Trump's jews spied on Americans for Israhell

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Shit-for-brains shabbos goy Donnie-boy promised his boss, Netanyahu, that he would destroy Iran, and part of that plot is the abandonment of the JCPOA, and, so, Donnie-boy hired jews from Israhell to spy on former US government officials, so that he could discredit them, and justify abandoning the JCPOA, which he is planning on doing for Israhell.

Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for 'dirty ops' on Iran arms deal
Israeli agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal with Tehran
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/05/trump-team-hired-spy-firm-dirty-ops-iran-nuclear-deal

Aides to Donald Trump, the US president, hired an Israeli private intelligence agency to orchestrate a "dirty ops" campaign against key individuals from the Obama administration who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal, the Observer can reveal.

People in the Trump camp contacted private investigators in May last year to "get dirt" on Ben Rhodes, who had been one of Barack Obama's top national security advisers, and Colin Kahl, deputy assistant to Obama, as part of an elaborate attempt to discredit the deal.

The extraordinary revelations come days before Trump's 12 May deadline to either scrap or continue to abide by the international deal limiting Iran's nuclear programme.

Jack Straw, who as foreign secretary was involved in earlier efforts to restrict Iranian weapons, said: "These are extraordinary and appalling allegations but which also illustrate a high level of desperation by Trump and [the Israeli prime minister] Benjamin Netanyahu, not so much to discredit the deal but to undermine those around it."

One former high-ranking British diplomat with wide experience of negotiating international peace agreements, requesting anonymity, said: "It's bloody outrageous to do this. The whole point of negotiations is to not play dirty tricks like this."

Sources said that officials linked to Trump's team contacted investigators days after Trump visited Tel Aviv a year ago, his first foreign tour as US president. Trump promised Netanyahu that Iran would never have nuclear weapons and suggested that the Iranians thought they could "do what they want" since negotiating the nuclear deal in 2015. A source with details of the "dirty tricks campaign" said: "The idea was that people acting for Trump would discredit those who were pivotal in selling the deal, making it easier to pull out of it."

According to incendiary documents seen by the Observer, investigators contracted by the private intelligence agency were told to dig into the personal lives and political careers of Rhodes, a former deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, and Kahl, a national security adviser to the former vice-president Joe Biden. Among other things they were looking at personal relationships, any involvement with Iran-friendly lobbyists, and if they had benefited personally or politically from the peace deal.

Investigators were also apparently told to contact prominent Iranian Americans as well as pro-deal journalists – from the New York Times, MSNBC television, the Atlantic, Vox website and Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper among others – who had frequent contact with Rhodes and Kahl in an attempt to establish whether they had violated any protocols by sharing sensitive intelligence. They are believed to have looked at comments made by Rhodes in a 2016 New York Times profile in which he admitted relying on inexperienced reporters to create an "echo chamber" that helped sway public opinion to secure the deal. It is also understood that the smear campaign wanted to establish if Rhodes was among those who backed a request by Susan Rice, Obama's final national security adviser, to unmask the identities of Trump transition officials caught up in the surveillance of foreign targets.

Although sources have confirmed that contact and an initial plan of attack was provided to private investigators by representatives of Trump, it is not clear how much work was actually undertaken, for how long or what became of any material unearthed.

Neither is it known if the black ops constituted only a strand of a wider Trump-Netanyahu collaboration to undermine the deal or if investigators targeted other individuals such as John Kerry, the lead American signatory to the deal. Both Rhodes and Kahl said they had no idea of the campaign against them. Rhodes said: "I was not aware, though sadly am not surprised. I would say that digging up dirt on someone for carrying out their professional responsibilities in their positions as White House officials is a chillingly authoritarian thing to do."

A spokesman for the White House's national security council offered "no comment" when approached. However, the revelations are not the first time that claims of "dirty tricks" have been aimed at the Trump camp. Special counsel Robert Mueller is leading an investigation into apparent attempts by Trump's inner-circle to dig up damaging information on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Of particular interest is a meeting involving the US president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, his brother-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chair Paul Manafort and a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer who had promised damaging information about Clinton.

Trump has repeatedly signalled his intention to scrap the Iran deal, denouncing it as "the worst deal ever." In a January speech the US president accused his predecessor of having "curried favour with the Iranian regime in order to push through the disastrously flawed Iran nuclear deal."

Last Monday, Netanyahu, accused Iran of continuing to hide and expand its nuclear weapons know-how after the 2015 deal, presenting what he claimed was "new and conclusive proof" of violations.

