Nightline, Spy in the Pentagon

[TacticalPeek]

Chris Bury

Just a heads up.

:)

[Cush]

1. bah, between this and Bill Maher

guess i could tape one

[NYC]

2. Thank you.

I would have missed it.

[TacticalPeek]

3. Investigation has gone on over a year.

Arrests possible next week.

Serious charges. Thirty-year desk guy for Iran, mid-level policy.


BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[kanrok]

6. Oh shit!

The repukes will blame it on Clinton. After all, Clinton was alive when the spy was hired.

[Stephanie]

4. On now - ARRESTS next week!

Organized "conferences" for Wolfie

[Catherine Vincent]

5. Thanks for letting us know.

[TacticalPeek]

7. He was organizing cleric conferences for Wolfewitz.

Martha Radditz reporting from Pentagon.


And AIPAC denied everything in a statement.

[eleny]

12. Who is it????

[girl gone mad]

13. Harold Rhode. n/t

[eleny]

15. About Rhode

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Harold_Rhode

[Stephanie]

18. Sounds like a lunatic

Harold Rhode is a Foreign Affairs Specialist in the Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense.<1>
According to Jason Vest's September 2, 2002, article "The Men From JINSA and CSP," Harold Rhode and Andrew Marshall, from the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, "actively tinker with ways to re-engineer both the Iranian and Saudi Arabian governments."

In their January 26, 2004, Mother Jones article "The Lie Factory", Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest write:

"Called in to help organize the Iraq war-planning team was a longtime Pentagon official, Harold Rhode, a specialist on Islam who speaks Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, and Farsi. Though Douglas Feith would not be officially confirmed until July 2001, career military and civilian officials in NESA began to watch his office with concern after Rhode set up shop in Feith's office in early January. Rhode, seen by many veteran staffers as an ideological gadfly, was officially assigned to the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment, an in-house Pentagon think tank headed by fellow neocon Andrew Marshall. Rhode helped Feith lay down the law about the department's new anti-Iraq, and broadly anti-Arab, orientation. In one telling incident, Rhode accosted and harangued a visiting senior Arab diplomat, telling him that there would be no 'bartering in the bazaar anymore.... You're going to have to sit up and pay attention when we say so.'

"Rhode refused to be interviewed for this story, saying cryptically, 'Those who speak, pay.'

"According to insiders, Rhode worked with Feith to purge career Defense officials who weren't sufficiently enthusiastic about the muscular anti-Iraq crusade that Paul D. Wolfowitz and Feith wanted. Rhode appeared to be 'pulling people out of nooks and crannies of the Defense Intelligence Agency and other places to replace us with,' says a former analyst. 'They wanted nothing to do with the professional staff. And they wanted us the fuck out of there.'

[Stephanie]

17. Who's that?

He's the guy who organized cleric conferences? Who is he?

[Catherine Vincent]

8. Right now the Texans are on in Houston.

I hope it still shows. Damn!

[Stephanie]

9. Says its top story on Israeli news websites

Are there English-language Israeli papers?

[whalerider55]

11. papers

bushwatch usually posts stories from Ha'Aretz, english language paper...
i think the jerusalem times also has english language edition

whalerider55

[Stephanie]

14. thanks

this one only reports what CBS said:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/470334.html

[Stephanie]

16. jerusalem times links to wire services stories

http://www.jerusalemtimes.com/

[Cush]

10. oops, wrong thread

[lastknowngood]

19. Notice how they are down playing the importance and the reach

of the mole. They have got their talking points for the shrub's people. The original story was a "high level" spy in the sec def office. Now it's just a secretary who organized meetings.

[blitzen]

20. asshole Kessler on Nightline: "Oh well, everybody spies..."

The term "spy on" is misleading....The issue here is not that they were "eyeballing us" to see what was going on--it's that they were actively determining our foreign policy for their purposes (with, of course, the more than willing help of US war profiteers)