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1. Why promise not to write about it? There are plenty of reasons. During the Foreign Agents investigation, which covered many countries, investigators like Judge Sifton and Walter Pincus were aggressively obtaining records under subpoena, making lawyers mad, getting tax returns from the IRS, and keeping lines of communication open with the Justice Department for potential prosecutions. They also stumbled across CIA front companies operating out of SE Asian and had to wind back their investigation of those after run-ins. One of the reasons Pincus landed the job with Fulbright, which is evident in the documentary record, was for his in-depth news reporting about corrupt foreign agents working out of the Caribbean. I think there was a mutual (Fulbright/Pincus) concern that a reporter brought in to investigate not leak privileged information, particularly with so many white shoe law firms representing foreign agents and making attorney client privilege claims involved.
2. Why would Pincus hold back about writing facts about I/P? Pincus knows how the lobby really operates and what its capable of. I think he judged (accurately) that it was better for his reporting career to work around them, and he's far from alone in doing that. The claim isn't that he made a promise never to write about the Israel lobby, leveraging his inside knowledge. The claim is that he probably found it in his interest not to. If you look around establishment media for an elite and informed reporter covering the lobby with the warranted scrutiny it merits, you'll find there aren't any.
3. Pincus wrote inaccurate AIPAC espionage case coverage? Yes, but in 2006. Pincus, who had relatively recently received a law degree, wrote that the standard of evidence needed to convict Rosen and Weissman was much higher than it actually was, misleading readers. When called on it, it took a month of fighting with the WAPO ombudsman to get him to correct his flawed story.
link to irmep.org
4. "Can it be verified through other sources that Fulbright allegedly asked him not to write about the investigations? Pincus writing inaccurately about the Aipac espionage case would sure bring that claim into question." Apples and oranges. The Pincus note in the National Archives is about not talking about the *1960s* foreign agents investigation, not the 2005 AIPAC espionage investigations. Two different things. Can the Pincus note currently be verified through other sources? No. But anyone who wants to can go crack the boxes that have been declassified at the National Archives.
Pincus did incredible work on the investigation. But there were many Senators on the Foreign Relations Committee who wondered where Isaiah Kenen was getting his funding for massive lobbying and PR campaigns.
When they started tracing it back to the Jewish Agency, Kenen promptly fled the country for a year.
There is a note in the Archives of Pincus promising Fulbright not to write about the Foreign Agents investigation. Maybe he still feels bound by that.
Walter Pincus has more insight into the Israel Lobby than any other American journalist. That is because, as a special investigator on Sen JW Fulbright's staff during the investigation of foreign agents in the United States, he could see how the Israeli government, through the Jewish Agency and AIPAC's parent organization the AZC, were basically writing legislation for Congress, or as he said,
"I think this is a good example of a foreign principal — the Israeli Government– using the U.S. Senate to promote its aims.”
His best investigative work is still classified at the National Archives where it may be fully released in 2013. The investigation was launched because the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was worried about "Lavon style" overseas Israeli provocations influencing US policy.
Since leaving Fulbright's staff in the 1960's, Pincus has mostly avoided this issue, when he wasn't writing inaccurate coverage of the AIPAC espionage case. That he's taking it up again is probably a sign that he's getting ready to retire.
Those interested in that infamous "Memo" where AIPAC coordinates allegedly "independent" PACs (many of which it set up) can see it here:
link to irmep.org
There were decades of legal action, up to the Supreme Court, but judges finally ruled that coordinating PACs wasn't AIPAC's "major purpose" so there were never any consequences.
link to wrmea.org
A State Department memo where AIPAC exec Amitay imperiled US national security by obtaining classified missile sale information is here:
link to irmep.org
Normal Americans do jail time for that kind of thing. Not AIPAC alumni.
Just think, if we didn't have AIPAC originating campaign corruption, such as former director Michal Goland fixing California races so Alan Cranston could win, we wouldn't have inexplicable blank checks to Israel, such as the "Cranston Ammendment" loan guarantee laws.
link to articles.latimes.com
Americans need to face harsh facts. Our legal infrastructure has been unable to properly regulate AIPAC & Co as they stomp around accumulating power through illegal means.
Total capture.
There were never any charges. The foreign agent/espionage investigation fizzled out in the late 1960s. When AG Edward Levi restarted it in 1976 (and expanded the scope to include obstruction by US gov't officials) there were already serious considerations that the statute of limitations had/or soon would run out.
