Israel spied on US nuke talks with Iran and then used inside info to lobby US Congress

Business Insider ^ | 03/24/2015 | Bryan Logan

[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.

[factoryrat]

When the US has a president and administration that has been openly hostile to all of our allies, and tends to side with communist, militant islamic, and fascist regimes throughout the world, I would be keeping close tabs on him too.

The next president, and the new administration that follows, assuming that we somehow manage to elect a sane non-commie one, needs to make the first order of business a complete and total house cleaning of the federal government.

[43north]

This sure smells like an owebama operation to try to pile more shiite on US-Israeli relations.

[jospehm20]

I think that spying on talks between other nations that may have an impact on your nation should be expected.

[marron]

If they were spying on Iran, and not the US, they would still know the same things.

[marron]

Usually you are hiding things from your enemies. The obamists are hiding things from Israel and from the American people. This makes it very clear who they consider their friends, and who they consider their enemies.

[servantboy777]

>>Israel has reportedly been spying on nuclear talks with Iran<<

So what! The federal government has been spying on it’s own citizens without probable cause or warrant.

The hypocrisy is astounding. Good grief, will someone with a damn backbone please stand up.

[minnesota_bound]

So there are people in congress and the White House that want a nuclear attack on Israel.
AND the United States.

[familyop]

Is there any law against “spying on nuclear talks with Iran?” Is there any moral prohibition against doing so? Where’s the evidence that Israel did so?

[SaraJohnson]

Good! Pissed the Mullah of the US off.

[SunkenCiv]

Total agitprop from Zero and his lying cadre.

• Boehner 'shocked' and 'baffled' by report Israel spied on US talks with Iran

  Speaker of the House says he received no information from Israel on nuclear talks as was suggested in 'Wall Street Journal' report... 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... "No information [was] revealed to me whatsoever," he added.