who have knowledge on the ongoing negotiations.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Its a good thing. We certainly can’t expect the obamists to be honest about what they are doing.
I should hope so.
Israel denies ‘utterly false’ claims it spied on U.S.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3271401/posts
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.”
I like how they try to make it sound like a bad thing.
Israel spying on the US? What?
They are just doing the job the Main Stream Media refuse to do.
Listening to participants sharing details out of fear for their own nations does not qualify as spying.
Can’t say i have a problem with it these days
The “most transparent administration in history” is pissed off that Congress found out what they were up to.
No kidding. More like staying “situationally aware”.
This all sort of gives a fresh take on the old statement: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
This makes me giggle. I hope it’s true. And it’s not eroding relations between “the US and Israel.” It’s relations between Obama and his troglodytes and Israel.
Good. The enemy is in the WH.
Its what they do and they are damn good at it. Better than we, I think.
A nation should always spy on its enemies.
Hopefully we are doing the same.
Gee, sounds just like what Democrats did to George W Bush about Iraq....
Boehner ‘shocked’ and ‘baffled’ by report Israel spied on US talks with Iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3271487/posts
Speaker of the House says he received no information from Israel on nuclear talks as was suggested in ‘Wall Street Journal’ report.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday that he was “shocked” and “baffled” by a Wall Street Journal report published Tuesday morning that claimed Israel had spied on US nuclear talks with Iran, collecting information that was used to lobby him and his colleagues in Congress to drum up opposition to an emerging nuclear deal.
“I’m not sure what the information was, but I’m baffled by it,” Boehner told reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
“No information [was] revealed to me whatsoever,” he added.
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It’s the Obama Administration ... LYING as usual!
Good for Israel.
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