Rice to face subpoena in spying case.
By on Nov 2nd, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Rice to face subpoena in spying case.
A federal judge ruled today that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior intelligence officials “will be subpoenaed to discuss their conversations with pro-Israel lobbyists” who “are accused of receiving classified information from a now-convicted Pentagon official and relaying it to an Israeli official and the press.” If Rice ultimately testifies in court, the case “could offer a behind-the-scenes look at the way U.S. foreign policy is crafted.”
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Oh, a subpoena?
You mean like the one she has already ignored…?
Oh, OK. Good luck with that.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:42 pm“could offer a behind-the-scenes look” the operative word being “could”!
Shall we start a pool for how many times she says that she does “not recall”?
Other than her sure-to-be-hopeless testimony (if she does in fact testify) that trial should be interesting. I wonder how much it’ll be covered in the media though. A little too close to home perhaps.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:46 pmAIPAC SPY SCANDAL:
CONSPIRACY TO COMMUNICATE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION TO AGENT OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENT
1. Defendant LAWRENCE ANTHONY FRANKLIN was employed by the United States government at the Department of Defense (DoD) in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), International Security Affairs (ISA), Office of Near East and South Asia, Office of Northern Gulf Affairs, Iran desk, and held a Top Secret security clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). FRANKLIN’S office was located within the Pentagon, in the Eastern District of Virginia. FRANKLIN was also a Colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve (USAFR).
2. Throughout his employment with the United States government, FRANKLIN repeatedly signed written agreements acknowledging his duty to safeguard classified information
3. At no time was FRANKLIN authorized to release classified information to ROSEN and WEISMANN except with respect to Overt Acts 43 and 44 in count one.
4. Defendant STEVEN J. ROSEN was employed as the Director of Foreign Policy Issues for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington, D.C. ROSEN was hired by AIPAC in or about July 1982. AIPAC, according to its website, is ” America’s ProIsrael Lobby.” AIPAC lobbies the U.S. Congress and Executive Branch agencies on various issues related to Israel and U.S. Foreign policy in the Middle East. As the Director of Foreign Policy Issues, ROSEN lobbied on behalf of AIPAC, primarily with officials within the Executive Branch of the U.S. government. During the time period of this indictment, ROSEN did not have a U.S. government security clearance and was not authorized to receive or possess U.S. government classified information.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/reports/2005/franklin_indictment_04aug2005.htm
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:47 pmsubpoenas…? courts…? separation of powers…? contempt charges…? the geneva convention…? the u.s. constitution…? how quaint…!
And, yes, I DO take it personally
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:47 pmWAYS, MANNER AND MEANS OF THE CONSPIRACY
A. It was part of the conspiracy that, in an effort to influence persons within and outside the United States government, ROSEN and WEISSMAN would cultivate relationships with FRANKLIN and others and would use their contacts within the U.S. government and elsewhere to gather sensitive U.S. government information, including classified information relating to the national defense, for subsequent unlawful communication, delivery and transmission to persons not entitled to receive it.
B. It was further part of the conspiracy that FRANKLIN would use his position as a desk officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense to gather information relating to the national defense, for subsequent unlawful communication, delivery and transmission to ROSEN and WEISSMAN and others not entitled to receive it.
C. It was further part of the conspiracy that FRANKLIN, ROSEN and WEISSMAN would meet at locations in the Eastern District of Virginia and elsewhere, to exchange information, including classified information relating to the national defense.
D. It was further part of the conspiracy that FRANKLIN would unlawfully deliver, communicate and transmit classified national defense information in an effort to advance his own personal foreign policy agenda and influence persons within and outside the United States government.
E. It was further part of the conspiracy that ROSEN and WEISSMAN, without lawful authority, would communicate to persons not entitled to receive it, classified information relating to the national defense.
On or about June 11, 1999, WEISSMAN had a conversation with FO-1 and told FO-1 that a “Secret FBI, classified FBI report” on the Khobar Towers bombing had been prepared and that he (WEISSMAN) had gotten this information from three different sources, including United States government officials.
On or about March 13, 2003 , WEISSMAN had a separate conversation with FO-1. WEISSMAN asked FO-1, “Have you talked to Steve about Iran lately?” WEISSMAN related that “we” had heard from a “friend of ours in the Pentagon” about a national intelligence document. WEISSMAN discussed specifics about the classified draft internal policy document and the internal deliberations of United States government officials.
On or about March 18, 2003 , in a conversation with a member of the media about the classified draft internal policy document, ROSEN stated, “I’m not supposed to know this,” and that it was a “considerable story.” He encouraged the member of the media to pursue the story.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:47 pm“In 2001, the FBI discovered new, ‘massive’ Israeli spying operations in the East Coast, including New York and New Jersey, said one former senior U.S. government official. The FBI began intensive surveillance on certain Israeli diplomats and other suspects and was videotaping Naor Gilon, chief of political affairs at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, who was having lunch at a Washington hotel with two lobbyists from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby group. Federal law enforcement officials said they were floored when Franklin came up to their table and sat down.”
