Top U.S. Scientist Arrested in FBI Sting Attempting to Sell Nuclear Secrets to Israel

Allegations mirror those long made by FBI translator / whistleblower Sibel Edmonds...

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This is, of course, the precise sort of thing which FBI linguist-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has been alleging concerning both Turkish and Israeli interests for some time. In her case, she has testified under oath to nearly-identical behavior by U.S. scientists, military personnel and academics at top-secret nuclear and military installations who are alleged to have done precisely what Stewart David Nozette has now been busted for, as reported today by AFP…

A top American scientist who once worked for the Pentagon and the US space agency NASA was arrested Monday and charged with attempted spying for Israel, the Department of Justice said.

Stewart David Nozette, 52, developed an experiment that fueled the discovery of water on the south pole of the moon, and previously held special security clearance at the Department of Energy on atomic materials, the DOJ said.

He is charged with “attempted espionage for knowingly and willfully attempting to communicate, deliver, and transmit classified information relating to the national defense of the United States to an individual that Nozette believed to be an Israeli intelligence officer,” the DOJ said.

Nozette had been dealing with an FBI undercover agent in a sting operation, the department said, adding there was no wrongdoing by Israel.

“The conduct alleged in this complaint is serious and should serve as a warning to anyone who would consider compromising our nation’s secrets for profit,” said David Kris, assistant attorney general for national security.

“From 1989 through 2006, Nozette held security clearances as high as top secret and had regular, frequent access to classified information and documents related to the US national defense,” the Justice Department said.

“In addition, Nozette allegedly offered to reveal additional classified information that directly concerned nuclear weaponry, military spacecraft or satellites, and other major weapons systems,” DOJ said.

In addition to allegations against a network of moles said to be based at U.S. nuclear weapons facilities, Edmonds has also fingered current and former members of Congress, such as Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Dan Burton (R-IN), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Stephen Solarz (D-NY) and Tom Lantos (D-CA, deceased), as well as high-ranking Pentagon and State Dept. officials such as Marc Grossman, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, as having participated, via bribery and blackmail schemes, in related espionage with Turkish and Israeli interests.

Despite several high profile front-page features on all of this in the UK Sunday Times last year (here, here and here), Edmonds’ recent sworn deposition on these matters, a recent cover-story interview in American Conservative magazine, and an 18-year FBI executive officer corroborating key elements of her story and calling for a “Special Counsel” to investigate and prosecute, the U.S. corporate mainstream media have failed to report on the Edmonds story at all since she was finally allowed to speak about these matters in August following seven years of gag orders from the Bush Administration’s invocation of the so-called “State Secrets Privilege.”

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  1. 1)
    TreeTop007 said on 10/20/2009 @ 2:47am PT: [Permalink]

    A Jew traitor(Ben-Ami Kadish) admitted to giving Yosef Yagur(Jonathan Pollard’s very same handler)Nuclear WEAPON, Patriot Missile, and F-15 secrets.

    He gets a $50,000 fine for selling out the his own country.

    The traitors reply to the Judge after being fined…’No problem.’
    http://abcnews.go.com/images/Th..._Complaint.pdf

  2. 2)
    Ed Encho said on 10/20/2009 @ 3:33am PT: [Permalink]

    I will be impressed when they start hauling in some of the traitors in Congress and the neocons like Perle and Feith.

    EE

  3. 4)
    Erich Gibbs said on 10/20/2009 @ 7:50am PT: [Permalink]

    [ed note: No, Erich, the link works fine, even if it doesn’t show the whole long string. –99]

  4. 6)
    karen from illinois said on 10/20/2009 @ 9:43am PT: [Permalink]

    so is this a token bust or a step in the right direction?

    i would love to see carol lam tapped as special prosecutor

    http://thinkprogress.org/2007/0...m-white-house/

    from the article

    The media reports this morning that among Lam’s politically powerful targets were former CIA official Kyle “Dusty” Foggo and then-House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-CA). But there is evidence to believe that the White House may also have been on Lam’s target list. Here are the connections:

    ““ Washington D.C. defense contractor Mitchell Wade pled guilty last February to paying then-California Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham more than $1 million in bribes.

    ““ Wade’s company MZM Inc. received its first federal contract from the White House. The contract, which ran from July 15 to August 15, 2002, stipulated that Wade be paid $140,000 to “provide office furniture and computers for Vice President Dick Cheney.”

    ““ Two weeks later, on August 30, 2002, Wade purchased a yacht for $140,000 for Duke Cunningham. The boat’s name was later changed to the “Duke-Stir.” Said one party to the sale: “I knew then that somebody was going to go to jail for that”¦Duke looked at the boat, and Wade bought it “” all in one day. Then they got on the boat and floated away.”

    ““ According to Cunningham’s sentencing memorandum, the purchase price of the boat had been negotiated through a third-party earlier that summer, around the same time the White House contract was signed.

    T recap, the White House awarded a one-month, $140,000 contract to an individual who never held a federal contract. Two weeks after he got paid, that same contractor used a cashier’s check for exactly that amount to buy a boat for a now-imprisoned congressman at a price that the congressman had pre-negotiated.

