A Peek into a Mind

I haven’t heard/read/watched any news editions since Thursday so I was a bit surprised when Manson left me a comment that some kind of a “mole” case is being investigated in the US pentagon. I thought it was a joke or something at the beginning but a quick browsing of several news sites (never trust only 1 source!!) made it clear this is not a hoax.

So far the whole issue isn’t very clear, as far as I can see, and even the FBI says that the person in question (Larry Franklin) might only be sued on “misuse of a confident document” if he’ll be sued at all. CNN said this: “Government officials said a decision has not yet been made to prosecute or not. They say there may not charges at all and if there are, there may not be espionage charges.”

On our side, Ynet (the website of the most popular Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot) reports that our government rejects any idea of espionage, specially when relationship and cooperation with the US is stronger then ever. Alon Pinkas, the exiting Israeli console to New York, says that the intelligence cooperation between the 2 countries on the Iranian issue is so good he fails to see how such a thing isn’t even worth it.

Nathan Sheranski, Israeli Minister, said it might be possible that this affair was blown up to the current proportions as a result of the tense relationship between the secret services and the pentagon, as elections are nearing.

Anyway, we can do little but get on and wait for further information.