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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 09:22 AM Aug 2015

Netanyahu Busted Covering Up Intelligence That Disagrees With His Opposition To Obama Iran Deal

By: Jason Easley
Monday, August, 10th, 2015, 4:11 pm

A report out of Israel claims that Prime Minister Netanyahu is covering up and suppressing Israeli intelligence that disagrees with his opposition to Obama’s Iran nuclear deal.

According to Haaretz:

There are those in the Intelligence Corps, including those in the research division dealing with Iran, who have a very positive view of the nuclear agreement. Their views, at variance with the totally negative stance taken by Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, have bubbled up to the level of Halevy, Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and others, but there too they have been swallowed up as if they had never existed. Although this is not usually the case in the Intelligence Corps, as opposed to that regarding state secrets, these views are being concealed from the public. Where is the oversight department that is supposed to present contrarian views to the accepted wisdom?

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Netanyahu, who is afraid of the publication of intelligence assessments that contradict his own, wants to prevent the public and the U.S. Congress from seeing the cracks in the false facade of a unified Israeli front that opposes the agreement with Iran. Military officers who cooperate with this approach are in breach of their national duty.


Netanyahu’s behavior sounds very similar to that of the Bush administration before the United States invaded Iraq. At the time, the administration officials pushing for war in Iraq ignored, suppressed, or discredited any intelligence that disagreed with the Bush/Cheney assessment of Iraq as a fast and easy war to win.

The result was a mismanaged disaster of a war in Iraq that neither the American or the Iraqi people have yet to recover fully from. Netanyahu is trying to woo Senate Democrats into opposing the deal. Israeli intelligence reports that disagree with his opposition to the deal would be fatal to his plan of getting enough votes in the Senate to kill the deal.

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Netanyahu Busted Covering Up Intelligence That Disagrees With His Opposition To Obama Iran Deal (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2015 OP
The bastard Netanyahu is a neocon in the same mold FlatBaroque Aug 2015 #1
This could be his biggest failure yet. GOLGO 13 Aug 2015 #2
His "place" Plucketeer Aug 2015 #13
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Aug 2015 #3
"Netanyahu 2002: I guarantee you" Stellar Aug 2015 #4
Nutanyahoo the US Senator from Israel. will someone tell bonniebgood Aug 2015 #5
Can you blame him? Plucketeer Aug 2015 #14
And they see the U.S as their puppet. BeanMusical Aug 2015 #16
Very true! Plucketeer Aug 2015 #21
In some cases I suspect that blackmailing is occurring too. BeanMusical Aug 2015 #22
This happens when you do nusiness with war criminals malaise Aug 2015 #6
+1 BeanMusical Aug 2015 #17
I swear JackInGreen Aug 2015 #7
Is Bibi taking lessons from the Big Dick? Jack Rabbit Aug 2015 #8
Is Dick wearing Netanyahu's skin? blackspade Aug 2015 #20
Could the truth win for once? ... Helen Borg Aug 2015 #9
No one but us is going to hear about it for years.. annabanana Aug 2015 #24
Chuck Schumer's buddy. Lunabell Aug 2015 #10
Bibi is going to hurt US/Israeli relations Gothmog Aug 2015 #11
How is anyone surprised? The Polack MSgt Aug 2015 #12
He's a freaking psychopathic megalomaniac and seriously gives me the creeps. BeanMusical Aug 2015 #18
Why, that's so Republicanesque, procon Aug 2015 #15
Netanyahu is an authoritarian. blackspade Aug 2015 #19
Very true. BeanMusical Aug 2015 #23

FlatBaroque

(3,160 posts)
1. The bastard Netanyahu is a neocon in the same mold
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 09:40 AM
Aug 2015

as the famous team that created the Iraq invasion. This group mastrubates nightly at the thought of blowing up Iran, and then forcing a hot war against Russia. This is their purpose in life. These people are the absolute enemies of all decent human beings.

Stellar

(5,644 posts)
4. "Netanyahu 2002: I guarantee you"
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 09:46 AM
Aug 2015
Netanyahu 2002: I guarantee you
If you take out Saddam's Regime, I guarantee you, that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region.


