This Op-Ed in the Times, bless its heart, says that Eric Holder, the likely AG nominee, should be closely scrutinized by the Congress because when he was at Justice in 2001 he completely overrode the views of the U.S. Attorney in New York in carrying his pardon recommendation to Bill Clinton.
Then, on Jan. 19, 2001, Mr. Holder delivered his pardon assessment to
the White House, telling Beth Nolan, the White House counsel, that he
was “neutral leaning favorable” on the Rich pardon. His decision, he
added, was influenced by the support of Ehud Barak, the Israeli prime
minister.
The writer is a former Wash Post reporter, George Lardner. He gives only one line to the Israel angle. Barak had more impact than the US attorney, why? Oh, obliquity, thy name is media! Now will the Times unpack this statement of influence?
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You might want to brush up on the intrigues of Marc Rich – courtesy of Wayne Madsen, a former NSA agent:
Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby (Leibowitz) has been a long-serving intelligence agent for Israel's Mossad, according to a veteran CIA "official cover" officer who spoke to the Wayne Madsen Report on deep background. The CIA's Clandestine Service has, over the years, gathered a tremendous amount of intelligence on Libby's activities on behalf of Mossad.
Libby served as the lawyer for Switzerland- based American fugitive financier Marc Rich, aka Mark David Reich, who is also known to be an Israeli intelligence asset and someone Israel relies upon for missions that demand "plausible deniability" on the part of the Mossad. Rich heads up a worldwide empire of dummy corporations, foundations, and numbered bank accounts that have been involved in sanctions busting and weapons smuggling. The nations involved include Israel, United States, United Kingdom, Iran, Panama, Colombia, Russia, Iraq (under Saddam Hussein), Cuba, Spain, Nigeria, Singapore, Bolivia, Jamaica, Bermuda, France, Italy, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Australia, Argentina, Peru, Ireland, Zambia, Sw
In 1983, the then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York urged jail time for Rich and his partner Pincus Green for racketeering. The name of that U.S. Attorney is Rudolph Giuliani. Giuliani, who is now running for president, praised Bush's decision to commute Libby's jail sentence. After Clinton 's pardon of Rich, Giuliani said he was "shocked." Paul Klebnikov, the Moscow editor for Forbes' Russian edition, wrote about the connections of Rich to Russian gangsters like Boris Berezovsky, a business partner of Neil Bush, in his book "Godfather of the Kremlin." Klebnikov was shot to death gangland-style on a Moscow street on July 9, 2004.
Libby not only provided the Mossad with a top agent inside the White House but also an important conduit for the Russian-Israeli Mafia.
Libby arranged for Rich's eleventh hour pardon by outgoing President Bill Clinton in January 2001. The pardon of Rich was urged in a phone call to Clinton by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, as well as Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert.
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ON ABE FOXMAN AND THE MARC RICH SCANDAL (2001)
The ADL's national director won a pardon from President Clinton for billionaire Marc Rich in 2001, while letting Jonathan Pollard rot in jail.
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To the Editor of Newsday:
The behavior of ADL national director Abe Foxman in arranging the presidential pardon for Marc Rich is truly outrageous. The ADL refused to lift a finger for Jonathan Pollard, a true hero who risked (and received) life imprisonment for providing U.S. ally Israel with information vital to its survival. Yet the lure of cash from a cheap con man, Mr. Rich, caused the ADL director to exert his lobbying clout on the highest levels of our government for an ignoble cause…….
ENTIRE LETTER –
http://lyndonlarouchewatch.org/foxman.htm
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[NOTE - Verizon workers fired over breach of Obama's cell phone records. Was it Verizon or AMDOCS (of Israel) that was behind it?]
Verizon fires workers over Obama cell phone records breachStory Highlights
Source wouldn't say how many fired, but says Verizon considers matter closed
Obama spokesman says transition team was told about breach Wednesday.
