More on the Spy Scandal

Juan Cole has a long post on the Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal this morning. It gets deeper and deeper and it appears that the neo-cons in the Pentagon really were working for the Likud party in Israel. The last paragraph of the Cole post should be enough to get you to read the whole thing.

Franklin's movements reveal the contours of a rightwing conspiracy of warmongering and aggression, an orgy of destruction, for the benefit of the Likud Party, of Silvio Berlusconi's business in the Middle East, and of the Neoconservative Right in the United States. It isn't about spying. It is about conspiring to conscript the US government on behalf of a foreign power or powers

Oh yes, and the Italian Military Intelligence Agency, SISMI, is also involved. As you may recall they are the folks who brought us the forged Niger Nuke documents.