Israeli Future National Security Advisor Banned From US For Spying
By Steve Hynd
Uzi Arad, who is expected to serve as national security adviser in the next Israeli government, has been barred from entering the United States for nearly two years on the grounds that he is an intelligence risk.
Mr. Arad, a former member and director of intelligence for the Mossad, Israel's spy service, is mentioned in the indictment of Lawrence Franklin, a former Pentagon analyst who pleaded guilty in 2005 to providing classified information about Iran in a conversation with two employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
...Israeli and U.S. officials said Mr. Arad has been denied a U.S. visa since June 2007 under section 212 3(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. This gives consular officers and the Justice Department authority to bar people who may seek "to violate any law of the United States relating to espionage or sabotage" from entering the country.
One of the people charged alongside Franklin was Steven J. Rosen, the former AIPAC apparatchik who was the co-ordinator for smear attacks on Chas Freeman for the Likudnik lobby.
The Israeli government has officially leaked through an unofficially official spokesman that "This is an issue that the new government of Israel trusts can be resolved." I wonder if Dennis Blair will have something to say about that?
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