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Thanks, seems to be an abbreviated version of what was up prior, missing also is Waller's postscript which I give here:

‘So What, It’s Only Israel!’

There is a tendency in and out of government to minimize the impact of Israeli espionage against the United States because Israel is a friendly country. That overlooks the gravity of the espionage threat, says David Major, former director of counterintelligence programs at the National Security Council. “This ‘don’t worry about allied spying, it’s okay’ attitude is harmful,” he warns. “The U.S. should expect that the rest of the world is bent on rooting out its national-security secrets and the secrets that could subject its leaders to blackmail.” Minimizing or excusing “friendly spying,” he argues, only discourages vigilance and encourages more attacks on U.S. national security. “I’m not outraged by nations that find it in their interests to collect intelligence but by our unwillingness to seriously pursue counterintelligence.”
Major, now dean of the private Center for Counterintelligence and Security Studies, asks: “What price should Israel pay for this? My predictions are that there will be no impact whatsoever. Do we put our heads in the sand or do we take it as a wake-up call?”
Others observe that Israel has passed stolen U.S. secrets to America’s adversaries. The government of Yitzhak Shamir reportedly provided the Soviet Union with valuable U.S. documents stolen by Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. “It’s the security equivalent of herpes,” says a former U.S. antiterrorism official now at a pro-Israel think tank who requested anonymity. “Who gets it [beyond Israel] nobody knows.... Once we let it happen, the word gets out that ‘you can get away with this.’”

— JMW