[Peace-discuss] Stand with Bibi?

[Szoke, Ron]

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From: "Szoke, Ron" <r-szoke at illinois.edu<mailto:r-szoke at illinois.edu>>
Date: January 2, 2016 at 1:13:27 PM CST
To: Rebecca P. <rebecca.privin28 at att.net<mailto:rebecca.privin28 at att.net>>
Subject: Still stand with Bibi?

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In a bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal, it is revealed that Israeli officials, including Bibi Netanyahu, bribed members of Congress to vote against the Iran deal. This information comes from the NSA program of surveillance on “friendly” countries.

When Edward Snowden revealed that we spied on friendly leaders, a great hue and cry went up about the legalities and the ethics. In 2012, President Obama gave an order curtailing this program. However, he did not eliminate it entirely. Certain people were still kept under surveillance, most notably Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey, and Bibi. Because, as the NSA has said, “how could you not?”

Stepped-up NSA eavesdropping revealed to the White House how Mr. Netanyahu and his advisers had leaked details of the U.S.-Iran negotiations—learned through Israeli spying operations—to undermine the talks; coordinated talking points with Jewish-American groups against the deal; and asked undecided lawmakers what it would take to win their votes, according to current and former officials familiar with the intercepts.

Everyone has declined to comment on the activities. Of course they have. Because everyone does it to everyone else. The history of US-Israeli intelligence “relations” has a long history of both agencies getting caught spying on the other.

So, how did the NSA find out about the bribery?

In 2011, Obama and Bibi diverged over Iran. Bibi was secretly preparing for war, while the President had begun secret negotiations with Iran.

After it was determined that Bibi wasn’t going to attack, they still kept up the surveillance because of the negotiations. They wanted to make sure that Israel wasn’t going to torpedo the deal. This was done with knowledge of the members of the various Intelligence Committees.

NSA intercepts convinced the White House last year that Israel was spying on negotiations<http://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-spied-on-iran-talks-1427164201> under way in Europe. Israeli officials later denied targeting U.S. negotiators<http://www.wsj.com/articles/spy-virus-linked-to-israel-targeted-hotels-used-for-iran-nuclear-talks-1433937601>, saying they had won access to U.S. positions by spying only on the Iranians.

By late 2014, White House officials knew Mr. Netanyahu wanted to block the emerging nuclear deal but didn’t know how.

On Jan. 8, John Boehner<http://topics.wsj.com/person/B/John-Boehner/6252>, then the Republican House Speaker, and incoming Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agreed on a plan. They would invite Mr. Netanyahu to deliver a speech to a joint session of Congress. A day later, Mr. Boehner calledRon Dermer, the Israeli ambassador, to get Mr. Netanyahu’s agreement<http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/12/29/the-phone-call-that-upended-u-s-israel-relations/>.

Despite NSA surveillance, Obama administration officials said they were caught off guard when Mr. Boehner announced the invitation on Jan. 21.

Soon after, Israel’s lobbying campaign against the deal went into full swing on Capitol Hill, and it didn’t take long for administration and intelligence officials to realize the NSA was sweeping up the content of conversations with lawmakers.

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