White House desperate: Falsely accuses Israel of spying
The White House has gotten desperate and now falsely accuses Israel of spying
There is a headline the Wall Street Journal today “Israel Spied on Iran Nuclear Talks With U.S.” U.S. News and World Report in an article “Boehner ‘Baffled’ by Reports Israel Spied on Iran Talks: Israeli defense minister says the United States has not complained to them” states, “House Speaker John Boehner says he’s “baffled” by reports that Israel spied on negotiators in the sensitive talks over Iran’s nuclear program. Boehner told reporters Tuesday that he was not aware of any spying. Israel’s defense minister Moshe Yaalon, a former military chief and head of military intelligence, says the U.S. has never complained to Israel about the spying alleged in the published report.”
The Obama administration is responsible for this mis-characterization in order to attack Israel and give Democrat Senators a reason not to vote on the Corker-Mendez bill in April. The Corker-Menendez bill gives Congress the right to vote on the Iranian nuclear arms agreement rather than the UN.
The Iranian talks have been going on for over a year among the P5+1 nations. Israel, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States and others that will be most affected by the agreement have been excluded. However each of the nations involved including the U.S. have been leaking information throughout the process.
Israel, Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States have had access to the discussions through various participants among the P5+1 nations all along. Undoubtedly not all the participants considered the discussions to be secret.The White House is aware of this and it knows where so many people are involved the discussions could not be kept secret in any event, nor should they be. The White House has admitted this.
What Obama is upset about is that Israel and undoubtedly others from the Gulf States have shared some of this information with Congress and the Senate. If it were not for the fact we have an Orwellian White House that has chosen to keep Congress in the dark, Obama would have been sharing details of the negotiations with Congress and Senators all along.
The fact that Congress is no longer in the dark and the deal is so bad is a major problem for Obama. Picking a fight with Israel and falsely accusing it of spying is untrue but emboldens Iran and may help to keep Democrat Senators in line so they don’t exercise their right to approve or disapprove the deal.
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