IP: From a former BBC reporter -- Re: -- FBI probing Israeli wiretapping at White House --Insight mag

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>From: Jan Ziff <janziff@mindspring.com>
>To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
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>Dave:
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>As the former BBC State Department correspondent, and one who covered 
>US-Israel relations for many years before that as a Jerusalem 
>correspondent - I am delighted you posted the Insight story.  Having 
>watched the Pollard affair unfold, and knowing that the damage to the US 
>is far greater than has been publicly reported - I had to laugh at the 
>comment of the Israeli spokesman at the Embassy that "Israel does not spy 
>on the United States"... something about bridges and Brooklyn comes to mind.
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>The real question is why such a major story which clearly has more than a 
>little substantiation is dismissed out of hand by the AP on the word of 
>one unnamed "senior federal law enforcement official" and a second equally 
>unnamed "senior law enforcement official."
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>Since when has the word of unnamed officials been gospel in Washington, 
>either which way? I do hope that the current State Department press corps 
>is all over this one as quickly as we would have been when I was there! If 
>this is anything as good as I suspect it is, I can only say, stay tuned.
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>Jan Ziff
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>From: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>Reply-To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 09:53:12 -0700
>To: ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com
>Subject: IP: YOU DECIDE WHICH YOU TRUSTand believe  -- FBI probing Israeli 
>wiretapping at White House --Insight mag
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> >Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 09:34:11 -0400 (EDT)
> >From: Shaya Potter <spotter@yucs.org>
> >To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
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> >First of all, I'm suprised you posted this as just a few hours after this
> >was posted to politech, there was an AP story basically saying it wasn't
> >true. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-White-House-Phones.html
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> >shaya potter
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