THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR
by Jay D. Homnick
March 27, 2015

….A few years ago Grant Smith, head of the Institute for Research of Mideast Policy [organizers of next month’s can’t-miss conference: The Israel Lobby, Is it Good for the US ?] , filed suit under FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) to see this report [1987 DOD assessment of Israel’s nuclear capacity]. The Department of Defense denied his request but he subsequently procured an order from a Federal district judge to release the information. Here the White House becomes the fulcrum. Technically there is a court order but practically such orders are “honored more in the breach than in the observance.” The court has no enforcement power other than fines which the White House pays out of its operating budget. Obama in particular has consistently shown he is comfortable ignoring these legalisms.  Bottom line, if Israel played nice the White House would sit on this report and let the court whistle. Instead Obama has broken protocol and for the first time the United States publicized that Israel has nuclear weapons. READ MORE