Why Do The Media Give Israel Special Treatment? Imagine If Someone Spied for China... It Would Be Front Page News

Conspicuously absent from the propaganda bullshit machine this week is news that Ben Ami Kadish, an 85-year-old former US army engineer, has admitted AND PLEADED GUILTY TO passing classified military documents to Israel during the 1980s.

Kadish, who pleaded guilty to one of the four espionage-related charges he originally faced, entered the plea at a New York court on Tuesday.

He is set to be sentenced in February and could face a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

However, a US prosecutor said on Tuesday that the government would not oppose a sentence that means Kadish will not serve time in prison, the Associated Press reported.

Court papers say Kadish's alleged spying took place between 1979 and 1985, although he maintained contact with an Israeli consular official until this year. The charges alleged that the Israeli consular official, identified in the indictment as "CC-1", gave Kadish lists of classified documents to obtain from the US Army's Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Centre at the Picatinny Arsenal in the state of New Jersey.

The documents included information about nuclear weapons, fighter jets and the US Patriot missile air defence system, prosecutors say. Kadish, who worked at the arsenal from 1963-1990, kept in touch with CC-1 via telephone and email and met the official in Israel in 2004, authorities said. "CC-1" had left the US in 1985 and has never returned, the US authorities said.

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Amazing. While this was going on, Fox News and CNN have the sheeple distracted with more baloney about Blagojevich, the latest round of corporate bankruptcies and Charles Barkley's arrest for DUI.