However, European powers including Britain responded by saying the Israeli prime minister's claims reinforced the need to keep the deal.

On Thursday the UN secretary general Antonio Guterres urged Trump not to walk away from the deal, warning that there was a real risk of war if the 2015 agreement was not preserved. The following day details emerged of some unusual shadow diplomacy by Kerry, meeting a top-ranking Iranian official in New York to discuss how to preserve the deal.

It was the second time in around two months that Kerry had met foreign minister Javad Zarif to apparently strategise over rescuing a pact they spent years negotiating during the Obama administration. On Sunday Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, will arrive in Washington, hoping to persuade Trump to keep the deal, known as the joint comprehensive plan of action (JCPOA).

Straw, who was foreign secretary between 2001 and 2006, said: "The campaign against the JCPOA has been characterised by abuse and misinformation. It is the best chance of ensuring Iran never develops a nuclear weapons programme, and it is insane to suggest abandoning the deal could do anything but endanger international security."



Trump aides hired Israeli intel firm to find dirt on Obama's Iran deal team – reports
https://www.rt.com/usa/425979-trump-iran-intel-israel/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome

US President Donald Trump's aides hired a private intelligence firm to uncover compromising info on key foreign policy advisers to Barack Obama in a bid to undermine the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, the Observer reports.

"The idea was that people acting for Trump would discredit those who were pivotal in selling the deal, making it easier to pull out of it," a source told the UK newspaper, which has published an exclusive report based on unnamed sources.

According to documents seen by the Observer, the targets included Ben Rhodes, a top national security adviser to then-US President Barack Obama, and Colin Kahl, a former deputy assistant to Obama, and VP Joe Biden's national security adviser.

The brief was to investigate the two men's "personal relationships, any involvement with Iran-friendly lobbyists, and if they had benefited personally or politically from the peace deal."

Additionally, the Israeli agency, also not named, would be charged with investigating if Obama's staff revealed any classified information as they attempted to create what Rhodes himself called an "echo-chamber" of media and political influencers who would whip up support for the deal.

The report admits that "it is not clear how much work was actually undertaken, for how long or what became of any material unearthed," and if this was just one strand of attacks on the agreement, which Trump has repeatedly called "the worst deal ever."

The White House has not denied the veracity of the documents, issuing a "no comment" in response to the UK report.

Target says wife approached by intelligence agency
Kahl has revealed a "creepy" story on his social media feed that in his view tallies with the claim that he was targeted by a foreign special ops team.

In a series of tweets, he explains that his wife was approached last year by a supposed UK benefactor who was surprisingly well-informed about her fundraising activities at her local school in the US. The person, who was represented by a professional but "shallow" website, which has since disappeared, repeatedly tried to set up a meeting. Kahl said it seemed akin to "an approach by a foreign intelligence entity."

"The fact that I even have to think about the possibility that my family was targeted by people working for the President is yet another sign of the fundamental degradation of our country that Trump has produced," the former official, who now lectures at Stanford, tweeted.

The other ostensible target, Rhodes, said that he was "not aware" of anything and called the entire undercover investigation "a chillingly authoritarian thing to do."

If such a dirt-digging investigation did take place, its most notable aspect is the choice of the foreign and private entity to carry it out. This highlights both the current administration's apparent distrust of its own security agencies, and the close alignment of views over Iran with Israel, which has expressed outrage over the accord from the start, and reportedly spied on US negotiators as it was being agreed upon.

Earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a dramatic presentation, unveiling various intelligence revelations concerning Tehran's behavior both before and after signing the deal, which he summarized as "Iran lied, big time."

Netanyahu insisted that 55,000 documents and 183 CDs of captured files show that the Islamic Republic has preserved a military nuclear program within the confines of the agreement, which restricts the scale and techniques used by its nuclear program.

The White House rushed to claim that it was sufficient proof that Tehran had "a clandestine" nuclear military program, thanking Netanyahu for the "new and compelling details." It is widely speculated that Donald Trump may decertify the deal when the next renewal deadline comes up on May 12, though members of his administration have said that no firm decision has been made yet, and have urged foreign officials to "fix" the agreement.

Iran has responded to Netanyahu's allegations by calling him a "broke and infamous liar," while President Hasan Rouhani said on Sunday that Washington will suffer "historic regret" if it walks away from the nuclear agreement.