Spy Story from the GIA - Googling Intelligence Agency

Again, me citing the ultimately irreplaceable NYT - the apparant Israeli pentagon spy is a guy named Larry Franklin, described in my google "larry franklin pentagon" search as a top aide to Leith (rather than a guy with no ability to affect policy as described in some stories. - there's even Wolfowitz thanking him in a speech). Franklin may be remembered from a recent meeting, oh a little too post 9-11 recently, with IRAN-CONTRA notable Ghorbanifar - sleezebag Iranian arms dealer.

This Washington Post story goes farther, putting Franklin as a stalwart neo-con in offices generating enormous amounts of dangerous bullshit - pressuring Israel to tank Oslo, forming Iraq policy, pooping on Iranian moderates, and of course sucking up to arms dealers. If he's an Israeli agent....I mean holy poo.

This is not doing much for my view of the Israeli government, which was already at the point of giving up on it as any reasonable force for peace or secular democracy. It suggests - only suggests so far - that the right-wing elements of the Israeli government have been directly playing a predisposed neo-con adminstration into a dangerous and unsustainable Middle East policy - Feith, his immediate boss, one of the Wolfowitz Chihuahuas (to coin an expression), set up the intelligence office to find the Al Qaeda - Sadaam connection, as one particularly catastrophic example.

Stay tuned.