C-Span Video

Riiight Netanyahu's got some swampland in Alaska he's like to sell congress here in America again.
 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
14. Can you blame him?
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 11:44 AM
Aug 2015

We treat Israel as the 51st state! I'll bet they get more federal assistance than some of the other 50 states.

BeanMusical

(4,389 posts)
16. And they see the U.S as their puppet.
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 12:10 PM
Aug 2015

That's one of the reasons why they are so furious about this deal.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
21. Very true!
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 01:08 PM
Aug 2015

So MANY of our legislators have their "strings" twiddled by our 51st state. I'm not clear on whether or not its a money thing or it's because we're the self-assigned cage-keepers of this Rapture-prediction-device!

BeanMusical

(4,389 posts)
22. In some cases I suspect that blackmailing is occurring too.
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 01:24 PM
Aug 2015

After all, what good is a spy agency (I have the Mossad in mind but there are many others) if they can't also gather some dirt on many influential people?

JackInGreen

(2,975 posts)
7. I swear
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 10:34 AM
Aug 2015

We should shove Bebe and the rest of the warmongers into thunderdome.

" Listen all! This is the truth of it. Fighting leads to killing, and killing gets to warring. And that was damn near the death of us all. Look at us now! Busted up, and everyone talking about hard rain! But we've learned, by the dust of them all... Bartertown learned. Now, when men get to fighting, it happens here! And it finishes here! Two men enter; one man leaves.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Dyin time's here."

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
8. Is Bibi taking lessons from the Big Dick?
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 10:41 AM
Aug 2015

Publish the Israeli intelligence Bibi doesn't want seen. There's always Wikileaks if the New York Times doesn't think the news is fit to print.

blackspade

(10,056 posts)
20. Is Dick wearing Netanyahu's skin?
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 12:48 PM
Aug 2015

or is Dick's head so far up Netanyahu's ass that he is talking for him now?

Helen Borg

(3,963 posts)
9. Could the truth win for once? ...
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 10:51 AM
Aug 2015

it does in the long term, but unfortunately, usually it's really long term...

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
24. No one but us is going to hear about it for years..
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 10:27 PM
Aug 2015

Then.. as if from nowhere... Everyone will somehow "know" it's true.. Like the falsehoods leading up to the Iraq war...

The Polack MSgt

(13,192 posts)
12. How is anyone surprised?
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 11:19 AM
Aug 2015

Netanyahu has never been anything but a liar and con artist using the misguided faith of American protestants to manipulate US policy.
All of the Likud can eat shit and die choking IMHO

BeanMusical

(4,389 posts)
18. He's a freaking psychopathic megalomaniac and seriously gives me the creeps.
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 12:18 PM
Aug 2015

Interesting that you're using the therm con artist:

Psychopaths, on the other hand, are unable to form emotional attachments or feel real empathy with others, although they often have disarming or even charming personalities. Psychopaths are very manipulative and can easily gain people’s trust. They learn to mimic emotions, despite their inability to actually feel them, and will appear normal to unsuspecting people. Psychopaths are often well educated and hold steady jobs. Some are so good at manipulation and mimicry that they have families and other long-term relationships without those around them ever suspecting their true nature.

When committing crimes, psychopaths carefully plan out every detail in advance and often have contingency plans in place. Unlike their sociopathic counterparts, psychopathic criminals are cool, calm, and meticulous. Their crimes, whether violent or non-violent, will be highly organized and generally offer few clues for authorities to pursue. Intelligent psychopaths make excellent white-collar criminals and "con artists" due to their calm and charismatic natures.


https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wicked-deeds/201401/how-tell-sociopath-psychopath

procon

(15,805 posts)
15. Why, that's so Republicanesque,
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 11:45 AM
Aug 2015

however will I tell one from the other? Oh me, oh my, what my eyes do spy!

blackspade

(10,056 posts)
19. Netanyahu is an authoritarian.
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 12:45 PM
Aug 2015

And a liar.
Another person who should be nowhere near the levers of power.

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