Hopefully the book reveals that the larger ecosystem in which Shapiro operated thwarted any sort of prosecution or accountability of enabling organizations. Unlike a Stewart Nozette or even Jonathan Pollard, Shapiro was so well-connected that putting him on trial would have been tantamount to putting Zionism on the witness stand.
Glad you bought the book. Kindle version has bonus features.
--grant
The Treasury Department is one of the most intransparent and irresponsible agencies in the government when it comes to Middle East matters. They refuse to respond to FOIAs about the funding flows to illegal West Bank settlements. Even Senate Foreign Relations queries about why AIPAC was granted tax-exempt status received only cursory and dismissive responses.
As in previous cases involving illegal activity in the US, the following arguments will be advanced behind closed doors. Was the PR effort done in the name of advancing Israel's security, misguided or not? If insiders argue that it was, this case, like so many before it, will be swept under the rug. Attempts to find out what happened will be quashed for a half century.
An alternative to registering AIPAC would be for Attorney General Eric Holder to declare AIPAC exempt from it. In a way, affirming AIPAC's de facto status as essentially above the law now, rather than waiting for the next crisis, would be the most honest thing to do...
link to turcopolier.typepad.com
-gfs
Great analysis, Wolman. Here is one perspective of that wonderful FTA negotiating process: link to irmep.org
Here is the graph of the $10 billion US deficit growing from an initial balanced trade relationship: link to IRmep.org
Back in the mid-1980s, no insider ever referred to the US-Israel agreement as "free trade." They called it what it was, "Duty Free Treatment for U.S. Imports from Israel." Of course, the lobby's position has always been that the agreement was a vital US interest and "1985 affords American products the opportunity to compete on an equal basis with European goods, which all have free access to Israel's domestic markets." So sez the bard:
link to jewishvirtuallibrary.org
Guess that's what made disenfranchising 70 opposing US industries and workers okay. The propaganda truly never stops. Calling a cat a mouse indeed.
-g
AIPAC's parent organization's (the American Zionist Council) 1962-1963 plan for Public Relations is still operative. Perhaps slot in "cultivation of bloggers" in Section 1, and "Podcasters" in Section 2 (TV, Radio and Films). Section 10, "Visitors to Israel" is still a core program. "Provide suitable arrangements in Israel for handling of American visitors."
link to irmep.org
The cartoons appeared in various editions of the Near East Report, which was originally owned by founder Isaiah Kenen, later put under AIPAC's roof and published by Near East Research, and subsequently spun off to the American Israel Education Foundation (the free travel agency for Congress members looking to vacation in Israel). Fulbright balked at this kind of stuff landing on his desk, free of charge, and sent to all top editors and influencers AIPAC could find, along with the membership base. Why? Because it was subsidized by the Jewish Agency, and many in Congress thought foreign aid was being recycled into US lobbying.
link to irmep.org
These Near East Report cartoons were originally examined within the context of Israeli funds laundered into US lobbying and publicity in the book "America's Defense Line" by Grant Smith, with an intro by Philip Weiss.
link to amazon.com
GFS
Actually, you don't have to Photoshop many Israel-lobbying cartoons to find them amusing. Sometimes I wish AIPAC would drop the pseudo-intellectualism and go back to publishing what they REALLY think in the Near East Report....
Arabs as subhumans. Arabs as inherently terrorist, underdeveloped and incapable of making peace. Syria as a powerful puppeteer, pulling strings from behind the scenes...Well, maybe *that* one's a bit dated now.
link to irmep.org
Technion is one of many fronts for the Israeli nuclear weapons program. A 1987 Pentagon-sponsored study conducted by the Institute for Defense Analyses found Technion University participated in designing Israeli nuclear missile re-entry vehicles. US officials also claimed that Technion scientists worked at the Dimona complex, which led to a 1989 denial of a supercomputer export license.
What a joke.
GFS
Americans should be VERY concerned about Saban. His tax advisers arranged an illegal dodge to keep him from paying any capital gains on his sale to Disney in 2001.
link to accountingtoday.com
Saban claimed ignorance of the shelter when Congress called him in to testify. His tax adviser, who is doing all the jail time, claimed otherwise.
Likewise his offer to buy Hillary some of her very own super delegates with a tax exempt donation miraculously did not result in election law violation indictments.
link to democraticunderground.com
Saban uses tax exempt donations and financial shenanigans to saddle the average Americans with huge war and aid liabilities. (There used to be a great video of Martin "Lock and Load" Indyk singing his praises while pimping for the Iraq war, but Brookings wisely deleted it). Saban's many dealings with the Israeli government are in-transparent, though broadly known, yet he refuses to register as a foreign agent. Rich, but slippery, he's kinda Abraham Feinberg and Nahum Bernstein rolled into one slick media package.
link to irmep.org
link to irmep.org
Average Americans may not know Haim, but they're paying the taxes he doesn't.
