POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY MARGARET WENTE IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
"He’s more like Ted Kaczynski, who didn’t care what he blew up..."
That is simply appalling, Ms Wente. It is both uninformed and ignores the elephant in the room.
Assange's organization combed through the material and did not release names in highly sensitive cases.
The biggest chunk of missing material is from communications with Israel.
There are two theories for this.
First, that Assange made a deal with Israeli authorities ahead of time to withhold material.
Second, that WikiLeaks is being used by Mossad to "get out" certain messages.
And we know from history there is tons of material on Israel.
The embarrassment and hurt to the United States is nothing new for the Israelis.
For decades, they have done as they please regardless of what the U.S. thinks.
Just consider the 1967 war, whose ghastly results persist to this day.
And consider Israel's two hour all-out attack on the USS Liberty, a spy ship, during that war. Israel did everything it could to sink it, killing a large portion of the crew. It made lame excuses afterward for the attacking the well-marked ship which it had been advised would be on station to keep Israel to its secret promises around the war.
The attack was covering General Dayan's movement northward from the Sinai of armor - something it had previously told the U.S. in private it would not do. The resulting conquest mess we live with to this day. Those conquests were Israel's entire secret purpose in making that war happen as a big black operation.
There are countless other instances, including Israel's duplicitous nuclear program, something Kennedy was totally against when he discovered it. Well, the program is still there, but Kennedy isn’t.
How about Israel’s participation in the Suez Crisis with Britain and France, something Eisenhower put an end to?
How about the many insults like that offered the Vice President recently?
The icing on the cake, as it were, was the most damaging spy in American history, Israeli hero, Jonathon Pollard. Some of what he stole was sold to Russia.
Israel never even blushes over Pollard, and to this day, they continue to beg and plead for his release, despite the fact that a quarter of the senior American intelligence agents would tender their resignations were that to happen. There have been dozens of formal and informal requests - immense pressure - to release a man that under other circumstances would have been shot.
And there have been many spying instances, right down to a group of Mossad spies who were right behind the 9/11 guys, a group of phony "house movers" arrested in New York and deported and a group of "art students." None of it ever explained.
It is well known that the United States is more intensively spied on by Israel than it is by any other ally.
Note: for those not familiar, Ms Wente is one of Canada's most persistent and blind defenders of Israel's bloody excesses.
