All in the family
By Arnaud de Borchgrave
In these history-making times when the Laci Peterson killing got more air time than Iran's or North Korea's (and now South Korea's) nuclear weapons program, the convergence of domestic and foreign interests is sometimes hard to discern. And this is where the FBI needs a little help.
Understanding the U.S.-Israeli relationship can be difficult if one thinks of Israel as a foreign country. Think of Israel as the 51st state, or as an integral part of the American body politic, and it's no longer spying, or even influence-peddling; it's family. One family member showing a close relative a secret document, or quoting from it over lunch, is not a prima facie case of spying. Nor can it be called a leak. Anymore than sharing with your brother a rival's plan to undermine the family business is a leak.
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Mr. Perle removed himself from the chairmanship of DPB over financial irregularities of which he was subsequently absolved. More recently, he has found himself again in financial hot water, accused of allegedly helping himself to $5 million from the $400 million that Lord Black, deposed Hollinger chairman, is accused of looting from his own company, which owns the Jerusalem Post. Mr. Feith is in everyone's doghouse because he stands accused of delusions of adequacy by failing to plan Iraq's postwar policy and to anticipate the widely predicted insurgency. He is also the strategic brain that recommended invading Iraq, not Afghanistan, after September 11, 2001.
Because, as he attempted to justify his cunning strategic ploy 2½ years after September 11, we would have caught the enemy by surprise by attacking a country not involved in September 11. Oops, my mistake. The Likudniks argued all along there was a seamless connection between Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Baghdad, and al Qaeda. This was how Mr. Sharon and his American family convinced President Bush his war on terror is identical to Israel's war on terror.
Mr. Feith, who has 1,500 people working for him at the Pentagon, was also the Likudnik whose Office of Special Plans cherry-picked and then shaded intelligence to make the case for war on Iraq. At least so say senior folk at the CIA and even at the Defense Intelligence Agency, albeit off the record.
The invasion and occupation of Iraq made the family's view a self-fulfilling prophecy and Iraq is now a global magnet for wannabe Islamist terrorists. This sealed Mr. Sharon's seamless argument.
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