Pro-Israel lobbyists have run an enviable “covert action” in the United States, a former top CIA analyst said. Michael Scheuer, who wrote a best-selling book criticizing the Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies last summer, while he still worked for the CIA, said the U.S.-Israel relationship was a case of the tail wagging the dog. “I just think it does America tremendous harm in the Islamic world for us to be so obviously the dog that’s led around by the tail,” Scheuer said Thursday at a Middle East Policy Council briefing in Washington. He suggested that the United States should reconsider its aid to Israel, but that such a debate was impossible because of pressure from Israel advocates.
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