Did Dickie Commit a Crime?

A number of weeks ago, anti-Israel blogger Richard Silverstein expressed his satisfaction at Rachel Neuwirth’s libel claim against him being dismissed by the Los Angeles Superior Court (http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2011/08/19/court-dismisses-neuwirth-libel-claim/).

But the joy may be short-lived, because if my spidey senses prove to be correct, Silverstein is now on record as admitting to a crime.

Is this Dickie's swan song (or should that be sarong song)?

When Shamai K. Leibowitz, an F.B.I. translator, was sentenced to 20 months in prison last year for leaking classified information to a blogger, prosecutors revealed little about the case. They identified the blogger in court papers only as “Recipient A.” After Mr. Leibowitz pleaded guilty, even the judge said he did not know exactly what Mr. Leibowitz had disclosed.

Now the reason for the extraordinary secrecy surrounding the Obama administration’s first prosecution for leaking information to the news media seems clear: Mr. Leibowitz, a contract Hebrew translator, passed on secret transcripts of conversations caught on F.B.I. wiretaps of the Israeli Embassy in Washington. Those overheard by the eavesdroppers included American supporters of Israel and at least one member of Congress, according to the blogger, Richard Silverstein.

In his first interview about the case, Mr. Silverstein offered a rare glimpse of American spying on a close ally.

He said he had burned the secret documents in his Seattle backyard after Mr. Leibowitz came under investigation in mid-2009, but he recalled that there were about 200 pages of verbatim records of telephone calls and what seemed to be embassy conversations. He said that in one transcript, Israeli officials discussed their worry that their exchanges might be monitored.

Obstruction of justice?

Here’s hoping Dickie needs to change the name of his blog from “Repairing The World” to “Picking Up The Soap.”

Update: It gets better (hat tip: Victor)

17 thoughts on “Did Dickie Commit a Crime?”

      1. lead counsel for the ism

        guy never shouldve gotten a security clearance….so how did he?

        dickie didnt find leibowitz, leibowitz found him….through contacts in israel…same contacts that pass dickie everything

        dickie is a doop

  1. many questions in the case, that the fbi was really good at stifling

    how did leibowitz, a known anti israel activist, who had represented terrorists and terrosist affiliates, (barghoutti and ism) ever get a gig with the fbi…no way this guy couldve passed a security check

    dickie is a rabid liar….especially when it comes to events dealing with himself

    honestly…the man is stupid, but stupid enough to admit to a crime that would bring serious jail time? not on your life

    fbi had to investigate….remember all the rumors about dickie being investigated for kiddie porn…well it seems there was some truth in his being visited by the fbi

    definite obstruction if he destroyed evidence…i dont believe he ever got it….dont think liebowtiz actually passed him anything….but we will see

    what we do know is that someone is trying to embarrass obama, the fbi and israel, in one fell swoop

    who?

    now what is really bad is that the nyt reporter has rushed the article to print…does no background checking on dickie or his blog (my gosh, didnt even check the translation of tikum olam…."he says…") labels dickie a liberal jew….doesnt check the internets for the reams of info showing how disturbed dickie really is, and how easily he is caught in a lie

    if im from the right….i start an in depth ariticle….expose dickie, and destroy the times

    1. The reader comments to the LA Times story, which has the same lack of context as the NYT, include many saying this is "another" Israeli "spy" operation, reflecting the total lack of understanding of the players that waltkovacs describes.

  2. On Rosh Hashanah will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur will be sealed how many will pass from the earth and how many will be created; who will live and who will die; who will die at his predestined time and who before his time; who by water and who by fire, who by sword, who by beast, who by famine, who by thirst, who by storm, who by plague, who by strangulation, and who by stoning. Who will rest and who will wander, who will live in harmony and who will be harried, who will enjoy tranquillity and who will suffer, who will be impoverished and who will be enriched, who will be degraded and who will be exalted

    and if you are dickie….too late to do teshuva…rot in prison, you piece of dirt

  3. From the post “Larry Derfner Fired by Jerusalem Post” (August 29th, now beyond the front page):

    Johnny S: “Freedom of speech/freedom of press is fine. But why should the JPost fund hate speech and inciting to murder of Israeli civilians? JPost made a wise decision in letting this excuse for journalism go home”

    Richard Silverstein: “{quoting Johnny S}why should the JPost fund hate speech and inciting to murder of Israeli civilians?{unquote} I don’t know where you live but if you live in most western countries & even in Israel these ideas are heard in the media virtually every day. Those would be truly free media as opposed to JPost.”

    I stumbled upon this the other day. There were no words then, there still are no words now.

    1. He's Yeshayahu's grandson? Well, it doesn't all run in the family – His great-aunt Nechama was a scholar and a saint.

      Cool first name, though. Shammai the elder is way underrated.

      Here's a suggestion. The U.S. intelligence community, which has a known anti-Israel component, did not trust Jews with Israeli-related information. So they got someone known to be anti-Israel, and got exactly what they deserved.

      Why is our embassy being tapped?

  4. dickie has finally posted about the leak…kinda

    its basically a post for all his jew hating sycophants to pat him on the back and for him to crow about being interviewed and to point out that haaretz got some of the story wrong

    he and liebowitz are not whistle blowers…nothing that ive seen released points to crimes or anything of the sort

    i once was a whistle blower on a non profit that i worked for…i lost my job…and for good reason

    they were a foster care agency that was placing children at risk….they ultimately were forced out of biz

    dickie has some fantasy that israel was poised to attack iran….still hasnt happened…probably will never happen

    and if he felt that he was doing right…why did he destroy the docs and pull all the blog posts?

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