Thanks. For an analysis on selective FARA enforcement (Pakistan v Israel) please see the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs at:
link to wrmea.com
-GFS
The AIPAC registration complaint submitted November 4, 2009 to the head of the Foreign Agents Registration Act section, Heather Hunt, is available online at:
link to irmep.org
It documents AIPAC's emergence from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and foreign agent activity in great detail.
Eric Holder turned down an opportunity to meet with a delegation to discuss it during AIPAC's confab in May, so there was a protest at the Justice Department instead.
-GFS
Josh Block and AIPAC are really milking his "former spokesman" role. He left the mothership right before the AIPAC porn scandal hit:
link to google.com
Now he's the go-to flack for a rapid, ever prickly AIPAC response. AIPAC doesn't have to take any responsibility for what Block says, he gets to broadcast from some obscure outpost. Nice work all around, if you can get it.
link to google.com
Arlen Specter forwarded information from Shapiro's slippery lawyer that he hoped would lead to a formal statement by the NRC that Shapiro had not been involved in diversion. The NRC wisely declined to issue such an exoneration.
link to irmep.org
Unfortunately for Shapiro, his Arnold and Porter lawyers tried to deceive the NRC about the key point—the missing uranium—using dubious data. A 2001 Energy Department report confirmed that NUMEC had the highest HEU loss (roughly double) of any player in the industry before 1968. Perhaps if Shapiro hadn't partnered his company with an Israeli front for the Israeli nuclear weapons program and palled around with Rafi Eitan and Avraham Hermoni so much, he could have gotten his NMTI award. His only hope now is a private inquiry from Netanyahu. That's the way Arnon Milchan got out of being charged for smuggling nuclear triggers...Perhaps Eric Holder's phone is already ringing.
One of the reasons Bronner can get away with these outrages is that the donor and taxpayer funded, self-appointed "media critics" at NPR (Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone at the hugely influential "On the Media") refuse to do their jobs.
Last week, Bob huffed and puffed about an NPR contractor who was cut off for being at Occupy Wall Street. But Bob and Brooke almost certainly follow the much bigger story about Bronner. I think everyone on Mondoweiss who cares about the meaing of Bronner should ask Bob and Brooke to cover this story in a serious, credible way. That includes interviewing Max Blumenthal about his findings. His sheepish withdrawal from the panel is a hook for hearing about this on the next show. It is important.
link to onthemedia.org
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Focusing only on elite members of the Israel lobby, there's a major factor that's been left out: blanket immunity from criminal prosecution.
Abraham Feinberg had it. An unconnected Joe without friends on the bench would have been prosecuted for fraud in avoiding the WWII draft. A mafia don would have been prosecuted for arms smuggling. Not Abe. He existed on the higher plane.
link to irmep.org
Israel Lobby Archive
Same goes for Nahum Bernstein. Most Americans don't have NYC police officers on their payroll, and a law partner who is a District Attorney. But these assets helped Bernstein when he openly funded violations of the Neutrality Act, conducted espionage on behalf of Israel against Arab UN diplomats, and established smuggling front companies.
link to irmep.org
Israel Lobby Archive
It's not a matter of historic curiosity either. Arnon Milchan (nuclear trigger smuggling), Marc Rich (illegal trade with Iran), Haim Saban (tax evasion through Quellos, pledging $1 to manipulate 2008 superdelegates), Jane Harmon (obstruction of justice in Aipac case).
Col Larry Franklin, offered a bribe to flee the US to quash the AIPAC espionage case was right. There is a group of people who truly are "beyond good and evil." Perhaps if the Justice Department did its job....
Yep, the file name is misspelled.
But again, does it seem at all weird that Ynet gets Halpern's name wrong? When Douglas Bloomfield (former AIPACker's) heavy involvement in that espionage caper came out,
link to irmep.org
...his byline was suddenly changed to D. Bloomfield.
link to jpost.com
Do such small tactical spelling changes absolve responsibility? What's going on?
It's a classic worth repeating. It's great that Americans can receive an economics lecture from the likes of Halpern, without laughing out loud.
