United States President Obama has long had a strained relationship with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the two nations being
historically close allies. Obama’s reasoning has been straightforward: Netanyahu
is a corrupt warmonger has intentionally made his region unstable for his own
political gain. Republicans have fired back by accusing Obama of simply being
anti-Israel. But wiretaps now show that at least some republicans in congress
had an entirely different reason for siding with Netanyahu: he was bribing them
to change their votes on key issues.
In an explosive revelation, wiretaps uncovered by the Wall Street Journal
reveal that Benjamin Netanyahu reached out to republican congressmen who had
been considering voting in favor of the Iran peace deal, asking what they wanted
in return for voting against the deal. In the end, not a single republican voted
for the deal, meaning that Netanyahu’s bribes succeeded in swaying the ones who
had been on the fence. That means that not only is Netanyahu actively working to
undermine the sanctity of the United States government, the republican
congressmen involved may have committed treason under the Espionage Act.
While it’s not uncommon for members of congress to offer each other
political favors in exchange for votes on various bills, it’s an entirely
different legal matter when those offers come from a foreign head of state. Not
only were they caught accepting favors from Netanyahu in exchange for votes on
the Iran deal, they also received confidential details of the Iran negotiations
directly from Netanyahu himself. Republicans have long criticized the Obama
administration for its wiretapping of Netanyahu, but now we know why: they
didn’t want the details of their own wrongdoing to be discovered in the
process.
NSA Rats Out Republicans, Proves Netanyahu Bribed Them Against Iran Nuclear
Deal
Bipartisan Report
U.S. Spy Net on Israel Snares Congress - WSJ
NSA’s targeting of Israeli leaders swept up the content of private
conversations with U.S. lawmakers
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