Daniel Pipes On US Spies Who Have Spied On Israel

The following by Daniel Pipes is reposted here with permission:

Spy vs. Spy, America vs. Israel

by Daniel Pipes
National Review Online
August 7, 2012

http://www.danielpipes.org/

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[NRO title: "No Surprises: Israel, America, and Spying"]

Israelis spying on Americans is in the news again: leaders of the Jewish state just petitioned for Jonathan Pollard's release and the Associated Press reported with alarm that U.S. national security officials at timesconsider Israel to be "a genuine counterintelligence threat." Its tone of breathless outrage suggests: How dare they! Who do they think they are?

Antonio Prohias drew the wordless "Spy vs. Spy"
cartoon, a cold-war phenomenon, from 1961 to 1987. 

But spying on allies is the norm, and it's a two-way street. Before getting too worked up, Americans should realize that Washington is no innocent. From Reagan to Obama, the U.S. government has sustained a massive spying effort against Israel. Examples:

How Many Jonathan Pollards Does The US Have Spying On Israel?

Last week, the Associated Press came out with an article highlighting the fact that Israelis keeps a close eye on the CIA presence in Israel:

The CIA station chief opened the locked box containing the sensitive equipment he used from his home in Tel Aviv, Israel, to communicate with CIA headquarters in Virginia, only to find that someone had tampered with it. He sent word to his superiors about the break-in.