Israeli "spy" and Plame case connected?

[MGKrebs]

In an article otherwise devoted to defending the innocence of AIPAC in the spy scandal, a statement is made comparing the investigation of AIPAC to that of the Plame investigation, the connection being that the FBI is apparently targeting pro-Iraqi-invasion people and groups. I just thought it was interesting.

"In the case of Mr. Franklin, one former colleague from the Pentagon said that targeting him was part of a larger pattern where the close-knit community of government officials who favored the Iraq war have been targeted by wide investigations. The latest subpoenas of government officials in the investigation into the leaking of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity has asked many hawkish officials for any phone records with New York Times reporter Judith Miller, a reporter who has been criticized by the left for her closeness to this group but who had no apparent connection to the Plame story."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0804/pentagon_spy2.php3

[slojim240]

1. How about: the people who favored the Iraqi war have an evil agenda?

How about that rationalization? And our intel is trying find out who is really our enemy and who isn't?

[seemslikeadream]

2. Yes very connected

http://lawnorder.blogspot.com/1999_08_11_lawnorder_arch...

Winds of Change:

Troubled Waters Ahead For the Neo Cons

by
Wayne Madsen



isn't only running toward the raw power it loves. It's
running away from the punishment it fears. In this
late-breaking story, FTW's Wayne Madsen maps out the lines
of force in the current Plame and Chalabi scandals, showing
them to be nodes of interpersonal influence and compromise
that may soon crack the administration in half. The neocons'
dark alliance with the right wing of Israeli politics has
brought them enormous power. But it's unstable power,
vulnerable to legal sanction and due process at the right
pressure points. As Watergate proved decades ago, even a
dying legal infrastructure can still throw a few jabs once
in a while - if the CIA wants it to. --JAH]

August 11, 2004 0800 PDT (FTW) - The winds that have favored
the neo-cons and their political and financial masters since
George W. Bush's ascension to power may now be turning
against them at gale force strength. There is a reason why
Richard Perle and his American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
friends, including "Second Lady" Lynne Cheney and former
Reagan National Security Council staffer Michael Ledeen,
were uncomfortable when Iraq con man and Iraqi Governing
Council member Ahmed Chalabi's offices in Baghdad were
raided this past May by Iraqi police, FBI and CIA officers.
The Baghdad money trail may soon lead to Washington, DC. The
sinewy links between the neo-cons, Ariel Sharon's Likud
government, and the Chalabis should be a definite cause for
concern by some Bush administration officials, and
particularly troubling for Mrs. Cheney, who reportedly sits
upon a $125,000 AEI fellowship funded by Likud Party
interests.

The Chalabi files recovered by U.S. intelligence and law
enforcement provided enough information for the FBI to begin
a criminal investigation of a Baghdad-Jerusalem-Washington
syndicate that is profiteering from America's misguided
invasion and occupation of Iraq. The investigation led to
shadowy Israeli-owned firms registered in Delaware and
Panama that were fraudulently obtaining contracts and
sub-contracts to provide everything from cellular phones and
VIP security to the interrogation of Iraqi prisoners using
seconded members of Israel's feared Unit 1391 "special
techniques" interrogation center. Not only were these firms
operating in Iraq with the concurrence of the neo-cons in
the Pentagon but some U.S. government officials were
personally benefiting from the contracts.

Peeling apart the Chalabi files demonstrated that the
neo-con agenda for Iraq extended far beyond political
ideology, into a realm where law enforcement can be most
effective: fraud.

According to Pentagon and Justice Department sources, U.S.
investigators discovered that Ahmad Chalabi and his business
partners were involved in fraudulently obtaining cellular
phone licenses in Iraq. The Pentagon's Undersecretary of
Defense for International Technology Security John (Jack)
Shaw smelled a neo-con rat when the Iraqi Coalition
Provisional Authority (CPA), in late 2003, awarded cellular
phone contracts to three companies - Orascom, Atheer, and
Asia-Cell - with ties to Ahmed Chalabi. As with all those
who challenge the impropriety and illegal activities of the
neo-cons, Shaw was, in turn, charged with improperly
steering Iraq cell phone contracts to Qualcomm and Lucent.
However, it is Shaw, reported by his longtime colleagues to
be a solid and trustworthy public servant, who has the
confidence of law enforcement, Pentagon investigators, and
the military brass. Anything with Ahmed Chalabi's
fingerprints on it also bears the fingerprints of his nephew
Salem Chalabi. Salem, named as the chief prosecutor in
Saddam Hussein's trial, is a law partner of L. Marc Zell, a
Jerusalem-based attorney who was the law partner of Douglas
Feith - the head of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans
that concocted phony intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction and ties to Al Qaeda with the assistance of
Likud operatives seconded by Ariel Sharon's government.

[MGKrebs]

3. Ahh, thank you. I was wondering why Lynn Cheney

was so closely tied to all of this.

[Pallas180]

4. Seems to me they're looking for connection to Chalabi's phony reports

and the pushing of them onto intel analysts to feed to the WH.

There's treason here...but the question is will anyone have the guts
to bring the charges? Such charges against Chalabi would lead to
the cabal and Rumsfeld and Cheney.