FBI translator gets 20 months in prison

Shamai K. Liebowitz feared Israel may attack Iran

jpost.com: A dual US-Israeli citizen working as an FBI translator was sentenced to 20 months in prison after he was caught passing on recorded conversations from FBI wiretaps of the Israeli embassy in Washington, The New York Times reported Monday. According to the paper, Shamai K. Liebowitz, a lawyer working as a Hebrew translator for the FBI, passed on the sensitive information to an American blogger out of fears that Israel may have been planning an attack on Iran, and was aggressive in its attempts to exert influence in the US Congress and public opinion >>>

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iraj khan

Israel, "Ungrateful ally"

by iraj khan on Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:24 AM PDT

former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates:

"Only this week, a Bloomberg columnist reported that former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates had accused Netanyahu of being an "ungrateful ally" shortly before he left office, adding that the Israeli leader was "endangering his country by refusing to grapple with Israel's growing isolation."

//news.yahoo.com/analysis-israel-faces-perfect-storm-shifting-region-143142188.html


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Kooshan

What is the analogy?

by Kooshan on Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:12 PM PDT

Israel spying on US is like a woman spying on her man to control his behavior out of fear that one day he may dump her for another good looking lady!


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G. Rahmanian

The News Is Not About Israel Spying On The US!

by G. Rahmanian on Wed Sep 07, 2011 09:41 PM PDT

???


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iamfine

Israelis and aerospace

by iamfine on Wed Sep 07, 2011 08:10 PM PDT

In major aerospace companies, there are sensitive projects that Israelis are brought to help as subcontractors. At the end Israelis will benefit from the analytical and experimental results. That is, Israel doesn’t have to allocate budget to conduct the state-of-the-art research, it simply gets free from our aerospace firms.


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Anonymous Observer

Pretty disturbing about Israel spying on the U.S.

by Anonymous Observer on Wed Sep 07, 2011 11:38 AM PDT

it ranks third after Russia and China in its spying efforts of the U.S. Pretty disturbing.  NY times article on the subject:

 //www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/us/06leak.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=israel%20FBI%20spy%20September%206&st=cse

 


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