High jacking the use (actually co-use) of the signal (public property) from the "eye in the sky" is hardly on par with actual terrorism. If anything it is simple theft of services.
Further IAI owns the four factories in Israel that produce satellites and space platforms... Funny that the ACTUAL developer would be accused of having the info and access. Just another smokescreen. On Jun 11, 9:39 am, plainolamerican <[email protected]> wrote: > Headley’s attacks are not the only ones cited by Feinstein and > Clapper. Feinstein also cited the case of Najibullah Zazi, an Afghan > immigrant to the U.S. who plotted to blow up the New York subway in > 2009. > --- > of course she's going to use muzzy terrorists to defend data > collection. > she wouldn't use this: > > New documents presented in federal court in Washington, D.C. reveal > deep ties between Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Dr. Stewart > David Nozette, an American astronomer accused of spying for Israel. > > Two attorneys in the counterespionage unit of the U.S. Department's of > Justice National Security division, Deborah Curtis and Heather > Schmidt, presented documents found on the scientist's computer. One > document, titled "Proposed Operations for 2005-2006," referred to the > need to carry out "a penetration of NASA," the U.S. space agency. > > Another document, according to the prosecution, shows Nozette > attempted to obtain highly confidential material by using his high- > level security clearance and infiltrating other people's computers. > > Other documents mention the names of Yossi Weiss and Yossi Fishman. > Weiss is a former project manager and today the deputy CEO of IAI and > head of the company's missile and space division. Fishman was the > IAI's representative in the U.S. and is today the CEO of ODF > Optronics. > > Fishman told Haaretz he knew Nozette the way he knew other Americans > employed by the IAI at the time as consultants. "We did not engage in > any kind of spying activity or information gathering, perish the > thought. The relationship was business as usual." > > The IAI is not mentioned specifically by name in the documents. It is > referred to as a foreign company or as a space company owned by the > Israeli government." Background talks with administration officials > indicate the references are indeed to IAI. > > Unreported visits > > The indictment and the documents indicate that Nozette was employed > for nine years as an IAI consultant. Versions vary as to how much he > was paid, from $170,000 to $225,000. His direct superior was Israel > Aircraft Industries International, a U.S.-registered company. > > The FBI searched Nozette's home and computer and found additional > proof of his connection to Israel. He visited here several times, but > did not report this - as is required by his high security clearance. > The FBI confiscated letters he wrote to Israelis, reports he forwarded > to the IAI, a map of Israel, photos of assorted places in Israel, a > Hebrew-language catalog of archaeological artifacts and other items. > > Nozette, 52, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, was arrested after FBI > surveillance that included wiretapping and undercover photography. The > operation followed the former astronomer's interrogation on suspicion > of tax evasion and defrauding the U.S. government. Nozette worked out > plea bargain with the Justice Department; he admitted to fraud and > accepted a sentence of up to three years in jail, plus a fine of > $265,000. His jail term would have started in November, but he was > arrested on the new and more serious charge of espionage. > > Nozette, who was born in Chicago, has Jewish parents but there is no > evidence he ever went to synagogue or Jewish community centers. His > neighbors said he was "a Zionist" but without evidence attesting to > this. From a young age, his interest was science. He studied at the > University of Arizona and earned a doctorate from the Massachusetts > Institute of Technology. Immediately, in 1983, he went to work for > U.S. agencies, including NASA, the Pentagon and the Lawrence Livermore > National Laboratory near San Francisco, which focuses on nuclear > weapons. By virtue of these positions, he enjoyed a very high security > clearance. One of the important studies he participated in found water > at the Moon's southern pole. Nozette subsequently left government work > and set up a private company as a consultant to firms in India and the > IAI. The latter continues to refuse, vehemently, to address this > embarrassing episode, which apparently has not done damage to the > company. > > Nozette was not the only person employed by the company as a > consultant. Over the years, the IAI as well as other Israeli defense- > related industries operating in the U.S., such as Elbit and Rafael, > hired as consultants dozens of Americans, mainly retired former army > officers and senior officials. > > Today as well, the IAI and its subsidiaries in the U.S. continue to do > business there and to cultivate ties. It is rather clear to them, and > this is indeed fairly routine business practice, that to obtain > contracts and win grants from the U.S. administration, doors must be > opened. For that, people with connections are needed to open those > doors. This was one of Nozette's assignments. Against this backdrop he > apparently tried (among other things) to help