On Stewart Nozette's NASA bio page, he describes his hobbies as "cooking and listening to The Grateful Dead Channel on Sirius satellite radio." Nothing about passing classified information to Israeli intelligence though.
US aid to Israel totals 2.55 billion dollars a year. And they spy on us? There's gratitude.
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3 years ago
Folks, I suggest you read the article - Israel had nothing to do with it! This was an FBI sting.
ReplyDeleteIt's not as if Israel spying on the US is without precedent ("israel spying on US" gets more than a million hits). I find it hard to believe that a NASA brainiac would have behaved like Brad Pitt's character in Burn After Reading.
ReplyDeleteI'm no expert on espionage, but there was a long history of people approaching the KGB in the old days, the KGB getting wind that the other side were aware, then the KGB reporting the would-be spy to his own country's intelligence services so the KGB looked like good guys. Not saying this is the case as Who TF knows.
So, you boast your headline 'israel Spying on US' gets more than a million hits. Since the main headline is a complete distortion of the article, as well as your secondary accusation of Israeli spying, you are presumably doing this to gain cheap attention as well as show a bias. This is sadly too close to the Fox News sensationalist and dishonest Grub Street tactics.
ReplyDeleteDu-uuude,
ReplyDeleteI was not boasting 'my headline' got a million hits (I wish), I was pointing out that the p-h-r-a-s-e gets more than a million hits. I.e., there are plenty of news stories about Israel spying on the US. At the same time, there are few examples of NASA scientists tapping, say, the Portuguese intelligence service, to sell secrets because Portugal doesn't have much of a history of spying on the US.
And, don't worry, I'm just a blog. There's not much chance that I'll be vying for media domination with Roger Ailes any time soon.