Why Spend $50 Billion for an Intelligence Community When AIPAC Knows Better?

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Why Spend $50 Billion for an Intelligence Community When AIPAC Knows Better?

by Jim Lobe

I guess that’s one of the things that occurred to me when I received this Press Release and the letter to the president (posted in Thread 15) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) yesterday. All but one of the 47 members of the Committee signed on.

The letter, which, normally reliable sources tell me, was initially drafted in the offices of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), calls for a whole new round of sanctions to be imposed against companies and countries doing business with Iran, notably in its mining, engineering and construction-based sectors, as well as other measures that will “increase the pressure on Iran in the days ahead.” While noting that president-elect Hassan Rouhani was “widely perceived as the most moderate of the candidates” running in last month’s election and that its outcome “reflected considerable dissatisfaction by the Iranian people with an autocratic and repressive government that has internationally isolated Iran,” it stressed that the election “unfortunately has done nothing to suggest a reversal of Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapons capacity.” “[T]here appears nothing ‘moderate’ about [Rouhani's] nuclear policies…”