the "penetration" of > NASA. IAI, which produces space missile launchers, satellites and > other space technologies, hoped to win contracts and development > grants and enter joint ventures. > > While he was being investigated for fraud, Nozette told a friend he > would be willing to work for the Mossad. This information, along with > the fact that he was a consultant to the IAI, led the FBI to suspect > Nozette of being a Mossad agent, or at least psychologically ready to > be one. So a sting operation was set up. An FBI agent pretending to be > a Mossad agent met with Nozette and asked him for information. Nozette > reportedly agreed, supplied information and received $11,000. These > contacts were documented. > > The indictment does not mention Israel nor has the administration made > any complaints. Nevertheless Israel since its establishment > systematically conducted spying missions on U.S. soil - for around a > quarter of a century. Primarily, it was nuclear and technological- > military spying. > > On Jun 11, 6:34 am, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Monday, Jun 10, 2013What spying apologists don’t tell you about “thwarted > > plots”Defenders of the government's spying programs claim they're stopping > > massive attacks. Here's the real storyBy Marcy Wheeler > > Listen to defenders of the U.S. government’s recentlyrevealeddata > > collection practices, and you’re likely to hear claims about terrorist > > plots these sweeping activities have purportedly stopped. > > Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., > > explained onABC’s “This Week”Sunday that in one of the signature uses of > > the dragnet collection of every American’s phone records, the NSA managed > > to track one of our own informants, David Headley, as he helped Islamic > > terrorists plan attacks. She did not mention that it did nothing to prevent > > the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, which killed 166 and in which Headley > > had a role in planning. > > Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called the effort to track > > Headley – which did manage to thwart Headley’s 2009 plans to attack a > > Danish newspaper – a success, in aninterview with Andrea Mitchell. Such is > > the value of these programs, it appears, that top proponents of the program > > celebrate the tracking of a DEA informant gone bad as their main talking > > point. > > “U.S. officials say Headley simply slipped through the cracks,”ProPublica > > reportedearlier this year in a blockbuster story on Headley. ProPublica > > describes competing claims about when the Drug Enforcement Agency, which > > first recruited Headley in 1997, stopped using him as an informant; DEA > > insists he was deactivated in 2002, while other sources say he remained a > > U.S. informant through 2005. What’s clear is that Headley spent the > > subsequent years leading up to the 2008 Mumbai attack traveling form > > Pakistan to India, casing out the terror plot. > > Multiple warnings to the Indian government perhaps based on the > > intelligence now being touted failed to prevent the attack. “U.S. officials > > learned enough about his activities to become concerned, monitor him > > intermittently and pick up fragments of intelligence that contributed to > > the warnings to India,” reported ProPublica. At the time of the attack, > > Headley had returned safely to Lahore, Pakistan, and he even traveled > > between there, Chicago and Europe thereafter, planning another plot. In > > October 2009, the FBI arrested Headley in Chicago as he traveled to > > Pakistan to hand off intelligence for an attack on Denmark. > > Before we start celebrating our finding an informant-turned-terrorist we > > lost as one of the successes that makes massive spying worthwhile, > > shouldn’t we first get an explanation for how our intelligence agencies > > lost track of Headley in the first place? > > The flood of missed warnings about Headley’s increasing ties with Islamic > > terroristsdid lead to an investigationled by DNI Clapper’s office in 2010, > > but the results of it have not been made public. Yet the embarrassment of > > having a former American informant play a key role in one of the biggest > > attacks since 9/11 doesn’t seem to have prevented Clapper and Feinstein > > from boasting of NSA’s success in his case. > > Headley’s attacks are not the only ones cited by Feinstein and Clapper. > > Feinstein also cited the case of Najibullah Zazi, an Afghan immigrant to > > the U.S. who plotted to blow up the New York subway in 2009. FBI’s success > > in thwarting Zazi’s attack is probably the most serious publicly known > > example of a thwarted attack. To the extent the NSA’s programs played a key > > role, then, it is a significant success. > > But even there, the claims appear fuzzy or overblown. Feinstein, for > > example, describes the success this way (emphasis added): “[Zazi] made the > > decision that he was going to blow up a New York subway, who went to a > > beauty wholesale supply place, bought enough hydrogen peroxide to make > > bombs,was surveilled by the FBI for six months, traveled to go to New York, > > to meet with a number of other people who were going to carry out this > > attack with him, and were arrested by the FBI, who has > > ... > > read more » -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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