Leading US scientist may be spy for Israel

[The Caped Cod]

RTÉ News: Leading US scientist may be spy

US authorities have arrested a leading American scientist who had worked for the White House and NASA and charged him with attempted spying for Israel.

Stewart Nozette, 52, was apprehended after a sting operation involving an undercover FBI agent, the Department of Justice said, adding that there was no wrongdoing by Israel.

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

I suppose allies spying on each other is nothing new, however Stewart Nozette faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. The articel ends with this

In 1987, the United States sentenced Navy analyst Jonathan Pollard to life in prison for providing Israel -- from May 1984 to his arrest in November 1985 -- thousands of confidential military documents on US spying, particularly in Arab nations.

Israel has appealed for Pollard's release repeatedly, and in vain.

I suppose Israel can't complain though, given what they did to Mordechai Vanunu

[Interista]

Stewart Nozette, 52, was apprehended after a sting operation involving an undercover FBI agent, the Department of Justice said, adding that there was no wrongdoing by Israel.

Of course not. Israel could bomb the White House and the mugs that run the US would still say it wasn't their fault.

[The Caped Cod]

True

[odie1kanobe]

Shouldn't this be another as quite a few doing it anyway.

[mr_anderson]

Was Israel involved ?
I read those reports to mean that the person Nozette thought was an Israeli agent was simply a set-up by the FBI.

[Interista]

Anderson,

Yes, this person was part of a sting operation, but the charge on which Nozette has been arrested is 'attempted spying for Israel'.