FBI Investigation Questions

Some questions, but few answers, on the FBI probe in The Forward (link below).

Couple of interesting quotes:

According to Jacobs, a former State Department official with broad contacts in Washington's bureaucracy, the notion that American Jews and Pentagon neoconservatives conspired to push the United States into war against Iraq, and possibly also against Iran, is pervasive in Washington's intelligence community. "I strongly believe that this is what's behind the investigation," Jacobs said.

Well Mr. Jacobs, although you try to cloud the issue by changing the details here and there, there is a paper trail a mile long pointing to bias towards Israel by the neocons. You, on the other hand, provide exactly zero evidence to substantiate your conspiracy theory.

Here is a more interesting, and slightly more honest, quote:

"I think that all of us in the Jewish community in general mess up a lot when it comes to Israel advocacy," said one activist with a major Jewish group, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"No one ever gets caught in a criminal mess, because no one intends to do anything criminally," the official said, "but it is routine for us to say: This is our policy on a certain issue, but we must check what the Israelis think. We as a community do it all the time."

Fine. I have no doubt this understates the case, but at least he or she admits that AIPAC skirts the line on a regular basis.

Also, the intent of the person does not matter. If they share classified information or act on behalf of a foreign country they are voilating the law

I would also ask does anyone at AIPAC consider whether the policies they are advocating are good for the United States? Or do you they assume that what is good for Israel is good for the US?

Perhaps we should ask the wounded troops in Iraq about that. We can't, or course, ask the dead ones.

See the article here.