Is Marco Rubio a Sleeper Agent for Netanyahu?

[Purveyor]

Why else would the GOP presidential candidate oppose US intelligence keeping an eye on Israel?

—By David Corn
Fri Jan. 8, 2016 6:00 AM EST

This week, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) released a television ad that slammed President Barack Obama on several fronts: guns, abortion, climate change (it's not a true threat), and the war on terrorism. In the ad, the almost-top-tier GOP presidential candidate proclaims, "America needs a real commander in chief and a president that will keep us safe." And, as part of his indictment of Obama, Rubio huffs, "He spies on Israel."

Rubio's message seems to be that a strong and effective US leader would not spy on Israel, and that Rubio would not green-light espionage operations that keep an eye on that nation. No doubt, that would delight Israel and its spies, who have long targeted Washington with aggressive espionage operations.

As the Wall Street Journal reported last month, the US intelligence establishment does snoop on Israeli officials. This has outraged conservative supporters of Israel within the United States. But what has such spying unearthed? That Israel spies on the United States.

That's not news. Jonathan Pollard, an American who worked for Navy intelligence, passed a ton of classified information to Israel, in what experts routinely describe as one of the most significant espionage cases in US history. He was caught in 1985, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison. In Israel, though, he was hailed a hero. And for years, Israel and some prominent Jewish Americans, including GOP billionaire Sheldon Adelson, pressed for Pollard's release. (Two months ago, he was finally released on parole.) But Pollard was hardly the only Israeli spook who connived to swipe American secrets.

More recently, Jeff Stein, a veteran journalist on the intelligence beat, reported in Newsweek in 2014 that US intelligence officials discussed the issue at a top-secret congressional briefing, noting:

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/marco-rubio-sleeper-agent-netanyahu

[delrem]

1. He doesn't have to be. Hillary Clinton has asserted that rapprochement with Netanyahu

is first on her list of priorities.
She agrees 100% with the Republican criticism of Obama.
Or am I somehow mistaken?

[underthematrix]

4. You're mistaken but don't let that stop you

[delrem]

11. No. I'm not mistaken.

So why are you lying when it's so easy to look it up?

"How I Would Reaffirm Unbreakable Bond With Israel — and Benjamin Netanyahu."
Hillary Clinton
http://forward.com/opinion/national/324013/how-i-would-rebuild-ties-to-israel-and-benjamin-neta/

[Hortensis]

12. You're very mistaken.

[underthematrix]

2. People who would go here would not be thinking of

rubio.

[jberryhill]

3. Did the check clear?

[Purveyor]

5. Direct deposit. eom

[jberryhill]

6. Then tell Marco to quit sleeping and get to work

Of course, this is Rubio we're talking about. Paying him doesn't seem to get him in to the office either.

[Chemisse]

7. He is either joltingly naive or

Netanyahu and crew have offered him a hefty 'donation.'

Either way, I hope Rubio sinks.

[Hortensis]

13. He's telling end-times and other extremist Christians that

Hillary is in Satan's camp.

[betterdemsonly]

15. It is pretty well known that Sheldon Adelson is his main patron. n/t

[bigwillq]

8. Unlikely (nt)

[WinkyDink]

9. I respect David Corn. but it is disingenuous to presume that israel is our only ally with spies on

us!

[oberliner]

10. Obama promises privacy protections, overhauls surveillance program (Jan 2014)

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called Friday for the end of his government’s control over masses of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans, and promised in a major and long-expected speech that U.S. intelligence would no longer be listening in on the telephone conversations of leaders of nations that are U.S. friends and allies.

The existence of the U.S. intelligence program that bugged the phones of leaders like Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, for example, significantly cooled relations with some of Washington’s key partners abroad. Merkel made her displeasure broadly known, and Rousseff blasted the United States at the United Nations. She canceled a planned trip to the United States that was supposed to culminate in a coveted state dinner at the White House on Oct. 23.

“The leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance,” Obama said.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/obama-sets-limits-overhauls-surveillance-program/

[betterdemsonly]

16. The same article quoted Obama as saying.

Obama warned, however, that “we cannot unilaterally disarm our intelligence agencies.” He added, “We know that the intelligence services of other countries — including some who feign surprise over the Snowden disclosures — are constantly probing our government and private sector networks.”

That would obviously include Israel to anyone paying attention.

[betterdemsonly]

14. I've noticed!

Another indicator is people who blame Iran for Isis.

[Bradical79]

17. I lean more towards him being a "useful idiot"

There are a lot of Christian denominations that indoctrinate their followers from a young age with the idea that Israel is God's chosen nation and going against Israel's national interests is a direct a front to God. I think he's either one of these people or just saying what he thinks those people want to hear so he can pick up more conservative support.