"....Sources tell
Foreign Policy that when Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton met with Netanyahu at the King David Hotel earlier this month, such was
the concern that a certain former Mossad analyst who now serves as Netanyahu's security advisor may pose a counterintelligence problem that, after conferring with an aide,
Clinton suggested to Netanyahu that they reduce the number of people in the room.
The former analyst,
Uzi Arad, has recently headed an Israeli think tank that convenes the influential annual Herzliya strategy dialogue. Arad has been
unable to get a U.S. visa for the past two years, he has suggested, because he was identified in a 2005 indictment (though not by name) as one of the Israelis who met with then-Pentagon Iran specialist
Larry Franklin. Franklin pled guilty in 2005 on charges related to unauthorized disclosure of national-security information to people not authorized to receive it, including officials with the Israeli government.
Clinton's suggestion was made, sources say,
in the hopes that Netanyahu would get the message and excuse Arad from the meeting. What happened instead, sources report, was that
Netanyahu dismissed from the meeting Israeli ambassador to Washington Sallai Meridor, who has since announced his resignation. (An
account of the meeting previously published on ForeignPolicy.com
revealed that Clinton seemed remarkably constrained and tight-lipped during it.)...."
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