All 4 parts of this subsequently censored Fox News report from December
2001
Fox News Special Report. Part One. BRIT HUME, HOST: It has been more
than 16 years since a civilian working for the Navy was charged with
passing secrets to Israel. Jonathan Pollard pled guilty to conspiracy to
commit espionage and is serving a life sentence. At first, Israeli
leaders claimed Pollard was part of a rogue operation, but later took
responsibility for his work. Now Fox News has learned some U.S.
investigators believe that there are Israelis again very much engaged in
spying in and on the U.S., who may have known things they didn't tell
us before Sept. 11. Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron has details in
the first of a four-part series."
"Since September 11, more than 60 Israelis have been arrested or
detained, either under the new patriot anti-terrorist law, or for
immigration violations. A handful of active Israeli military were among
those detained, according to investigators, who say some of the
detainees also failed polygraph questions when asked about alleged
surveillance activities against and in the United States. There is no
indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9/11 attacks, but
investigators suspect that the Israelis may have gathered intelligence
about the attacks in advance, and not shared it. A highly placed
investigator said there are 'tie-ins' ... Numerous classified documents
obtained by Fox News indicate that even prior to September 11, as many
as 140 other Israelis had been detained or arrested in a secretive and
sprawling investigation into suspected espionage by Israelis in the
United States." Carl Cameron 14Dec2001
According to Carl Cameron of Fox News -- in a series of reports that
have subsequently disappeared from the Fox News website -- in 1997 the
Israelis organized "cocaine and ecstasy trafficking, and sophisticated
white-collar credit card and computer fraud... the bad guys had the cops
beepers, cell phones, even home phones under surveillance. Some who did
get caught admitted to having hundreds of numbers and using them to
avoid arrest." An investigation revealed the Israeli crime network
possessed "extensive access to database systems to identify pertinent
personal and biographical information" of law enforcement officers. How
did a network of drug dealers get this sensitive information? "When
investigators tried to find out where the information might have come
from, they looked at Amdocs, a publicly traded firm based in Israel,"
Cameron reported. "Amdocs generates billing data for virtually every
call in America, and they do credit checks." But it seems Amdocs was
not only involved with Israeli drug dealers. "More than two dozen U.S.
intelligence, counter-intelligence, law-enforcement and other officials
have told Insight [magazine] that the FBI believes Israel has
intercepted telephone and modem communications on some of the most
sensitive lines of the U.S. government on an ongoing basis," write J.
Michael Waller and Paul Rodriguez. "The worst penetrations are believed
to be in the State Department. But others say the supposedly secure
telephone systems in the White House, Defense Department and Justice
Department may have been compromised as well. The problem for FBI agents
in the famed Division 5, however, isn't just what they have uncovered,
which is substantial, but what they don't know yet." Amdocs "helped
Bell Atlantic install new telephone lines in the White House in 1997...
[and] a senior-level employee of Amdocs had a separate T1 data phone
line installed from his base outside of St. Louis that was connected
directly to Israel... investigators are looking into whether the owner
of the T1 line had a 'real time' capacity to intercept phone calls from
both the White House and other government offices around Washington, and
sustained the line for some time, sources said. Sources familiar with
the investigation say FBI agents on the case sought an arrest warrant
for the St. Louis employee but [Clinton] Justice Department officials
quashed it." Waller and Rodriguez quoted one senior government official
as saying: "It is a politically sensitive matter. I can't comment on it
beyond telling you that anything involving Israel on this particular
matter is off-limits. It's that hot."

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