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The official said he is ttying to determine ifsome ofthe office's activities may have been prohibited by
the Hughes-Ryan Amendment, which holds that all activity to undermine a foreign government must be
approved by the president in a specific document approving such activity.
Supporters ofFeith and his policy advisers roundly deny accusations that the office is a rogue .opemtion.
They say the two ongoing FBI inquiries into alleged leaks ofclassified infonnation amount to what one
called "McCarthyism," a sustained campaign by opponents ofBush's policies to discredit their views and
brand them as pawns for the Israeli lobby merely because they are pushing for stronger action against
terrorist states.
They note that no arrests have been made, only charges a~d leaks to journalists fr9m unnamed officials.
"It sounds to me that it'is an investigation that was leaked for maximum adverse affect on the office,
which has been subjected to a lot ofother criticism," said'Frank Gaffney, president ofthe conservative
Center for Security Policy and a former assistant defense secretary under President Reagan. "You have
people who are-controversial. They are taking positions that last time I checked, the president ... was
closely associated with, that are opposed by other people in the bureaucracy.
"One ofthe tricks ofbureaucratic warfare is to attack them in the press. It makes them less effective,"
Gaffney said. -"I think that is going on here." .
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