Wonder why Ynet just couldn't seem to spell his last name correctly, while using Danny when other news outlets use the shorter "Dan". Oh the mysteries that continue to unfold....
link to google.com
"Danny Halperin Israel's former economic attaché in Washington"
"Danny" doesn't mention his own specialty, economic espionage. In 1984 he stole a classified US International Trade Commission compilation of US business secrets and gave it to AIPAC to pass the US Israel Free Trade Agreement. Here is his FBI interview, which better explains how things sometimes REALLY work...
link to irmep.org
Walter Pincus was lead investigator for Senator J. W. Fulbright's hearings on the activities of the agents of foreign principles back in the early 1960s. He knew the score way back then. Consider the young lion's outraged memo to Fulbright (declassified in 2010) complaining about how Israel was basically writing legislation for Congress while simultaneously censoring the key Fulbright findings about Israeli agents influencing the US through money laundering and subterfuge.
link to irmep.org
(Israel Lobby Archive)
"I think this is a good example of a foreign principal -- the Israeli Government-- using the U.S. Senate to promote its aims."
Reading Pincus today, you'd think he'd forgotten everything he learned at Fulbright's knee. What a shame.
GFS
If the PLO is astroturfing US campuses, they need to get their "student activists" registered as foreign agents of the PLO at the Justice Department.
Following the Jewish Agency/stealth US Israel lobby group support model isn't very smart, if that's what they're doing. Palestinians simply don't have the demonstrated legal immunity Israel lobbyists enjoy. If they're ordered to register and refuse, they likely would be prosecuted as harshly as Pakistani Kashmir activists.
link to wrmea.com
GFS
It's been worse. Mortimer Kroll used to broadcast NY Times radio back in the day. The Jewish Agency funneled money to him through AIPAC's parent organization, the American Zionist Council. The Justice Department ordered AZC to register as a foreign agent in 1962. Under an agreement, they were allowed to file only a "representative" 3 month disclosure of people receiving payola/grants/bribes, etc. The DOJ kept the AZC disclosure classified until 2008.
Kroll was on the AZC summary payola list:
link to irmep.org
There are a million ways to pay people off. That crude effort no doubt has been surpassed.. For the record, Vivian Schiller of NPR was interested in this story, Brooke and Bob Garfield of "On the Media" were apparently not...
G.
Most interesting is NYT chose Douglas Bloomfield to make the response. Few Americans know that back when Israeli minister of economics Dan Halpern passed AIPAC an important, stolen classified document about the US-Israel "free trade" agreement, Bloomfield was the AIPAC employee who made an illegal copy before returning it to the US Trade Representative.
link to irmep.org
That stolen document is only now being declassified so that Americans can see why the Israeli government and AIPAC just had to get their hands on it.
Traffick classified information against the lobby, do time. Traffick for the lobby, become an NYT pundit.
GFS.
Returning to a grand old tradition. A CIA report detailed Adolph Schwimmer's false-flag operations with smuggled C-46 Commandos in Europe and his Jewish Agency funded "Service Airways":
"The history of a single operation undertaken by an aircraft owned by Service Airways is here cited as typical of the traffic which has now grown to large proportions. A C-46 air transport carrying a Jewish American crew departed from the US for Italy early in March, 1948. The crew obtained clearance for the aircraft and US visas for themselves by false statements and the exhibition of letters from their company. This correspondence implied that a contract existed with an Italian aircraft manufacturing concern for the conversion of several aircraft from cargo to passenger accommodation. The aircraft took off from a New Jersey airport and was next reported at Geneva, Switzerland, having flown the route by way of Greenland, Iceland, and France. The crew, dressed in US Army uniforms without insignia, permitted only the Swiss airport superintendent to board the plane. Secrecy evidenced by the crew, and the fact that they were wearing uniform caused the Swiss official to believe that this was a US Air Force operation and no inquiry was made other than to learn that the aircraft's next destination was Rome."
"Clandestine Air Transport Operations: Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense," Central Intelligence Agency, May 28, 1948, Declassified and released on September 27, 2001, CIA Freedom of Information Act electronic reading room
GFS
It is questionable that just because AIEF says the funds they gave AIPAC were for" education" that it was okay. If AIPAC had not received that transfer, it would have had to report declining revenues for the first time in a long time. Also, if donor #1 ($50 million) is really just some new bundling entity (there are no other obviously affiliated AIPAC shells, except for WINEP and AEIF), what other purpose does it serve other than hiding the distribution curve of the 2,000 individuals who are the key funders. Something is clearly wrong...