  5. 8)
    Leyla said on 10/20/2009 @ 6:20pm PT: [Permalink]

    Brad, you did especially well conveying the outrageousness of the situation here–succinct listing of a set of facts that just do not add up no matter how one looks at it. Thanks for your efforts to keep writing about Sibel against the deafening silence. Is there any way at all to explain this to a semi-rational mind?!?

  6. 9)
    Doug said on 10/20/2009 @ 6:52pm PT: [Permalink]

    If someone objects to the racist, apartheid policies of the Jewish State, they are labeled “anti-semitic”. If someone notices and mentions discrepancies in the official Holocaust ™ story, such as how the sacred “6 million” number hasn’t changed, despite the reduction in Auschwitz official numbers from 4 million to 1-1.5 million, they are labeled “anti-semitic”. If someone notices that our supposed friends in the Jewish State are heavily involved in espionage against us and sell our military secrets to China, they are labeled “anti-semitic”.

    So, tell me, what’s so wrong with being labeled “anti-semitic”? Sounds like it is a badge of honor in recognition of one’s morality and ability to see the obvious.

  7. 10)
    fred said on 10/20/2009 @ 8:04pm PT: [Permalink]

    What I find interesting re Edmonds narrative is corroboration with other information about 911 and the NeoCons. There were evidently cells within the U S, British, Israeli and other governments in collusion, having the same effect of overruling their intelligence agencies to get their goals accomplished. It looks as though we had U S, British, Israeli and other agents trying to prevent 911 and the war against Iraq, and agents in these same agencies working to enable them.

  8. 11)
    Tommy|ymmoT said on 10/21/2009 @ 9:44am PT: [Permalink]

    {Ed Note: Racist comment deleted. Racist, homophobic wingnut user known as “TreeTop007” and “Tommy|ymmoT” and “IcebergSlim” now banned for repeated violations of BRAD BLOG commenting rules in using multiple names to post. – BF}

  9. 12)
    Cascadiance said on 10/21/2009 @ 10:31am PT: [Permalink]

    Karen,

    Unfortunately, Carol Lam was rather QUICKLY hired on as Qualcomm’s Senior Vice President and Legal Counsel right after she left her prosecutor position when she indicted Dusty Foggo and Brent Wilkes. Done right about the time when a few Dems were looking at the idea of hiring her back as an independent contractor to follow up on the prosecutions she was working on.

    Perhaps coincidentally, or perhaps not so coincidentally, Brent Scowcroft, serves on the board of Qualcomm, as well as the board of the American Turkish Council (ATC).

    Probably would be difficult to hire her away from that position.

  10. 13)
    IcebergSlim said on 10/21/2009 @ 4:01pm PT: [Permalink]

    {Ed Note: Racist comment deleted. Racist, homophobic wingnut user known as “TreeTop007” and “Tommy|ymmoT” and “IcebergSlim” now banned for repeated violations of BRAD BLOG commenting rules in using multiple names to post. – BF}

  11. 14)
    Cascadiance said on 10/21/2009 @ 4:19pm PT: [Permalink]

    IcebergSlim,

    When you and treetop say that Ban-Ami Kadish is a ‘Jew traitor’, you are implying that he’s traitor to the “Jew” religion, which if you want to be more accurate and not slurring it, you would refer to him as a ‘JewISH traitor’, if you wanted to make him out to be a traitor to his JewISH religion.

    But no, you are saying that he is a “Jew betraying his country”. WHICH country, the U.S., or Israel? THOSE are countries. There is no country named “Jew”. Therefore one can only conclude that “Jew” as you and Treetop use it is an ADDITIONAL adjective besides Kadish’s country used to denigrate him as a slur on his religion.

    Now he might be an AMERICAN traitor, which I don’t think Brad would have necessarily taken issue with, if you have an honest reason to feel that he’s betrayed America, which many here, perhaps including myself might feel. But there’s no reason to use religious slurs when none are necessary. It just gives those who are trying to have honest criticism of these foreign country lobbies and those that are abusing their power in our government with them a bad name.

    You don’t call other traitors here like Bush a “Christ-lover” traitor do you? He might be a traitor too, which I feel there’s a good argument for saying, but I wouldn’t use that terminology if I wanted to get others to hear what I am saying for the RIGHT reasons, and not for other reasons that appeals to other emotions instead of logic.

  12. 15)
    IcebergSlim said on 10/21/2009 @ 4:33pm PT: [Permalink]

    {Ed Note: Racist comment deleted. Racist, homophobic wingnut user known as “TreeTop007” and “Tommy|ymmoT” and “IcebergSlim” now banned for repeated violations of BRAD BLOG commenting rules in using multiple names to post. – BF}

  13. 20)
    Mole said on 10/26/2009 @ 10:59am PT: [Permalink]

    It is no secret that the U.S. government is full of spies for Israel but the heavily Zionist influenced press does not cover these things for obvious reasons.

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