The Jewish Week 9/07/2011
Douglas Bloomfield
“I had only assumed AIPAC’s phones were being tapped until we got a visit from a job seeker claiming to be a Pentagon intelligence officer. He told my boss, one of my colleagues and me that our office phones, our home phones and probably our cars were bugged and that signals could be bounced off our office windows from several blocks away to listen in on conversations in any room with an outside window. (It didn’t occur to us to ask �So why are you sitting here in front of the window telling us all this?�)…When the Times reporter called me about the story, I told him, �I am not surprised at all to learn that the F.B.I. was listening to the Israelis. But I don’t think it’s a wise use of resources because I don’t see Israel as a threat to American security.