Okay, here's part of what happened. On its 2010 form 990, the American Israel Education Foundation declared that it transferred $13,503,472 (of presumably tax deductible funds, which helped donors reduce their payments to Uncle Sam).....to the.....wait for it......American Israel Public Affairs Committee....for "education" purpuses.
Since AIPAC is a 501(c)(4) (and donations are not tax deductible) that raises a lot of questions....
Excellent research, Phil. I think the ruse that AIEF is in any way functionally separate from AIPAC has gone on too long. Something VERY fishy is going on. AIPAC, which used to list some 1,700 donors giving more than $5,000, in its last IRS filing said there were only two major donors. One gave fifty million, another gave $13 million, in non tax-deductible contributions.
Right.
link to original.antiwar.com
g.
Sorry the audio tag didn't work (my signature is screwed up as well, it's Grant Smith).
Steve Roberts is a frequent host/guest on the Diane Rehm show, usually presented as a syndicated columnist. Here's the transcript of what I found amusing enough to post as an audio file:
Steve Roberts, Syndicated Columnist: "The big solution that is supposed to come out of the Baker-Hamilton commission is somehow expanded Middle East discussions, bring in Iran, bring in Syria. He made the point that Iran has been extremely recalcitrant on its nuclear program. Syria has been equally recalcitrant if not more so. They helped assassinate a leading Christian, the evidence is pretty clear, they helped assassinate a leading Christian politician just last week...
Diane Rehm, host: "And here's an email from Grant who says "your guest stated that Syria was involved in the assassination of a 'Christian Politician'. There is no hard evidence of that. Is it the Israeli propaganda hour now?""
Steve Roberts, Syndicated Columnist: "That's a very unfair comment, the "Israeli propaganda hour." If anybody in this government doubts, or any thinking person doubts that Syria was involved in the assassination of Pierre Gemayel, I'd like to know that..."
Diane Rehm, host: "I wonder if we do have any proof?"
Steve Roberts, Syndicated Columnist: "I didn't say there was proof. But there is an international investigation going on into the assassination of Rafic Hariri, and other politicians. Syria has done everything to try to block that investigation. Every bit of evidence we have, in the long history here, is of a violent intervention in Lebanon, and I don't know anybody who knows anything about that region, who doubts that Syria is involved in that assassination. It has nothing to do with Israeli propaganda."
[audio=link to irmep.org
The $36 million is the present value of what the Jewish Agency spent on US PR in the early 1960's.
What the Atlantic won't publish, is many times as important as what it does.
"ALI: Briefly describe your initial journey towards publication at the Atlantic Monthly. Why did they ultimately reject the draft, and how did you find a publication home at London Review of Books?
MEARSHEIMER: Stephen and I decided in early 2002 to think seriously about writing a piece on The Israeli Lobby and U.S. foreign policy. Then, in the fall of 2002, we were commissioned by The Atlantic to write that piece, and we began working on it. We were slowed down by the fact the Iraq war was about to take place. We couldn't write about it while it was still happening, because the Lobby was involved in pushing that war. So, we didn't get a draft of the piece to the Atlantic until the Spring of 2004. After they saw the initial draft, they were very happy with it and asked us to make a number of changes, which we did. We submitted the second draft in January 2005, and shortly thereafter they rejected it. We believe they rejected it because they came to believe the subject was too controversial and would cause problems."
link to counterpunch.org
It would be very, very difficult, but the grounds for doing so are undeniable.
It is interesting that Thomas Dine, the former executive director of AIPAC who was also involved in the theft of government property/economic espionate investigated by the FBI in 1984, link to IRmep.org
went on to consult in a big way for Al Hurra:
link to propublica.org
How could that network ever achieve any credibility if all it does is function as a kind of JTA - Arab Market? What a waste of taxpayer money.
The interesting thing about the Conference is it's location (visible in the Whois query, 633 New York Avenue. This is the very same address as the World Zionist Organization - American Section (An Israeli foreign agent that spends around $10 million a year in the US).
The WZO in Jerusalem was revealed by Israeli prosecutor Thalia Sasson in 2005 as being at the very center of illegal Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank. Shimon Peres estimated that up to $50 billion was laundered into illegal settlement construction. In the United States, the WZO/Conference of Presidents run "education" initiatives include organizing rabbis to effectively campaign for war on Iran (as reported on Tikkun Olam).
It is a mystery why the Conference/WZO are running clandestine propaganda ops about law in the United States instead of facing warranted criminal charges over illegal settlements and the US funds laundered into them.