Report: Netanyahu Might Have Leaked U.S.-Iran Nuclear Details

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM/Washington Post

U.S. officials suspect Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorized leaking details of U.S. nuclear negotiations with Iran to Israeli journalists, according to The Washington Post's David Ignatius.

Concerns that Israeli officials had leaked key details about those negotiations, including that the U.S. offered to let Iran enrich uranium with "6,500 or more centrifuges as part of a final deal," has prompted the U.S. to limit the amount of sensitive information it exchanges with Israel about the Iran nuclear negotiations, Ignatius reported.

White House spokesman Alistair Baskey, Ignatius noted, denied a report on Sunday by Israel's Channel 2 news that the Obama administration had completely cut communications with Israel on the Iranian talks.

White House officials suggested that those reports were actually misleading, as centrifuge numbers in the negotiations are part of a larger package that also includes Iran's nuclear stockpile and what type of centrifuges Iran would be allowed to operate, according to Ignatius.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-netanyahu-leak-details-nuclear-talks-iran

[groundloop]

1. That bastard should be arrested if he ever steps foot on US soil.

[Fred Drum]

7. security risk at a minimum

candidate for the no fly list

[forest444]

2. Got Netanyahoo problems?

Here's the solution: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6234431

[BlueMTexpat]

3. Why on earth would Netanyahu be privy

to any details of US negotiations with Iran?

If that is true, I find it absolutely outrageous. That he would leak such details to journalists in an effort to undercut the US I find totally unsurprising.

But since when does the US share negotiations details with him?

[BillZBubb]

10. The US always lets Israel in on what it is doing in the region.

It is a horrible policy, but it is what is done.

[BlueMTexpat]

11. This makes it sound as if the US is Israel's

client-state, which I find to be outrageous, especially considering all the monetary assistance and international political cover that the US provides to Israel, even against the US's own national interests and credibility.

I can understand why we might let Israel know generally what we plan to do in the area (they likely have their very well own informed sources as well ...). But for us to provide details of sensitive negotiations to which they are not a party is not only a horrible policy, it is insane.

Much too much of our ME foreign policy is insane, IMO ... and has been for a LONG time.

For Netanyahu deliberately to leak such details is unpardonable.

[BillZBubb]

12. No argument here. Insane is an apt description.

[jakeXT]

13. At least they aren't bombing a US ship or something

In 1967, at the height of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, the Israeli Air Force launched an unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty, a US Navy spy ship that was monitoring the conflict from the safety of international waters in the Mediterranean.

Israeli jet fighters hit the vessel with rockets, cannon fire and napalm, before three Israeli torpedo boats moved in to launch a second more devastating attack. Though she did not sink, the Liberty was badly damaged. Thirty-four US servicemen and civilian analysts were killed, another 171 were wounded.

Later Israel apologised for what it claimed to be a tragic case of mistaken identity. It said that it had believed the ship to be hostile Egyptian naval vessel. US President Lyndon Johnson was privately furious but publicly the White House chose not to challenge the word of its closest Middle East ally and accepted that the attack had been a catastrophic accident.

However, as this exclusive Al Jazeera investigation reveals, fresh evidence throws new light on exactly what happened that fateful day - and the remarkable cover up that followed.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2014/10/day-israel-attacked-america-20141028144946266462.html

[BlueMTexpat]

15. I know the Liberty situation well.

It is just another example of how the USG has literally played lapdog to Israeli governments - even to the extent of leaving its own military personnel in the lurch - and why our ME credibility has been viewed as major hypocrisy by those outside the US.

Thanks for the link!

[wildbilln864]

4. k & fucking r! n/t

[quadrature]

5. perhaps the American people should be in on the negotiations...

just a suggestion

[BillZBubb]

9. That makes no sense.

just a response.

[mother earth]

6. Netanyahu and Boehner Tag-Teaming on Iran Could Backfire On Both of Them

Full interview:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=13074

Professor Vijay Prashad says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a high risk gambler whose relationship with the Obama administration has hit rock bottom - February 1, 2015

Netanyahu and Boehner Tag-Teaming on Iran Could Backfire On Both of Them

PRASHAD: Well, Benjamin Netanyahu is nothing if not a high-risk gambler. And he knows that his relationship with the Obama administration is pretty much at rock-bottom. And he has been opposed to the only rational way to move forward with the Middle East standoff, which is the agreement between the United States, Western European allies, and Iran on the question of the nuclear program that Iran has.

There is no other way to go with that program than to have talks. Mr. Netanyahu was has utterly opposed it from the beginning. Mr. Obama has staked his political capital on the success of those talks. So in that sense, Mr. Netanyahu's trip is premised on the idea that it will somehow destroy the talks.

Unfortunately for him, I actually think that his arrival in Washington in early March, speaking both before the Republican-controlled Congress and before AIPAC, is going to help Mr. Obama move an agenda with Iran rather than hurt it. I mean, don't forget, Sharmini, that regardless of what the Republican-controlled Congress does, they will need 67 votes in the Senate to overturn an Obama veto. And if they want to pass new sanctions, a slate against Iran, they're going to need Democratic votes in the Senate. And by Mr. Netanyahu so blatantly snubbing his nose at Mr. Obama, it's very unlikely that those Democrats are going to vote for the Menendez-Kirk plan to increase sanctions. And because of that, Obama is going to get his way. I think this is going to backfire on Benjamin Netanyahu and on the Republicans.

We are seeing a level of transparency in some ways, right through these warmongering factions.

[BrotherIvan]

8. Damn

Obama must not be amused.

[elias49]

14. What govt agency provides security for Netanyahu?

Or any foreign dignitary?
Surely someone knows.