..... Franklin worked in the Pentagon, in the secretary of defense's bureau, as a senior policy analyst on Iran, Iraq, and Hezbollah. His superiors were Jews: Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense, and Douglas Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy. Franklin believes these two senior officials were the actual, main targets of the FBI investigation....
.... Upon returning to Washington, Franklin kept up his ties with Israeli diplomats and with visiting defense and intelligence personnel. He also met, albeit infrequently, with AIPAC lobbyists. These meetings were sanctioned by his superiors at the Pentagon, particularly on the Iranian desk and in a special unit established by then-secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld. One of the unit's tasks was to assemble the "Iraqi file"; preparing information that would validate the decision to invade Iraq on the grounds that Saddam Hussein's regime was linked to Al-Qaida and had developed weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. With the encouragement of President George W. Bush, a group of neoconservatives formed around Rumsfeld. The group did not trust other bodies in the administration - the Central Intelligence Agency, in particular - and left them in the dark with respect to its activity, which at times seemed to be of questionable legality. Two of the leading neocons were Franklin's direct superiors, Feith and Wolfowitz.....
... But Franklin's troubles with U.S. law-enforcement agencies sprang not only from his actions and his close ties with Israel. In this writer's opinion, they are the result of something deeper - the FBI's constant and unwavering suspicion that Israel is a treacherous state which, unsatisfied with the generous aid it receives from its American ally, systematically and unscrupulously connives to spy and steal information and technology in the United States.
Those suspicions, which became an obsession, were reinforced in 1985 with the affair of the civilian navy analyst Jonathan Pollard, who was discovered to be spying for Israel. From its investigation of Pollard, the FBI concluded that Israel had another spy deep within the administration - someone even more senior than Pollard, sometimes nicknamed by the FBI as Mr. X..... Full story
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