IP: From a former BBC reporter -- Re: -- FBI probing Israeli wiretapping at White House --Insight mag

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: Jan Ziff <janziff () mindspring com>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
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> Dave:
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> 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.
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> 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."
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> 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.
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> Jan Ziff
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> 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 mag
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> > Date: 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
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> > shaya potter