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IP: From a former BBC reporter -- Re: -- FBI probing Israeli wiretapping at White House --Insight mag
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 18:49:05 -0700
From: Jan Ziff <janziff () mindspring com> To: <farber () cis upenn edu> Dave: As the former BBC State Department correspondent, and one who covered US-Israel relations for many years before that as a Jerusalem correspondent - I am delighted you posted the Insight story. Having watched the Pollard affair unfold, and knowing that the damage to the US is far greater than has been publicly reported - I had to laugh at the comment of the Israeli spokesman at the Embassy that "Israel does not spy on the United States"... something about bridges and Brooklyn comes to mind. The real question is why such a major story which clearly has more than a little substantiation is dismissed out of hand by the AP on the word of one unnamed "senior federal law enforcement official" and a second equally unnamed "senior law enforcement official." Since when has the word of unnamed officials been gospel in Washington, either which way? I do hope that the current State Department press corps is all over this one as quickly as we would have been when I was there! If this is anything as good as I suspect it is, I can only say, stay tuned. Jan Ziff From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu> Reply-To: farber () cis upenn edu Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 09:53:12 -0700 To: ip-sub-1 () majordomo pobox com Subject: IP: YOU DECIDE WHICH YOU TRUSTand believe -- FBI probing Israeli wiretapping at White House --Insight magDate: Sun, 7 May 2000 09:34:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Shaya Potter <spotter () yucs org> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu> First of all, I'm suprised you posted this as just a few hours after this was posted to politech, there was an AP story basically saying it wasn't true. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-White-House-Phones.html shaya potter
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