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FBI officials repeatedly refused to discuss the Franklin stings. The bureau
also refused to respond to questions about whether members of the media
- including those at CBS, NBC and even this reporter - are under
surveillance as part of their investigation. But at one point, a senior FBI
official with knowledge of the case finally stated, "I cannot confirm or deny
that Information [due to] the pending investigation."
Some Washington insiders believe that the FBI's multiple stings are far
from routine counterintelligence but represent a "war" between the
counterintelligence community and policymakers, especially neocons.
One key insider explained the war this way.: "It ,is two diametrically
opposed ways of thinking. The neocons have an interventionist mindset
willing to ally with anyone to defeat world terrorism, and they see the
intelligence community as too passive. The intelligence community sees
the neocons as wild men Willing to champion any foreign source - no
,matter how specious - if it suits their ideology." .
Leading neoconservative figure Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise.
Institute added ~is own thought.
"This is a war of the intelligence community vs. the neoconservatives,"
Rubin observed. "It involves both the right and the left of the· intelligence
community. It is a war about policy, the point being, the CIA must not be
involved in policy. The CIA's role is to provide intelligence. and let the
policymakers decide what to do with it, and it appears they are not sticking
to that role - and that is a dangerous situation."
"This is the politicizing of intelligence," he continued. "But the CIA, by its
establishing principle.s, is not to be involved in politics."
Rubin added that the sting effort "against AIPAC is the culmination of a 20-
year witch-hunt from a small corps within the counterintellige'nce •
community" that Rubin labeled "conspiracy theorists." He added, "What is
the common denominator between the Ciralsky case and the AIPAC case?
David Szady.,"
.Szady, who has been decorated twice by the CIA for distinguished service,
answered one critic, writing, "I am not at liberty to comment on pe~ding
investigations." Szady had issued a statement to this reporter earlier that
he "has no anti-Semitic views, has never handled a case or investigation
based upon an individual's ethnicity or religious views and would·never do
so."
One neoconservative at the center of the counterintelligence war said:
"This is just the beginning. Nobody knows where this war is going."
Edwin Black is the authorof "IBM and the Holocaust" (Crown, 2001).
Black's current best seller is "Banking on Baghdad" (Wiley), which
chronicles 7,000 years ofIraqi history. This article first appeared in the.
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