explicit
08.03.07, 14:35
Nie wspominajac i ich legendarnym "dual loyalty" syndrom na najwyzszych
stanowiskach w rzadzie ,... Psia mac !!! ,...
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Before such issues had been fully explored, however, the investigation was
shut down. Following what ABC News reported were "high-level negotiations
between Israeli and U.S. government officials", a settlement was reached in
the case of the five Urban Moving Systems suspects. Intense political
pressure apparently had been brought to bear. The reputable Israeli daily
Ha'aretz reported that by the last week of October 2001, some six weeks after
the men had been detained, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and two
unidentified "prominent New York congressmen" were lobbying heavily for their
release. According to a source at ABC News close to the 20/20 report, high-
profile criminal lawyer Alan Dershowitz also stepped in as a negotiator on
behalf of the men to smooth out differences with the U.S. government.
(Dershowitz declined to comment for this article.) And so, at the end of
November 2001, for reasons that only noted they had been working in the
country illegally as movers, in violation of their visas, the men were flown
home to Israel ,...
Choking off the press coverage
There was similar pressure brought against the media venues that ventured to
report out the allegations of 9/11- related Israeli espionage. A former ABC
News employee high up in the network newsroom told me that when ABC News ran
its June 2002 exposé on the celebratory New Jersey Israelis, "Enormous
pressure was brought to bear by pro-Israeli organizations"--and this pressure
began months before the piece was even close to airing. The source said that
ABC News colleagues wondered, "how they [the pro-Israel organizations] found
out we were doing the story. Pro- Israeli people were calling the president
of ABC News. Barbara Walters was getting bombarded by calls. The story was a
hard sell but ABC News came through the management insulated [reporters] from
the pressure" ,...
www.counterpunch.org/ketcham03072007.html