The New Jersey connection recalls the infamous incident involving the “dancing Israelis,” arrested on 9/11 when seen leaping and dancing for joy in a park overlooking the Hudson River as the World Trade Center burned. The five detainees were Israeli citizens who worked for a New Jersey moving company, Urban Moving Systems, and were held for months while being repeatedly interrogated as to their knowledge of the events surrounding 9/11. The owner, Dominick Suter, fled to Israel after the feds raided his business, and The Forward speculated that the company was a thinly-disguised Mossad front.
From the Israeli “art students,” who made such a nuisance of themselves at U.S. government buildings in the months prior to 9/11, to the counter-intelligence operation launched by the U.S. that eventually caught Franklin and the AIPAC crowd red-handed, is a straight-line narrative, one long continuous story of unremitting struggle between the U.S. and Israel – on American soil.
In his Fox News four-part series exposing Israel’s secret underground in the U.S., Carl Cameron reported that FBI and other officials claimed any attempt to investigate and expose undue Israeli access to highly sensitive information amounted to “career suicide,” implying that highly-placed moles in policymaking positions effectively covered up the covert activities of their cohorts – much as Alger Hiss and other KGB agents protected their associates and stole nuclear and other secrets from the U.S. and shipped them off to Moscow. In both cases, the motives are the same: ideology, not money, motivates the most effective fifth columnists and spies.
Isn’t it funny how the same people who jump at the chance to tar antiwar public figures as “anti-American” traitors and a “fifth column,” as Andrew Sullivan infamously put it, have nothing to say about the AIPAC spy scandal? These guys are covering up for traitors and spies: you can’t get much more un-American and actively anti-American than that.
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4178
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:49 pmHead of AIPAC boasted about his control of politicians in 1992
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/AIPACClinton.html
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:51 pmSupoenas again? How did that work out last time?
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:51 pmJuly 25, 2006
Madison’s Warning and the Israel Lobby
http://www.antiwar.com/scheuer/?articleid=9400
Mr. Madison never imagined that the two houses of the United States Congress and the federal executive branch could conceivably combine with what today is called a “private interest group” – namely AIPAC – to be exactly the sort of faction that would threaten both “the rights of other citizens” and “the permanent interests of the community.” And yet today, that is precisely the spectacle we behold as the Bush administration and both houses of Congress – Republicans and Democrats – continue a bipartisan, three-decade-old policy of supporting Israel without qualm or stint, and without the least concern about what such support means for the welfare and security of American citizens and their families.
Finally, this two-branch, AIPAC-funded, mid-term-election-minded faction agreed on the weekend to very publicly dispatch large consignments of U.S.-made precision weapons to fill the recently depleted stocks of the Israeli military. All of these actions were, of course, played out against a backdrop of editorial screeches, claiming “Israel is bravely and nobly fighting America’s and/or the West’s war,” from the likes of such noted U.S.-interests-be-damned voices as Ann Coulter, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, William Kristol and the Weekly Standard’s crew of certifiable zanies, and the reliably hysterical FrontPageMag.com.
The real question of moment is not the red-herring of Israel’s right to defend itself, but rather what possible U.S. national interest is at stake that requires America to put its security at risk on Israel’s behalf.
So, how to explain the extraordinary power of America’s tiny but dominant pro-Israel faction? In the context of the enduring alliance between the executive branch, the Congress, AIPAC, and their media acolytes, Alexander Hamilton’s warning in Federalist No. 6 that in the pursuit of private and selfish interests men are “ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious” is a good place to start.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:52 pmUnderstand this entire landscape – in context:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/31/4914/
Attacking Iran for Israel?
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:53 pmBush needs a new ‘yes’ man as Attorney General now more than ever.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:53 pmOh, a subpoena?
You mean like the one she has already ignored…?
Oh, OK. Good luck with that.
Comment by Leftside Annie — November 2, 2007 @ 3:42 pm
No kidding. I mean, I guess they have to give it the old College Try, but it is going exactly nowhere. I dunno, Annie, do they get props for trying or should they just skip the song and dance?
BTW, while I am no fan of the Bush Admin, I think ANY Admin of either party with 15 months to go would work to tangle such a motion up in legalese.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:56 pmDO YOU UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF BEING ABLE TO WIRETAP WITHOUT A WARRANT?
It enables BLACKMAIL.
WHY DOES CONGRESS VOTE WITH ISRAEL ON EVERYTHING?
WHO CONTROLS THE WIRETAPS?
ISRAEL DOES:
LOOK AT THIS ENTIRE 4 PART SERIES ON FOX:
Now can you help me out with a plausible explanation for this:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7545.htm
GET A CLUE!!!!