(CNN) — Verizon Wireless has fired employees connected to a breach of records from a cell phone used by President-elect Barack Obama this year, a Verizon source said Friday……
Verizon reported the breach Thursday, and Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said the transition team had been notified Wednesday. Gibbs said the president-elect no longer uses that phone, which has been inactive for months…..
The source also said the employees in question could not have read text messages, if Obama sent or received them, and would not have been able to access the content of any voice mail messages, although they would have been able to see whether any had been left…..
Ari Schwartz of the Center for Democracy and Technology said the employees probably had access to the dates and times of calls, the length of calls and the telephone numbers of those Obama spoke with…..
Verizon Wireless, meanwhile, has launched a separate internal investigation to determine whether Obama's information was shared only among employees or whether "the information of our customer had in any way been compromised outside our company, and this investigation continues," McAdam said in an internal e-mail obtained by CNN.
The company has alerted "the appropriate federal law enforcement authorities," McAdam said…….
ENTIRE ARTICLE – http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/21/obama.cell.phone/index.html
"Ari Schwartz of the Center for Democracy and Technology said the employees probably had access to the dates and times of calls, the length of calls and the telephone numbers of those Obama spoke with….."
THIS IS PRECISELY THE INFO HANDLED UNDER CONTRACT BY ISRAEL'S AMDOCS (NOW RENAMED)
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The Mossad decided to ‘trade out’ Hanssen in order to keep the FBI pre-occupied trying to ferret out a mole within their own ranks and take the heat off Rahm Emanuel and the Clinton White House over the knowledge that Israel had penetrated White House communications.
November 20, 2008 — Hanssen’s confessions clued Opus Dei and Mossad in on his espionage for Moscow.
from waynemadsenreport.com
On November 10, 2008, WMR reported on the compromise to Israel’s Mossad of the espionage being carried out on behalf of Moscow by former FBI counter-intelligence chief Robert Hanssen and how that information came to the attention of Bill Clinton’s policy adviser Rahm Emanuel.
We reported: “WMR has learned that Hanssen also spied for Mossad at the same time he was spying for the Russians and that this information was known to Emanuel. WMR has learned that the FBI established that there was a relationship between Hanssen, a Chicago native whose father was a Chicago police officer, and Emanuel, also a native of Chicago. The Mossad decided to ‘trade out’ Hanssen to the FBI’s counter-intelligence division in order to keep the bureau pre-occupied trying to ferret out a mole within their own ranks and take the heat off Emanuel and the Clinton White House over the knowledge that Israeli intelligence had penetrated White House communications and this fact was related by Clinton to White House intern Monica Lewinsky during a phone conversation. Hanssen was convicted of espionage after he was pressured into not going ahead with a jury trial. Hanssen was warned that his wife would be denied his FBI pension if he insisted on a full jury trial. He is serving a life sentence in solitary confinement at the Federal Supermax Prison in Colorado.” ……….
ENTIRE ARTICLE -
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/johnlewisdickerson/gGxtdB
ORIGINAL SOURCE – http://www.waynemadsenreport.com
I don't accept the premise of this post – Clinton was going to pardon Marc Rich whether his advisers were for it or not. No doubt it was a favor to the Israelis, probably a consolation prize for not pardoning Pollard, but the influence would have been directly on Clinton alone.
I refuse to take Madsen seriously while he is running a subscribers-only racket on the strength of his supposed 'revelations'. For instance, since he polices copyright infringements, you won't find the full text of this online anywhere:
http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/wayne-madsens-subscribers-only-scoop/
and if he sees the lin,k he will probably demand I remove even this bare synopsis. This approach on his part does not inspire trust in the veracity of the 'revelations' themselves.
As an average American, all I see here is the negative influence of
Israel-Firsters.
Israel is a safe haven for any Jew around the world. It's as if Italy was a safe haven for any Mafia Don. Marc Rich? There is something deeply wrong with Israel's law of return. In the name of dead innocent Jews, their ethnic gangsters are free.
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