Israeli Spy at the Pentagon

[livius drusus]

CBS news broke this story tonight and I just happened to be watching it even though I haven't watched network news in years.

CBS News, who first reported the story, said federal agents were about to arrest the alleged spy, who it said may have been in a position to influence Bush administration policy on Iran and Iraq.

The network said the analyst had ties to Rumsfeld's deputy Paul Wolfowitz and Defense Undersecretary Douglas Feith, both regarded as leading architects of the war on Iraq which President Bush launched in March last year.

According to the network, one of the documents passed to Israel was a draft presidential directive on U.S. policy toward Iran -- lumped by Bush in an "axis of evil" with Iraq and North Korea.

I've always been mystified by Israeli spies. I mean, what is the point, really? How much more pro-Israel can the US possibly get? This case gives me an inkling, however. I've been hearing rumblings that Iran will be the next target of the "War on Terror" and Israel has been complaining about Iran's nuclear capability for months now.