Jacob “Kobi” Alexander, the Israeli founder of Comverse Technology, one of the leading Mossad companies involved in the terror attacks has fled justice in the United States and escaped to Israel with at least $57 million of ill-gotten gains.
Kobi Alexander should be arrested and interrogated about his knowledge of the events of 9/11. His company acquired the other Mossad firm, Odigo, shortly after it was revealed that Odigo employees had been forewarned of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
This is the tip of the Israeli criminal mafia who is behind the terror attacks on 9/11.
Here is a relevant section from one of my articles about Mossad’s involvement in 9/11, which I posted on RMN on April 7, 2005:
At least two Israel-based employees of Odigo received warnings of an imminent attack in New York City more than two hours before the first plane hit the WTC. Odigo had its U.S. headquarters two blocks from the WTC. The Odigo employees, however, did not pass the warning on to the authorities in New York City, a move that could have saved thousands of lives.
Odigo has a feature called People Finder that allows users to seek out and contact others based on certain demographics, such as Israeli nationality.
Two weeks after 9/11, Alex Diamandis, Odigo’s vice president, reportedly said, “It was possible that the attack warning was broadcast to other Odigo members, but the company has not received reports of other recipients of the message.â€
The Internet address of the sender was given to the FBI, and two months later it was reported that the FBI was still investigating the matter. There have been no media reports since.
Odigo, like many Israeli software companies, is based and has its Research and Development (R&D) center in Herzliya, Israel, the small town north of Tel Aviv, which happens to be where Mossad’s headquarters are located.
Shortly after 9/11, Odigo was taken over by Comverse Technology, another Israeli company. Within a year, five executives from Comverse were reported to have profited by more than $267 million from “insider trading.”
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=68985
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=91721
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/15368320.htm
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:56 pmplunger, I knew I’d see you here.
Which of our “representatives” hasn’t been funded by A I P A C? Probably not too many (both sides of aisle).
“Now there is more evidence on how AIPAC is attempting to influence US Foreign policy in Iran.” That influence isn’t good by the way.
http://www.muzzlewatch.com/?p=170
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:57 pmWAYS, MANNER AND MEANS OF THE CONSPIRACY
Comment by plunger — November 2, 2007 @ 3:47 pm
Hubboy, here we go….watch out TP, Israel has bugged your dog catcher’s office.
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 pmAnd I wonder if Bush will give another free executive privilege pass card to Girlfriday Rice. It seems to be norm for Bush to frisbee out executive privilege to his buddies to cover-up the White House crimes.
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:03 pmThe bottom line in all the blackmail CT stuff– if there are THAT many people in Congress with skeletons SO big that the can be blackmailed to do the President’s bidding, then the country is already doomed. And if there are THAT many members of Congress that are not being blackmailed, but are complicit in a bipartisan effort to boost the President’s agenda, then we are also already doomed. Maybe the memes are really true this time–the Repubs are disciplined and they Dems are spineless. Take your pick.
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:09 pmKeltoi:
That Ways Matter And Means Of The Conspiracy language is copied directly from the court documents.
What’s your problem?
Are you alergic to the word Conspiracy?
It’s a legal term. Look it up.
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:16 pmShe’s more than your typical war criminal. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Sistah Betray us.
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:47 pmKeltoi – it is my considered opinion that ANYONE who still supports this crime fam—er, ADMINISTRATION is either evil or has the awareness of a potted plant.
Which describes you…?
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:52 pmHow can we make certain that this whole administration hangs?
November 2nd, 2007 at 5:10 pmPlunger isn’t all wrong here, folks. His long postings may annoy people, especially frankly, those who would prefer to skim information than actually study it enough to connect the dots. At any rate, the Rice subpeona from an actual court of law, and her subsqeuent testimony just may well prove enlightening.
From George Washington’s farewell speech, some words of wisdom. Read the entire document. I think you will find his words of warning prescient.
“So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.”
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/washing.htm
November 2nd, 2007 at 5:13 pmIt’s called T-R-E-A-S-O-N and the penalty is D-E-A-T-H!
November 2nd, 2007 at 5:13 pmIf she actually appears, Condi will not answer a single, solitary, question unless they open the proceeding with: “Please state your full name”. And then she would probably offer up six minutes of B.S about how “names are open to interpretation”.
On the other hand, perhaps we could use some “aggressive interrogation techniques” to ensure “accurate and timely” information?
November 2nd, 2007 at 6:06 pmSubpoenaes, laws, regulations, traditions, customs, rules, etc., don’t mean beans to this group of criminals. They have their attorneys and their judges in waiting — they also have an enabling congress that allows them to flout anyone or anything that stands in their way.
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:13 pmI smell another executive privilege coming up.
November 3rd, 2007 at 9:16 am