ADL Asking the FBI to Investigate Leak in Pentagon Case

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WASHINGTON - After nearly two weeks of rumor and innuendo surrounding an FBI probe into the possibility of an Israeli spy in the Pentagon, the Anti-Defamation League has formally requested that the FBI get to the bottom of who leaked news of the investigation to the press.

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Sources close to the Pentagon tell The New York Sun that members of the staff of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith have been harassed since the probe was leaked. They have received anonymous phone calls that play radio broadcasts in the background announcing the arrests of Israeli spies. In other cases, intelligence briefings on Iran have deliberately included information on Israel that would normally not be included. Last week, the staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff refused for two days to share classified papers with officials working for Mr. Feith, sources say. Cooperation between the two offices only resumed after individuals at the highest levels of the Pentagon ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to cooperate.

The FBI is expected to interview members of Mr. Feith's staff today. The focus so far of the bureau's inquiry is a Pentagon analyst, Lawrence Franklin, who specializes on Iran. Mr. Franklin has been alleged in press reports based on anonymous sources to have attempted to pass a draft policy paper on Iran to two members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, who in turn gave the information to Israel. Aipac has denied any wrongdoing.

NY Sun article
A bit more here

edit: links fixed. sorry!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Of course

So when we cave, like we did with the USS Liberty and always do, and declare they can't find any evidence without ever really looking, the ADL will charge anti-Semitism and make sure no one thinks about saying anything bad about Israel ever again.

[johnfunk]

2. New York Sun: Libelous, money-losing Neocon rag

If you want to know the truth about the New York Sun, ask NYC's former public advocate Mark Green. It's a libelous smear sheet to which one should pay no heed.

[lil-petunia]

3. even if true, it is just like the ADL

to try to spin the story away from the true culprits. Their typical modus operendi.

[dqueue]

4. Still, some interesting info...

It's interesting that the Joint Chiefs broke off sharing, albeit temporarily, with the chicken hawks in Feith's office. Also, the conversation between Franklin and Chalabi's aide seems akin to obstruction and conspiracy.

[DulceDecorum]

5. The Plame leak seems to have been forgotten.

I guess this is so much more important.
We really need to find out just who owns that loose lip
that sank Larry Franklin's ship.

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6. hmm...

Laura Rozen, on her blog, has alluded that the Plame leak may somehow tie into this investigation, which makes it that much more damning that bushco is stifling this investigation.