-Caveat Lector-
Madeleine Taketh Away, Giveth Back
NewsMax.com
October 11, 2000
So her risk-suspected ambassador to Israel may resume forging
peace, Secretary of State Albright has reissued his security
clearance she revoked under "zero tolerance."
The State Department said she took the unprecedented action late
Monday that allows Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk to resume
temporarily his full duties � even as an FBI investigation
continues into the alleged security violations he committed.
Before he lost his security clearance, Indyk had been active in
the peace negotiations.
According to Reuters news service:
Israel's foreign minister, Shlomo Ben-Ami, had said earlier that
he hoped the suspension of Indyk's security clearance would not
make it harder for the United States to forge a final
Israeli-Palestinian peace pact.
A State Department spokesman, Philip Reeker, said Albright
restored Indyk's clearance for ''compelling national interests''
amid turmoil in the Middle East.
Reeker said Albright's decision was made in consultation with
diplomatic security officials at the State Department, who, he
said, fully supported her ruling.
"He will now be able to perform his duties to the fullest
extent," Reeker said.
At the time, Albright described her decision to withdraw Indyk's
clearance as one of the hardest she has ever had to make.
But, she said, she had to enforce her new policy of "zero
tolerance" on State Department security lapses.
The Clinton-Gore administration has been plagued by a series of
embarrassing security breaches, including missing laptop
computers containing classified materials and bugging of the
State Department by a known Russian spy.
In a highly publicized stern speech to United States diplomats
around the world five months ago, Albright warned that any of
them caught breaking the rules would be punished, regardless of
their rank.
"If you are not professional about security, you are a failure,"
she scolded.
When Indyk's clearance was jerked, rendering him unable to
perform his ambassadorial duties, he has accused of having left
classified materials on his hotel bedside table in Israel.
Now, State Department officials are stressing that Indyk is not
suspected of spying or compromising classified material, just
putting it on an unclassified laptop connected to the Internet.
Without a high-level security clearance, the veteran
Clinton-Gore administration diplomat was subjected to the
indignity of having to be accompanied by security personnel
wherever he went within the State Department headquarters
building in Washington.
But he was soon back in Israel, to celebrate the Jewish New
Year, and met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a State
Department official said, even though the department had
announced Indyk was no longer permitted even to converse with
other nations' officials or diplomats.
Although Indyk remains under investigation, the State Department
had begun working him back into diplomatic service.
Last week, even before the secretary restored his security
clearance, the department had arranged for him to continue his
duties.
Said the departmental spokesman, Reeker:
"He was fully briefed on the importance of and critical need to
protect classified information."
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